Cable Studios
The School of Communication has two fully-equipped digital television studios and control rooms that are used for producing UMTV programs as well as teaching video production and broadcast journalism courses. They are located in the Cable Studio facilities off the Wolfson building main lobby.
Studio B
Studio B is a working newsroom as well as a permanent news studio. NewsVision, SportsDesk, We the Students, and news specials are all produced in this studio. This facility also houses all broadcast journalism classes. Studio B is 30' by 30' and is equipped with three Sony SDI cameras with Teleprompter and a green screen. Its Control Room has three Panasonic 50'' plasma monitors, a Grass Valley Kayak 3 ME switcher, and a Grass Valley Concerto SD router.
Control Room B also includes WheatStone D7 Mixing consul, Sony DSR 2000 DV decks, Avid Deco and Thunder graphics systems, Weather Central System and a Clearcom intercom system.
Studio C
Studio C is our major production studio for non-news programs such as Off the Wire, Canes Eye View, and The Slate. It also houses all video production classes. Studio C is 30' by 45' and is equipped with three Sony SDI cameras, green screen and a light dimmer board.
Control Room C also includes a Grass Valley Kayak 3 ME switcher, and Grass Valley Concerto SD router, Avid Pinnacle graphics machine with two graphic outputs and animation capabilities, a Clearcom intercom system, and three 50-inch plasma monitors.
Master Control
The master control room houses all of the hardware and mainframe units that both studio B and C connect to. It also has the satellite receivers for both the PathFire CNN news feed used by broadcast journalism classes and the MTV-U satellite feed which is sent to Comcast Cable where it is integrated into UMTV, channel 96.
Uplink Studio and Control Room
We have a fully equipped uplink studio equipped with a Grass Valley Indigo 10 input switcher with audio control, a Mackie audio mixer, a Grass Valley M Series Server, a Deko 1000 graphics machine, Clear Com intercom stations, two Ikegami camera systems 32 pin cable , one with teleprompter, Telos audio dial-in system for IFB, a 42-inch plasma screen, and a Brightline fluorescent light system with DMX dimming.
Editing Suites
All edit suites have the ability to route video sources to and from their location.
Bill Cosford Cinema
The Bill Cosford Cinema provides an educational and cultural resource for the University of Miami and the community it serves, by programming a wide variety of contemporary, classic and foreign films in a classic wide screen format, and by hosting lectures from renowned actors and directors.
Named the best art cinema by the Miami New Times, the Cosford is also used as a setting for lecture series and renowned film events. Stars like Kevin Spacey, Richard Gere, Mike Wallace, John Landis and UM alumni Ray Liotta and have taken the modest stage to discuss a range of topics.
As a state-of-the-art screening facility the 240-seat Bill Cosford Cinema is capable of showing all traditional film formats as well as electronic video formats including high-definition. The Cosford shows films the way they were meant to be seen – on the wide screen and in 35mm.
For more information on the Bill Cosford Cinema visit: www.cosfordcinema.com
Film Sound Stage
Located next to cable studios B and C the School of Communication's sound stage is a 40' by 40' space fully equipped with grip and lighting equipment for motion picture production.
The space includes a permanent 18' H by 23' L Cyc wall for green screen shots, black curtain for full stage, steel pipe grid and two 200 amp power distribution boxes. All equipment for sound stage use can be checked out from the School of Communication's equipment room in room 1014 of the Frances L. Wolfson building. Lights such as: 10K mole baby, 5K mole baby, 4K soft, and 4K supper soft are kept in the sound stage for student use.
The sound stage is used by undergraduate and graduates for film projects and also as a teaching space for production courses.
Computer Labs
The School of Communication's computer facilities include several labs for both classroom and non-classroom use. The Macintosh labs in the Frances L. Wolfson building, rooms 3032 and 3033 and the PC labs in rooms 3034 and 3035 are open for use to Communication students or students taking Communication courses and are for support of instructional class room use. These labs are designed to mirror each other as closely as possible in software applications.
Additionally, the new School of Communication International Building houses a 21-station Macintosh and 21-station PC lab designed specifically for non-instructional student use.
Virtual handouts are available for a variety of application, ranging from electronic mail to class mailing lists to web development.
Post-Production Resources
The School of Communication International Building houses 24-hour access post production facilities with Avid Symphony Nitris editing stations, Pro-Tools audio lab, ProTools HD mixing stations and a Foley stage.
In addition, the school has 24 editing stations. Supported editing platforms: Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro.
Additional Facilities
- Digital Photography Studio
- Digital Audio Lab
- Digital News Bureau
- Animation Studio
- Teleconference Facility
- HD, 35mm, Digital, Super 16mm, 16mm cameras
- Sidney and Dorothy Head Reading and Resource Room
- Production Management Office with Computers, Phones, Fax, Printers, and Meeting Space
- SoC Career Connection
- Common Ground "Courtyard"
- Class and Seminar Rooms
- Multi-Media Convergence Lab
- 3000+ Titles Moving Image Archives
