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Waveform Austin
Booked through FullSlate
15-foot ceiling · strobes and backdrop paper on site · $15 a shoot on top
Best for a portrait on a Thursday night, at the cost of the retouch.
Open in Maps15 Austin studios for photo and video
Fifteen Austin studios publish what a room costs. Read on 8 November 2026, the range runs from $25 an hour at a strobe studio on North Lamar to $2,500 a day at a 5,000 square foot stage on St. Elmo. The rate is the easy part. What decides the shoot is what the room already has in it.
The fifteen, at a glance
Rates and the smallest booking each one takes, read on 8 November 2026.
| Studio | Rate |
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| Waveform Austin | ~$25/hr evenings, $150/4h weekdays |
| Space ATX | $35/hr or $350/10h |
| The Lumen Room | From $150/hr |
| Good Friend Studio | $100/hr |
| JPR Studios Austin | From $75/hr, $225/3h |
| ATX Content Club | $149/hr, $599/2h with an operator |
| Trailr Park Studios | $110/hr, $850/12h |
| Storyhouse Studio | From $175/hr |
| Sound Stage on St. Elmo | From $1,300 half day, $2,500 day |
| Photogroup Studios | Daily fee, on request |
| Distribution Hall | On request |
| Vivian | On request |
| Media Pouch, Pouch 6 | In the booking calendar |
| Alight Collaborative | Shown when you pick a slot |
| Cori and Sage | Hourly to full day, on request |
What a shoot space has to give you
A rental page answers three questions before the price: what stands between you and the light, what comes with the room, and how the gear gets in.
Gear is where quotes stop matching. Round Rock Studio says its rental "only includes the space". Just Push Record includes cameras, mics and lighting. Good Friend includes lighting and backdrops.
- Power, and what it is forPhotogroup publishes three-phase power and 16-foot ceilings. Two household sockets will not run a 2,000-watt head.
- Paper, cyc or plain wallBackdrop paper is a consumable; a painted cyc is a build. Lumen Room is daylight only. St. Elmo has two 180-degree white cycs and a green screen.
- How you get inVivian has a bay door, Distribution Hall a concrete floor for drive-in loading, Media Pouch a garage two hours validated.
The rate buys a room. Every question worth asking is about what the room stops you from doing.
Hourly rooms with the gear in them
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Space ATX
Two studios, 25 and 31 · Studio 31 is $50 an hour · clothing rack and makeup mirror · two-hour minimum
Best for a small brand shooting a rack of product, styling on site.
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The Lumen Room, Austin
1,100 square feet · daylight only, no lighting kit · four-hour minimum
Best for a shoot that is one window and a wall.
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Good Friend Studio
Booking portal
Lighting, backdrops and grip included · memberships from $250 a month
Best for a brand booking four shoots a year.
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JPR Studios Austin
Live availability online
Three-camera podcast rooms with mics and lighting · files the same day
Best for a founder who wants the episode recorded, not a room.
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ATX Content Club
Address sent with the booking
Pre-lit set and one locked camera · raw files included
Best for a first batch of vertical video where the framing is already decided.
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Trailr Park Studios
Address on booking
3,500 square feet · sixteen built sets · one-hour minimum · (512) 844-9054
Best for a music video needing a cell, a corridor and a street corner in a day.
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Storyhouse Studio
1,200 square feet · sound-treated · three-hour minimum · (512) 893-4405
Best for interviews and courses where sound is half the picture.
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Stages and cyc walls booked by the day
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Sound Stage on St. Elmo
Two 180-degree white cycs and a 17-by-24-foot green screen · drive-in load-in · booked by the half day
Best for a client film with a crew, a van and a white world.
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Photogroup Studios
Quote by phone
Pre-lit 750-square-foot cyclorama, 16-foot ceilings, three-phase power · memberships $125 to $1,500
Best for a photographer who wants a lit cyc without owning one.
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Distribution Hall
Booking request form
6,250 square feet · 30-by-27-foot infinity wall · drive-in concrete floor
Best for a car, a set build or a hundred people. The only room here that holds all three.
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Vivian
Request to book
18-by-12-foot cyc in white or chroma green · bay-door load-in
Best for a green-screen job in the north, where the drive is short.
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Media Pouch, Pouch 6
Booking calendar
Pre-lit 11-foot white cyc · manager on site · ten-hour day minimum · (512) 200-4130
Best for a full day downtown, parked in a validated garage.
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Alight Collaborative
Hourly calendars
1,400 square feet · mezzanine loft kitchen · window light all day
Best for a content day with a kitchen and a window.
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Cori and Sage
1,050 square feet over three rooms · kitchenette and a full bath · one-hour minimum
Best for a headshot morning a short walk from lunch.
Open in MapsWhat the day rate actually buys
The day rate is not always a discount. Space ATX charges $35 an hour or $350 for ten: the same $35. Trailr Park charges $110 an hour and $850 for twelve, which is $70.83.
- Ask what the rate excludes.
- Divide the day rate by its hours.
- Check the minimum. Lumen Room asks four hours, Media Pouch ten.
- Walk the load-in. A bay door decides your call time.
- Get the number in writing.
If the shoot is an event rather than a product, the phone you already own does more of the work than a rented room. I photograph in rooms like these most weeks. The ones that work are where nobody spends the first hour moving furniture.
Sources
- https://waveformaustin.com/photography-studio-rental/
- https://storyhouse.studio/studio-rentals
- https://stelmostage.com/stage
- https://atxcontent.club/content-studio-rental-austin
- https://www.thelumenroom.com/faqs-4
- https://www.photogroupaustin.com/cyclorama-studio-rental-austin
- https://www.alightcollab.com/rentals
- https://www.coriandsage.com/