Facilities

What resources are there?

Edinburgh Skillset Screen & Media Academy is a collaboration between two of Scotland's leading screen practice educators - Edinburgh Napier University and Edinburgh College of Art (eca). We have a broad range of facilities available to students at both eca and Edinburgh Napier and reciprocal arrangements in place for sharing across the two institutions.

At ECA

  • TV studio with full lighting rig.
  • 4x Final Cut Studio / Avid Media Composer with Mojo Suites
  • 3x Avid Xpress Pro PCs
  • Film Production Office
  • Range of computers, film & video equipment to create 2D & 3D stop frame animation
  • Dedicated postgraduate animation studio space

 

Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy - Screen Academy Scotland Production Centre

As well as housing the Screen & Media Academy Administration Office and Technical stores, the Production Centre based in Merchiston Avenue provides full Production and Post-Production facilities and accommodates the busy schedules of both our post-graduate and undergraduate students.


A range of short courses, public screenings and Continuing Professional Development workshops and events also take place at the Production Centre making it a busy hub catering for industry professionals and the film going public as well as student filmmakers across both institutions.

At Edinburgh Napier University

  • 2x Projection/Screeing Rooms which can cater for 60 and 40 people respectively.These spaces are also used for workshops and are full fitted out with facilities for the projection of DVD, Mini DV, VHS, and streaming from the internet through PC. There are also links in both studios to the Machine Room with an HD converter Box for HD projection. The 2 studios adjoin one another and with the panel partition open can acommodate larger groups.
  • Avid Teaching Studio with 4 Avid Xpress Kits(running Avid Express HD PC ver5.7.7) all connected into the Machine Room. There is a self contained Avid Media Composer editing system, primarily used for logging. In this room there is also viewing facilities for Beta SP, DVC Pro, Mini DV, DVD and VHS with projection for DVD, Video and Audio linking through the machine room.
  • 4x individual Avid Xpress Suites (running Avid Express HD PC ver5.7.7) all linked into the Machine Room.
  • An Avid Online Suite (Avid Media Compser Mac Ver 2.7.7) directly linked into the Machine Room with an HD Broadcast Monitor.
  • Final Cut Pro Teaching Studio (Final Cut Studio 1.0) housing 5 Final Cut Pro Stations.
  • Final Cut Pro Online Suite (Final Cut Studio 1.0) linked directly into the Machine Room with a CRT Broadcast monitor.

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photographer L O'Loan