FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

The CFS main facility is a 25,000 square foot building. The main studio, a 4000 square foot sound stage, includes three Thompson BTS digital cameras with Canon studio lenses, teleprompters, and Vinten MK V heads with tern type pedestals. At one end of the studio a cyclorama is available for green screen photography. A $300,000 Desisti lighting grid controlled by an INSight Lighting Board hangs over the entire stage.

There is a high-end digital router room going into Profiles Digital Disk Recorders, five Digital Beta decks, an online and studio control room, a digital sound room, two nonlinear edit rooms and a graphics room all with deck controls, and connected with 601 uncompressed digital signal. (The facility has 115,000 cable connections and 190 miles of cable!) A portable Sony DVW 700 WS D-Beta camera with mic and lighting kit completes the package.