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    ITN's hi-res archive

    2004-09-30T08:30:00Z

    ITN has launched a new service offering previously unseen images from its archives. ITN Archives/Stills will use digital technology to generate high-resolution stills from moving footage at 300dpi - approximately four times the resolution of conventional screen-grabs.

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    Atom titles Manilow special

    2004-09-30T08:30:00Z

    Atom Pictures has produced the opening titles for the BBC's One Night with Barry Manilow. The sequence features BBC Television Centre at twilight being strafed by spotlights in a way that's reminiscent of a Hollywood gala. Images of Barry Manilow were composited onto the ...

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    BDH gives Mobos Caribbean theme

    2004-09-30T08:30:00Z

    Burrell Durrant Hifle (BDH) has designed and directed the titles and packaging for the Mobo Awards 2004 for Scarlet Productions. The sequence is based on a pool party theme with artists and presenters enjoying a Caribbean sunset from the roof of the Royal Albert Hall as the dome opens skywards. ...

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    Bernard Hayes titles Himalaya

    2004-09-30T08:30:00Z

    Bernard Hayes Design has created the opening sequence for Himalaya with Michael Palin. Palin's 2,000-mile journey takes him through the Himalayan states, from the Khyber Pass to the Bay of Bengal. Within the titles, the camera follows Palin through temples and over mountains. Digibeta footage ...

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    UK Post to go on tour of regions

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Post-production trade body UK Post is to embark on a nationwide roadshow in order to boost regional membership and address the concerns of regional members.

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    Cost of turning Ally Pally into media hub to be£50m plus

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    The planned renovation and development of Alexandra Palace into a media campus is likely to cost at least£50m and could be as much as£100m.

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    Joseph quits Pinewood for Farm Group

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Pinewood Shepperton Studios director of television Rachel Joseph has quit the company after just nine months in order to take up a new management role at

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    Five opts for IMS

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Five has signed up access service provider Independent Media Support Group (IMS) to continue supplying its subtitling services until December 2009. IMS has supplied subtitling for Five since 2001 and also supplies subtitling for BSkyB. Ofcom announced in July that all channels that have greater than 0.05% of market ...

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    MD post for Graves

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    General manager Rupert Graves has been promoted to managing director of TSI TX. The position has been created for Graves and will see his responsibilities expand as he takes a seat on the TSI TX board of directors, a place that he deserves, according to TSI managing director Simon Peach, ...

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    Rushes hires Aubry

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Post production house Rushes has signed up French Flame and Inferno artist Philippe Aubry. Aubry most recently worked at Cinesite, where he was responsible for the Inferno shots on the feature films King Arthur and Harry Potter and the Prisoner ...

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    Investment plans

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Presteigne Broadcast Hire has bought high-definition equipment to satisfy an upsurge in demand for the format. The recent purchase of four Sony HDC-950C2 high-def cameras and two HDCam recorders brings Presteigne's HD investment to more than£2.2m this year. One of the HD cameras was dry hired by the BBC for ...

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    Filmlight kit sale

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Soho post-production facilities Molinare and Framestore CFC have both bought Filmlight's new Baselight 8 grading system. The kit, which costs from Eu130,000 (£88,568), has been designed to be used as a 'hero suite' for high-end film grading.

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    VMI purchase

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    Soho-based VMI has bought a high-definition DLA-HD2K projector from JVC. The addition of the projector will provide a state-of-the-art HD cinema for clients to view rushes and HD final edits. The HD-2K projector has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 with a total of 6.3 million pixels, and a contrast ...

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    Farm Group goes to the farm

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    The Farm Group is providing the on-location editing facilities for Five's new factual series The Farm , and has graded all its on-air promotional material. The Endemol reality show drags celebrities from their urban lives to work on a farm. Eighteen editors will work round ...

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    BBC team visit the Shoebox Zoo

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    BBC Post Production's 3D animation and digital team has designed CGI-animated characters for new CBBC series Shoebox Zoo. The show sees teenager Marnie discover ancient Celtic woodcarvings in an old shoebox. The creatures spring to life to enlist Marnie's help in finding a magical ...

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    422 makes Sky's Sci-fi Moments

    2004-09-23T08:30:00Z

    422 Manchester has produced the opening titles for Sky One's Ultimate Sci-fi Top 10 Moments. Three programmes explore the greatest moments of science fiction in popular culture. Designer Gareth Price designed and produced the sequence, in which a camera flies through a futuristic database ...

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    Sky fits out news ops with Sony kit

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Sky News is kitting out five more of its major news bureaux with Sony tapeless camera technology, it was announced at IBC this week.

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    NTL and O2 in multichannel phone trial

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    NTL's broadcast division and O2 have teamed up to produce the UK's first multichannel television to mobile phones trial.

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    BBC Broadcast lands Five subtitling and signing deal

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has won a four-and-a-half year contract with Five to provide audio description and sign language services as it looks to capitalise on an Ofcom ruling in July.

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    Lip Sync maps out Kids Awards

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Lip Sync post has provided the branding and animated graphics for Walt Disney Productions Disney Channel Kids Awards 2004. An animated pirate's treasure map was created, with the camera zooming in on a different area for each award. The design, map, visual effects and final compositing was done by senior ...