Department of Cinematic Arts

the
page for
facility resources

 

Editing:

There are nine editing rooms: three are also used for 16mm editing and have editing benches with rewinds, one of which has a flatbed Steenbeck editing table. Seven rooms are dedicated to digital editing. Three of these rooms have Mac G-4 work stations running Final Cut Pro 4.5 and two additional rooms are powered with Mac G-5 work stations running FCP 6 Suite II. For advanced students and faculty there is the coveted Duo-Core Pentium Mac Running FCP 6 Suite II and Avid. 

Cameras:

16mm: five (5) Bolex HP cameras outfitted with 25, 50 and 75 mm lenses.  We also have 3 Arriflex "s" cameras that are in technically available for rent but in need of service.

Additionally, seven (7) working Sony pd 100 dv-cam cameras for standard definition digital filming and 4 Sony HDv cameras for 720i Hi-Def filming.  These cameras have a variety of tripods, microphones stands and booms for audio recording.

Check-Out Regulations and Procedures:

The standard check out time is a two-night check out. For example, if a camera is checked out Monday, it is due back Wednesday.  It is strongly suggested to reserve equipment.  A student can reserve equipment twice in one week but there has to be a block in between each reservation/checkout; i.e. if a student reserves a camera for Monday check out with a Wednesday return, s/he can reserve again for a Friday check out with a Monday return. If a student fails to pick up his equipment the DAY s/he reserves it for, the equipment is released as first come, first serve check out.  Meaning, if a student reserves a camera for Friday-Monday but doesn't come to pick it Up Friday night; the reservation is released and anyone can check out the camera Saturday.

Editing:  Students can sign up for one two hour block of editing time a day.  If there is no one reserved to edit after their two hour block is up, they may stay and continue editing until the next student shows up for his reservation.  If they are more than 15 minutes late for their editing time, they lose their block and anyone can sign in.

All students have to be enrolled in a production class to check out equipment.  On rare occasions, a faculty member can request equipment privileges for a student; we will honor the faculty member's request but the student has to pay the lab fee.

If there are any questions regarding this page, please use the contact information below or contact the Technical Coordinator, James Roy at jasroy@unm.edu.

View of CAGE, located in CERIA

 

 

 

Other Facilities available for use by Students at the UNM campus:

 

ArtsLab:

While ARTS Lab activities take place throughout UNM and the surrounding community, the heart of ARTS Lab is our "Digital Media Garage," a black box space outfitted to support performance, experimentation and research in digital graphics, sound, and realtime immersive projection systems. The 'Garage' includes a 15' diameter hemispheric domed projection surface (the G-Dome), a Vicon Motion Capture system, 30' x 40' Green Screen Studio, AV production suite and more. ARTS Lab also supports computer labs in several locations on the UNM campus or affiliated with UNM, including labs in Art, Music, Cinematic Arts, Photography, Theater and Dance, Communication & Journalism and Continuing Education.

Art Studio Building:

Many Cinematic Arts students receive their minor in Art & Art History. They have been able to enrich and broaden their learning and production with not only the resources of the art history classes, but the facilities housed in the New Art Building. In these classes, students may use the facilities offered by photography, sculpture, small metals, ceramics, paintings, and drawing.

Fine Arts and Design Library:

A branch of the university libraries, the Fine Arts Library houses over 200,000 items including books, periodicals, art exhibition catalogs, music scores, sound recordings, videos, as well as several collections of rare and unique works in the fine arts. This is all enclosed in the large, luminous fourth floor of the George Pearlman Hall. Material within this collection is available for use within the library to all who have an interest in them. For film researching questions please contact, David Herzel 277.0280 dherzel@unm.edu.

Gus Blaisdell Reading Room: This room is within the Department of Cinematic Arts and created in honor of Gus Blaisdell. We are currently processing these books, and will have a list of available titles online within time. Currently we house roughly 800 books, magazines, and catalogues. This room offers a quiet place for faculty and staff to relax and meet.

Student Lounge: Within the CERIA Building we house a Student Lounge complete with lockers available for student check-out, couches and chairs, refrigerator, a computer with internet capabilities, a quiet place to study, and access to subscriptions to magazines like American Cinematographer, International Cinematographers Guild, Script, as well a numerous donated publications.

Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media (IFDM):

The IFDM Facilities are still being redesigned and purchased, but the goals are that by 2009 they will have two 24-seat computer teaching labs, with a 24-hour drop-in lab available to IFDM students. This program will also have cameras and sound equipment available for check-out. Their facilities will work in concert with High Performance Computing Center and the teaching facilities at Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Soon, this will be networked with the Mesa del Sol facilities planning to be housed south of the Sunport.