John J. Louis Hall
John J. Louis Hall houses Northwestern's professional production and post-production facilities for the Department of Radio/Television/Film as well as broadcast production news facilities for the Medill School of Journalism.
The Radio/Television/Film facilities include an impressive array of field production equipment that students use to complete cutting-edge coursework, and an equally extensive series of digital nonlinear post-production suites for finishing projects, the same used by professional editors. These individual suites include high-definition Avid HD/DS Nitris editing and color correction facilities, Pro Tools audio suites including Waves Diamond bundle software, Final Cut Pro 5.1 HD editing and DVD authoring suites, Avid XPress SDI editing suites, and a 2-D and 3-D animation lab running Softimage XSI software.
Louis Hall is also home to the Barbara and Garry Marshall Studio Wing, which includes two film and video stages, both with 180-degree cycloramas and full lighting grids. This studio wing is also the new home of Northwestern's award-winning WNUR 89.3 FM radio station, which reaches 2.4 million people locally and is available worldwide on the web.
A partial list of equipment available for students to check out includes:
- Arriflex SR II Super 16mm, standard 16mm, and 16BL 16mm motion picture cameras, as well as an S camera package
- Bolex 16mm cameras
- Panasonic DVX-100 B, 24p mini DV cameras
- Panasonic HVX-200 P, DV, and HD P2 cameras
- Panasonic HDC27F P Varicam high-definition cameras
- Sony Betacam SP cameras
- Nagra 1/4"and Porta DAT audio recorders
- Marantz PMD 660 compact flash audio recorders
- Nikon D 70 digital still cameras
- Multiple Mole Richardson, Arri Sun HMI, KinoFlo, and Lowell lighting packages, microphones, mixers, audio recorders, and other audio and camera support equipment
Post-production suites include:
- Avid HD /DS Nitris editing and high-end finishing suites
- Avid XPress SDI nonlinear editing suites
- Pro Tools Audio Editing Suites
- Final Cut Pro 5.1 HD editing, graphics, and DVD authoring suites
- 2-D and 3-D animation lab running Softimage XSI software
- A multiformat conversion and dub room
- A 60-seat theater with motion picture and high definition projection and 5.1 Dolby Pro Logic surround sound