Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg offers its students comprehensive, state-of-the-art technical equipment. Productions at the Filmakademie have access to the kind of production equipment that is standard in the industry, especially for project studies.
In all areas relevant to production technology, such as recording technology, studios, post-production, presentation technology, and cinema technology, a dedicated team constantly monitors the market, adds to the range on offer and adapts the equipment to current developments.
The Filmakademie provides the latest mobile film and sound equipment for all student productions from its technical warehouse. Student productions in the main study programme have access to a large selection of digital film technology that meets the latest industry standards.
Staff from the Mobile Technology department advise students on technical and safety issues. They coordinate and organise the mobile production technology camera, sound and lighting. The department is responsible for the provision, control and maintenance of the camera, as well as lighting and stage equipment.
If necessary, the personnel instruct students in the use of the equipment in the hire park and advise them on the practical use of the products.
The Jochen Kuhn Studio is a classic recording studio for film projects with 23 rod light hangers, 6 point hoists, 3 leaflet hoists, curtain system (black, blue, green), control system, and lighting desk.
The Albrecht Ade Studio is a multifunctional film 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.
In the workshop, the 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 production design students after detailed 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.
Students use the editing systems for teaching and practice purposes as well as for editing film projects. Fully-equipped editing rooms with Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro editing systems are available for offline video editing in the Lubitsch building.
Video data can be saved locally or on the Avid NEXIS storage system.
TRANSFER ROOM
There are numerous tape machines and DVD recorders in the transfer room with which tapes can be copied and ingested and played out.
The video editing systems in the transfer room (Media Composer, Premiere, Resolve) can be used to play out to or ingest from tape. 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.
In addition, playback and copying devices for DVD and Blu-ray are available.
There are 7 studios available:
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, voice 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 and 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 further Pro Tools HD suites, Pro Tools 12.4 HD 3 System Mac OSX 10.10.5, Waves Diamond Restoration and 360° Surround bundle, Altiverb, Speakerphone, Iosono Anymix Pro, Soundminer via server, 7.1.4 Genelec 8030 and 7050B monitoring systems. 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.
The Caligari cinema enables 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 prior request and after a test, computers/laptops can be played as well.
During the day, on weekdays, the cinema is exclusively available for internal use by the Filmakademie. In the evenings and at weekends, the arthouse cinema provider Kinokult e.V. uses the Caligari for public screenings.
