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Digital Media Production Labs

Digital Media Labs are equipped with up-to-date software and tools for your student production work. Labs are available only to students who are currently enrolled in courses in the Moody College of Communication.

FALL 2025 LAB HOURS

Monday - Thursday - Open 8AM Close 10PM

Friday - Open 8AM Close 5PM

Saturday - Open 12PM Close 5PM

Sunday - Open 12PM Close 10PM

Labs are closed for all Observed University Holidays

Students should bring Headphones or Bluetooth Earbuds - we have headphones for checkout

 

Helpful Information

Access to workstations is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please bring the following with you:
- Headphones
- Thunderbolt 3 or 4 or USB 3 Hard Drive for Media Storage and Editing (see suggested hard drives)

podcasting equipment in a room

Lab Features

Labs include: 

  • Adobe Creative Cloud Suite - All Apps
    • Adobe Premiere
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Adobe After Effects
    • Adobe Media Encoder
  • Avid Media Composer
  • Avid ProTools Ultimate
  • Blackmagic Davinci Resolve
  • Izotope PostProduction Suite - Plugins for Audio  
  • Autodesk Maya - CMA 4.148 only - Windows Lab
  • Epic Games Unreal Engine  - CMA 4.148 only - Windows Lab
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Apple Pro Apps
    • Final Cut Pro
    • Garage Band
  • Wacom tablets
  • SketchUp Pro

 

Digital Media Lab Dub Rack

Media Duplication

The DML (Digital Media Labs) enables you to duplicate a wide variety of media formats with equipment is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Staff and handouts are on hand to help get you going. 

Duplication tools include: 

  • archival tape decks - DV/HDV
  • Umatic 3/4, Digital BetaSP
  • HDCam
  • BetaSP video decks for digitizing to QuickTime via Blackmagic Teranex

Specific Labs and Classrooms

Contains classes and open lab times. 

https://moody.utexas.edu/about/facilities/room/cma-4144-moody-digital-media-lab-dml-classroom

 

Full-time student labs.  

https://moody.utexas.edu/about/facilities/room/cma-4142-digital-media-lab-dml-computer-lab

Visit this wiki for workflows for Production and Post Production

Podcast audio suites used for recording of podcasts, voice-overs, group panels and more!  

https://moody.utexas.edu/about/facilities/room/cma-5166-edit-room-5b

Private editing suites that can be used as general purpose editing suites with the same builds as the Digital Media Labs.

https://moody.utexas.edu/about/facilities/room/cma-5166-edit-room-5b