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BAVC is located in a 14,000 square foot space (a former mayonnaise factory – read more about our history here) on the corner of Mariposa and Bryant streets in San Francisco.
BAVC’s facility is fully equipped with the most relevant media making hardware and software available including:
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Final Cut Pro suite;
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Final Cut Pro online suite;
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ProTools digital audio suite with narration booth;
- Five state-of-the-art Mac/PC computer labs; and a
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Community Innovation Lab with three PowerMac Systems with AJA SDI Kona cards capable of Uncompressed SD and HD online outputs, a Black Magic Video workhub for master control room integration, Final Cut Studio 2, Playstation 3, XBox 360, Apple TV, and several video PDAs for cross-platform diagnostics.
All BAVC systems are equipped with the latest versions of design and editing software programs including Adobe CS3/CS4, Final Cut Studio 7, Pro-Tools 7, Maya 2009, Mudbox, MotionBuilder, Motion and others.
For more information about renting our media suites and labs, check out the Make Media section.
Finally, working in partnership with the City of San Francisco and City College of San Francisco, BAVC is now connected to high-speed 10Gbit research networks through the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and National Lambda Rail. Over the National Lambda Rail network it will be possible to edit an hour-long documentary in real-time with someone else on the network in New York, Hong Kong or Paris. This connection will dramatically increase our ability to support innovative collaboration and media innovation.
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