The School of Computing, Informatics and Media building The School of Computing, Informatics and Media at the University of Bradford prides itself on the excellent facilities we have to offer for both students and staff. We have a dedicated technical support team who are always available if things ever go wrong.
Along with our general computing labs and facilities we also offer specialist labs for computer games, graphics programming,video editing and robotics. Overall we have over 200 computers available for student use and a number of wireless hotspots to enable students with laptops to access the campus network.
The loans counter. Along with our excellent laboratory facilities, the School of Informatics offers an equipment loans service to students. Loan items are available free of charge for student to use for projects and film making.
As well as stocking the latest high definition cameras, the loans counter has complete audio and grip facilities including steadicam body mount stabilizer systems, tracking dollys and a camera crane, giving students the chance to work with industry standard equipment. Students can produce CGI work using the latest chromakey and matte technology developed by the BBC's Research & Development department.
A wide range of edit facilities are also provided including Adobe Premiere, Avid and Final Cut Pro. Equipment available for loan includes*:
*Specifications for the above equipment may be subject to change.
A Vicon motion capture camera. The School of Computing, Informatics and Media has always prided itself at providing the latest industry standard facilities and technologies to the students enrolled on its courses. The Department of Creative Technology is currently providing our animation and games students with access to highly specialised equipment used for capturing real motion for 3D animation. Our students get access to this equipment in directed teaching as well as for group and individual projects.
More information on our Motion Capture facilities is available on the Department of Creative Technology Website here .
Dell Xeon Quad Core 2.0GHz & 4GB RAM
Dual screen 20" Widescreen LCD Displays
DVD RW Drives & nVidia Quadro FX1700 Graphic cards
Dell Precision Intel Dual Core 2.67GHz & 4GB RAM
Dual screen 20" Widescreen LCD Displays
DVD RW Drives & nVidia Quadro FX3500 Graphic cards
20 Apple Mac G5 Workstations
Widescreen HD LCD displays & LaCie 22"20" high resolution colour-balanced CRTs
Wacom A3 Graphic Tablets
Apple OS10
31 x Dell Precision Workstations, featuring Intel Dual Core 2.67 GHz and 4GB RAM
DVD Rewriters
nVidia Quadro FX3500 Adaptors
Dual 20" Widescreen LCD Monitors
720p, 1080i and 1080p resolutions
Solid State Recording
Fujinon HD lens
Shoot HD using HDV 1080i format
Shoot SD using MiniDV and DVCAM formats
Full size shoulder mount DV cameras
Nightvision HDV Handycam
Handheld 3-chip CCD native widescreen cameras
16x Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras 8 - 10 Megapixels
Canon EOS1D 16 Megapixel Digital SLR
Hot Shoe Flash Guns
Elinchrom Portable Studio Flash Kits
Portable light-boxes
A4 Monochrome, Full Duplex
A3 / A4 Colour, Full Duplex
A3 Colour, Full Duplex Drafting printer
Epson Large Format 7600 Printer - prints 8 colour inkjet up to 60cm wide onto a variety of media including paper, canvas and transparencies
Epson Large Format 9600 Printer - prints 8 colour inkjet up to 1m wide onto a variety of media including paper, canvas and transparencies
Hot Press - Mounts print media onto card or foam board & laminates large format prints
Theatrical lighting bar including par cans and spots
Colorama Wall Mount paper roll backdrops
Apple Mac G5 Workstation
12x Avid / Premiere Pro Suites
SD and HD resolutions supported
Video Assist Monitors
Dedicated video storage drives
4 Individual Edit Booths for group work
Blu-ray authoring and playback
Mini DV, DVCAM, HDV, & XDCAM HD VTR Decks
Recording suite with sound baffles, condenser mics
Soundcraft mixing desks
Microphone compressors
Midi keyboards
Web-based production music
Sound Effects Library including BBC Sound FX CDs.
Sound production Lab with Compact 4 mixers and USB Audio mini keyboards
Blonde, Redhead and Gulliver Lighting Kits
Sony and Audio Technica professional studio lapel mics
Sennheiser Shotgun mics, baskets and Rycote Windshields
Steadicam Flyer camera Stabiliser System
Losmandy Flext Flexible Track and Dolly System
Portable Chromakey cloths
Portable Reflecmedia Retro-reflective chromakey cloths and light rings
Wide Angle lenses for Sony Video Cameras
Imacon Flextight 949 Film Scanner
A4 & A3 Flatbed scanners
Avid Media Composer
Final Cut Pro
Motion
Adobe Premiere
Adobe Encore
Adobe Audition
Adobe Soundbooth
Adobe After Effects
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Flash
Adobe Ultra
Steinberg Cubase
Propellorhead Reason
Maya
Z-Brush
MS Office
Mac OS X
Windows 7
Java JSP / MySQL
Microsoft .NET
PHP / MySQL
(External)
Academic discount for Apple Computers
(External)
Microsoft Developer (MSDNAA) tools and software
(Available for staff and students)
Please note that our facilities are continually under revision, exact specifications may be subject to change.