Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg offers you comprehensive, state-of-the-art technical equipment. Productions at the Filmakademie have access to industry-standard equipment at a professional level, especially for project studies.
The Filmakademie provides up-to-date mobile film and sound equipment for all student productions from its equipment store. Students in the main course of study, in particular, have access to a large selection of digital film technology for their projects that meets current industry standards.
Staff from the Mobile Technology department will advise you on all technical and safety issues. They coordinate and organise the mobile production technology for camera, sound and lighting. The department is responsible for the provision, control and maintenance of the camera, lighting and stage equipment.
If necessary, the employees will instruct you in the use of the equipment in the hire park and advise you on the practical use of the products.
The Jochen Kuhn Studio is a classic recording studio for film projects with 23 bar light hangers, 6 spotlights, 3 projection hoists, curtain system (black, blue, green), control system and lighting desk.
The Albrecht Ade Studio is a multifunctional studio that can also be used for events and presentations. The technical equipment includes 34 rod light hangers, 16 point hoists, curtain system (Black, Blue, Green), curtain lowering station, media telescope, control system, lighting control desk and presentation technology.
The technical requirements and options are discussed and determined in a project-specific planning meeting between employees and students.
Worlds are created here
In the workshop, students' designs are realised as models or in original size.
The workshop is mainly focussed on woodworking. Panel saws, sliding table saws, cross-cut saws, band saws and the most important small machines are available and can be used by the scenography students after thorough instruction.
Surface work can also be carried out (painting, patina, covering, etc.).
The workshop management provides advice on feasibility, construction, choice of materials and costing.
Our students use the editing systems for teaching and practice purposes as well as for editing film projects. For offline video editing, fully-equipped editing rooms with Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro editing systems are available in the Lubitsch building. Video data can be saved locally or on the Avid NEXIS storage system.
There are numerous tape machines and DVD recorders in the transfer room with which tapes can be copied and played in and out.
The video editing systems in the transfer room (Media Composer, Premiere, Resolve) can be used to play out to or ingest from tape, and ingest systems are available for file-based workflows. All systems in the transfer room are connected to the Avid storage systems and can be used for work steps such as import, export, transcode and DVD or Blu-ray creation.
Furthermore, playback and copying devices for DVD and Blu-ray are available.
In addition to three midi suites, you have a large recording studio for music recordings, five Pro Tools suites and a film sound mixer at your disposal.
Film mixing
DOLBY ATMOS 36 channels, THX-capable, Pro Tools 12.4 HDX2 System Mac OSX 10.10.5, 2*2.4 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon, 32GB RAM with Video-Satellite System (2nd computer), ICON D-Control mixing console 32 channels, Waves Mercury-Bundle, Altiverb, Speakerphone, Iosono Anymix Pro, Soundminer via server. Original JBL cinema monitors, room acoustics designed and calibrated according to THX and Dolby Atmos Theatre specifications. Full HD projection on cinema screen.
Music mixing with large recording studio
with variable acoustics for music, speech and sound recording. Post-synchronisation with indoor/outdoor acoustics. Analogue 5.1-channel ADT MT5 mixing console 32-channel, various outboard equipment, Pro Tools 12.4 HDX system Mac OSX 10.10.5, Waves Diamond restoration & 360° surround bundle. Complete DS taker and dubbing system for post-synchronisation. Projection on screen. THX-capable MK-Sound monitoring system. Room acoustics in accordance with IRT specifications
Three Pro Tools DOLBY ATMOS suites, two additional Pro Tools HD suites
Pro Tools 12.4 HD 3 System Mac OSX 10.10.5, Waves Diamond Restoration & 360° Surround Bundle, Altiverb, Speakerphone, Iosono Anymix Pro, Soundminer via Server, 7.1.4 Genelec 8030 & 7050B monitors. A Pro Tools HD Suite is equipped with DS-Taker.
On the ground floor of the Ludwigsburg Stadtbad, the students' productions receive their finishing touches. Here, in the digital post-production department, the individual contributions from the various departments come together and are brought into their final and submission format.
In a total of 4 suites, students can grade, finish and master on modern computer systems. A calibrated monitor setup is available for the various requirements.
All systems are equipped with AVID MC, various Adobe products and DaVinci Resolve software for color grading. Grading with DaVinci Resolve is simplified with a corresponding control panel. All suites are provided with 5.1 audio. In addition, the systems for DCP creation, the current cinema standard for up to 4K and Dolby ATMOS, are integrated in two of these suites.
A screening room with a 100” display and seating for up to 12 people is available for all departments.
In the future, a fixed installation in another, specially designed room will allow users to take their own steps in virtual production. This room combines technology and creativity with a 4x2 meter LED wall and a motion capturing unit with 24 cameras.
In the Research & Development (R&D) department at Animationsinstitut, researchers, engineers and artists work together to develop future technologies for film, animation, VFX and XR immersive media.
A major focus is on artificial intelligence and the development of ecologically sustainable technologies that are pioneering in film and media production.
The Caligari cinema offers both classic analogue film projection (35mm) and digital 4K video projection with the following playback options: Server with DCP for 2D and 3D, HDCAM, DigiBeta, Beta Sp, Blu-ray. The cinema is certified for DOLBY ATMOS.
DCP can be delivered to the cinema via upload and hard drive. Other file formats can be played via a central playback server (Clipsterplay). On request and after prior testing, computers/laptops can also be fed into the cinema.
During the week, the cinema is exclusively available to the Filmakademie for internal use during the day, e.g., for screenings and teaching events. In the evenings and at weekends, the arthouse cinema provider Kinokult e.V. uses the Caligari cinema for public screenings.
