Studio E

Drama / L.E. Studio of approximately 6,000 square feet, with audience seating for up to 300 people on a tiered rostra (with camera tower behind).

The studio has six Sony HD cameras with a mix of lightweight and studio lenses, peds, tripods and a Jimmy Jib.

There is fibre optic infrastructure and cabling for up to 8 HD cameras, with 6 permanently available.

The Saturation Lighting Grid has 350 Lighting Channels under DMX control (from floor or gallery). All lights are mounted on remotely controlled electric hoists.

The studio comes with four dressing rooms, a hospitality room, a wardrobe and laundry room and a make-up and hair salon.

There is a scenic lift and a construction / set finishing area. Production Offices are also available.

There is also a conference room / viewing theatre, with online HD projection and 7.1 surround sound audio.

The studio comes with three large galleries – production, sound and engineering.

The production gallery has a Kayak 3ME HD vision mixer (with integrated video server), a Pixel Power Clarity HD Graphics computer, and highly flexible talkback and communications from RTS Telex.

The sound gallery is equipped with a Calrec Alpha Bluefin digital desk, with up to 450 channels, and equipped for live surround sound recording and monitoring, making the studio an equally impressive sound and music stage as well as a full TV production studio.

There is a separate dedicated VTR area, with recording to HDCam SR, HDCam, Digi Beta and DVC Pro. Other formats are available, and of course, direct ingest to server for tapeless work flow.