NFT3

NFT3 offers comfortable raked seating and a large presentation space in front of the screen, ideal for intimate talks and screenings.

NFT3 at BFI Southbank

Seats

  • 108

Screen

  • 11.6ft x 27ft (3.5m x 8.2m), matt white, mini-perf screen
  • 2-way motorised masking and tabs
  • Roll-down silver screen for 35mm 3D
  • Distance from screen to projector: film & digital: 15.94m

Digital cinema projection

  • Christie CP4230 4K digital cinema projector
  • Doremi DCP-2K4 / IMB digital cinema player
  • 4K and 2K DCP
  • HFR
  • Xpand 3D
  • Audio description

Film projection

  • 2 Cinemeccanica Victoria 8 35mm/70mm Projectors (16-30fps)
  • 1 Kinoton FP 18 16mm Projectors (16-25fps)

Film formats

  • 35mm aspect ratios: 1.19:1, 1.33:1, 1.37:1, 1.66:1, 1.85:1, 2.35:1
  • 35mm 3D (twin projector interlock with polarised glasses)
  • 70mm
  • 16mm

Sound

  • 5.1 cinema sound system
  • Panastereo CSP1200 & CSP4600 processors
  • Dolby DMA8 Plus
  • Dolby Digital
  • DTS (35mm & 70mm)
  • 70mm 6-track magnetic sound
  • 16mm optical & combined mag.

Video playback

  • Hyperdeck Studio Pro
  • Mac Pro
  • Digital Betacam & Betacam SP (PAL/NTSC)
  • Blu-ray, multi-region
  • DVD (PAL/NTSC), multi-region
  • Christie Cine-IPM 2K scaler
  • Available inputs for DVI, HDMI, VGA and 3G-SDI up to 2048x1080

Audio playback and recording

  • CD
  • 16-bit AIFF or WAV
  • MP3 file
  • Recording to 16-bit mono WAV file

Sound reinforcement

  • 1 Audio-Technica U859QL lectern microphones
  • 6 Shure MX418 gooseneck table microphones
  • 2 Sennheiser SKM-300-835 G3 wireless handheld microphones
  • Soundcraft Spirit F1 mixing desk
  • HP200 amplifier
  • 2 Tannoy V8 speakers

Stage lighting

Fixed house lighting rig consisting of:

  • 9 650W fresnels
  • 2 Parcan 64s
  • 33 15AMP lighting circuits

Tie-lines

  • 12 XLR tie-lines from stage to projection box (6 each side)
  • 12 BNC tie-lines between stage and projection box (6 each side)

General

  • Black OPTI Blade lectern
  • Windows 7 PC laptop
  • Wired internet connection
  • Induction loop (for film & stage)
  • Infra-red headphones (single channel) – can be used for audio description
  • Live soft title facility on request

On request

  • HDCam
  • VHS (PAL/NTSC)
  • U-matic (PAL/NTSC + HI/LO Band)
  • Macbook Pro laptop
  • 2 Audio Technica 3000 Series clip-on lavalier microphones

On request and at an additional cost

  • HDCam SR
  • Dedicated high-performance wifi network
  • Transfer of content to DCP