Designing Vegas Editing Studio

snicholshms wrote on 6/4/2004, 9:59 PM
Anyone have any tips or resources they can share to help design an editing studio in a spare bedroom? This will be a permanent studio in a 10' wide by 22' long space with 12' high ceilings. Need advice on topics such as: color to paint the walls (minimize interference with color correction), lighting (flourescent vs tungsten vs light bulb, etc), air conditioning (dust control), racks & A/V switchers, editing furniture (access to wiring), workflow (capture to label graphics to DVD production)...the whole thing.
Any books/magazines on this subject? Any companies out there that offer design/engineering help?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 6/4/2004, 10:20 PM
Not that I like sending folks to other forums, but there is quite a thread on this subject on the DVInfo.net audio forum right now. You might want to check it out.
Auralex is a GREAT assist in this endeavor, they did the Sony studio in Madison.
Fleshpainter wrote on 6/5/2004, 12:55 AM
I have mine painted black with shielded lighting pointing only at that which needs to be lit. (desk lamps with low wattage reflector type bulbs) Everything surrounding a very comfortable office chair with wheels and room for a couple of gests/clients. Trackball and Shuttle controls on either side of keyboard, and aluminum foil on windows. Shelves everywhere and I tend to use headphones instead of speakers to isolate household noises and cooling fans/air conditioning.
farss wrote on 6/5/2004, 6:24 AM
Ar for lighting, go for fluro, less heat. Get fittings with HF ballasts and fit Osram tubes with a RI of >95. They cost a bit more but are damn close to daylight and they hold their CT very well. For a few dollars more you can get dimmable ballasts as well. Being HF there's no flicker either.
If you're dead serious about color grading then there are some recommendations about having about daylight illumination around the monitors.
I'd spend up on creature comforts, a lot of time sitting around puts a big strain on the body so a good chair to force proper posture would seem money well spent.
snicholshms wrote on 6/5/2004, 8:13 PM
Thanks for the good ideas.