Studios & Equipment

El Barrio Firehouse Studio Floor Plans (pdf)

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59th Street Open Studio

MNN has one four-camera Open Studio at 59th St. The 40x40 ft. studio is equipped with:

Four HD television studio cameras
Ross Carbonite HD switcher
Xpression CG 2D/3D software for graphics creation
Telemetrics Robotic Control Unit
Yamaha MC7L Audio Mixer
6-line Call-in Phone System
Convertible/Portable set pieces and lighting design
Recording formats: XDCam, DVD, Blu-ray

59th St and El Barrio Closed Studios

MNN has one 20x27 ft. three-camera Closed Studio at our 59th St. location and one 25x40 ft. three-camera Closed Studio at the MNN El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center. These studios are equipped with:

Three HD television studio cameras,
Ross Carbonite HD switcher
Xpression CG 2D/3D software for graphics creation
Telemetrics Robotic Control Unit
Yamaha MC7L Audio Mixer
6-line Call-in Phone System
Convertible/Portable set pieces and lighting design
Recording formats: XDCam, DVD, Blu-ray

All-in-One "Express" Studios

MNN has four all-in-one "Express" studios: two at our 59th St. location and one at the El Barrio Firehouse. These studios are equipped with:

Two Sony BRC-H700 Robotic Cameras
Ross Carbonite Production Switcher
Yamaha DM1000 Digital Audio Mixer
Xpression CG 2D/3D
6-line Call-in Phone System

Editing Stations

Between the 59th Street Studios location and the El Barrio Firehouse, MNN has 40 blazing-fast, editing stations available for certified producers. We are currently working with 27" iMacs loaded with 3.8GHz quad-core 7th-generation Intel Core i5 processors and 32GB 2400MHz memory. Each station features up-to-date Adobe Premiere video editing software.