Welcome to the San Diego State University's Television, Film, and New Media (TFM) program. We are home to a wide range of performance and production facilities designed to enhance the educational experience.
Equipment Checkout houses a full complement of production gear including industry standard digital cameras as well as a 16mm film camera, studio lights, location lighting kits, grip and gaffing support gear including several grip and mounting kits, a pneumatic dolly, doorway dolly, digital audio recorders, and digital sound effects libraries. The cinema cameras include Arri Amira, Canon C300II, Sony FS7II, and Blackmagic 6K cameras.
Studio C stands as a “shell” equipped with 300 amps of electrical power and a scene dock with a variety of flats used to create sets. Advanced and graduate student filmmakers use Studio C to build free-standing sets for single-camera style shoots.
Located in the Communication Building, Studio A has two full-time support engineers. The studio is outfitted with a Master Control area, three studio pedestal-mounted studio cameras, an automated lighting console, Mole-Richardson lighting, an audio control suite with digital audio console, state-of-the-art digital switcher, chroma-key wall and CG.
The Post Production facility includes one room dedicated to ADR and foley sound work. This room includes a Pro Tools TDM system, and is acoustically engineered for voice-over recording and ADR work. Each editing room in the post facility is equipped with Apple G5 quad processor hardware and Apple Final Cut Studio Suite. These computers also include the Adobe Creative Suite and many other applications relevant to production work. Additionally, there are several rooms outfitted with Pro Tools, including one high-end Pro Tools TDM System with 24-bit sound and a robotically controlled external mixing board (a Mackie HUI). Software is being continuously updated and expanded.
The Computer Lab is equipped with 20 Macintosh Quad processor G5 computers. This lab supports the new TFM Maya Animation,Editing and After Effects Compositing curriculum.