Facilities - Wood Norton

Our training centre offers industry standard studio, post-production and location facilities. You can book these for additional hands-on practice after classroom-based sessions.

Two fully operational, 4-camera television studios, both 16:9 widescreen capable, with full production lighting, cyclorama backings, stereo sound and autocue. One smaller 2-camera studio.

Four network radio studios, with full outside source, telephone balance and routing facilities and Radioman & VCS Dira radio playout systems.

Floor area of 220 square metres, Philips cameras, Vinten camera mounts, high-level lighting grid with motorised barrels, lamps by Sachtler, Arri and Strand, moving lights by Martin Professional, ADB Vision 10 lighting console, Grass Valley GVG200-2 vision mixer with 4 chromakey keyers.

Combined Production and Lighting/Vision Control room with a separate sound control room.

Floor area of 60 square metres, fixed cyclorama and lighting by Videssence, including chromakey.

Floor area of 240 square metres, Thomson cameras, mounts by Vinten and Sachtler, pantograph-based grid with Berkey dual-source lamps.

Separate production, lighting/vision and sound control rooms.

One 3-machine edit suites using Betacam SP, Digital Betacam DVCAM and DVCPRO, Seven non linear edit suites using AVID Symphony, Avid Express, Pinnacle Liquid Edition, Adobe Video Collection, graphics by Aston, and Pixel Power.

Facilities can be dry hired, contact us for details.

Digital audio recording and editing on SADiE, SonicSolutions, CoolEdit PRO, DAVE2000, ProTools, MiniDisc, DAT, CD, TASCAM 8 track.

Self-contained network of PC workstations, with current internet audio applications.

Four widescreen shooting kits, recording on Betacam SP, and DVCAM, cameras by Panasonic, Sony and Ikegami.

Portable lighting including Blondes, Redheads, Sachtler reporter kits, Arri grip gear, HMIs, Kinoflo and Dedo lights. Professional tripods with track and dolly system.