ATLAS Fact Sheet

ATLAS Building Equipment

Following includes equipment details and production specifics for the ATLAS building "black box" performance center, the production studio and the film screening room.

The University of Colorado at Boulder's new ATLAS building provides a state-of-the-art environment in which students and faculty can seamlessly merge creative endeavors with the latest in digital technology. The facility houses several unique workspaces, each designed with flexibility and robust content delivery in mind. The digital media technology of the new facility enables streamlined production and distribution across multiple platforms.

Black Box

At its heart, the ATLAS building houses the "black box," a 2,700-square-foot performance space that is configurable, allowing users the freedom to manage productions in an almost infinite number of ways including cyclorama-type productions and "infinite space" scene composition. It is fully soundproofed, offers multitrack recording and is HD-TV capable.

It is equipped with:

• One permanent and six portable high-end projectors
• Two Canon XL-1 High Definition video cameras
• A fully controllable saturated lighting rig affixed to a wire grid 12 feet above the performance floor and dual 360-degree tracked curtains
• Chroma-key and full blackout production environments
• Wireless and wired broadband access

Production Studio

Located next to the "black box" is a 1,000-square-foot production studio to be used primarily for live student news broadcast by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Sets supporting any number of storyboards are easily moved in and out of the facility.

Features and/or equipment of the production studio:

• Three Sony DXCD50WSH-3 CCD studio 4x3 and 16x9 format Serial Digital Interface Standard Definition (SDI/SD-TV) cameras each mounted on dolly-enabled Vinten 3381-3C Pro-Ped camera tripods with Teleprompters
• Full chroma-key and blackout environments are available
• Fully soundproofed and equipped with assorted microphones
• Professionally lit with both automated and fine manual controls
• Wireless and wired broadband access
  

Complimenting the recording studio is a soundproofed audio recording studio featuring an Avid ProTools professional editing and sound design system with the hardware and software needed to digitally record, "sweeten," edit and process all forms of audio content. From a segregated control space, readings can be multitracked and delivered in a variety of formats: DAT, Mini-Disk and CD.

Students will control the production studios from two self-contained identical rooms, each equipped with a professional level 16-input EchoLab Nova 1716x switcher, Chyron CG and a 24-input Mackie audio console. The rooms are divided by a soundproof sliding glass door that, when open, provides a unique studio control classroom allowing for a great amount of collaboration and efficiency.

Film Screening Room

A 75-seat film-screening auditorium features two Kinoton FP38D precision dual format film projectors. The FP38D is a professional film projector that provides support for both 16 mm and 35 mm films. The projectors come with four, German-made Schnider lenses as well as a full compliment of film projection booth accessories including a film examination table, power rewinds, 35 mm and 16 mm editing blocks, assorted 16 mm and 35 mm take-up reels and two new projection lamps. Dolby Digital EX 7.1 Surround Sound audio technology powers the sound system.

All ATLAS production and control facilities are linked with intercom and closed circuit video monitoring to ensure seamless communication.