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bow tie orders HD
Bow Tie Television last week commissioned the purchase of a second high definition OB truck owing to increased demand for the format. The truck will cost Bow Tie over£500,000 but managing director John Knopp felt the investment is justified: 'The first four months of this year are going to have ...
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Oaten joins golden
Colin Oaten has left his role as producer at VTR, where he had been for nine years, to take on new duties as senior producer at Golden Square Post. Although his experience is primarily in the commercials and promos industry, Oaten has been taken on due to his involvement in ...
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Outpost in BBC deal
Pinewood-based Outpost Facilities has been commissioned to do online and offline edits on the BBC's new sitcom, Everything I Know About Me. The programme is currently in pre-production and shooting is due to start at Pinewood studios in the coming weeks. The
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Beam.TV and IMD pioneer digital ad delivery
Beam.tv and Independent Media Distribution (IMD) last week became the first companies in the UK to digitally deliver a television commercial to a broadcaster via the internet when a Nestle commercial was delivered via an end-to-end digital IP network to Viacom-owned MTV, writes Rick Dacey.
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Williams to head St Anne's
St Anne's Post general manager Keith Williams has been confirmed as the new managing director of the company following the sudden departure of Bruce Everett, who has left to return to his previous career as a film and television post-producer.
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Monet shows at NAB
Imagineer systems will unveil Monet, its start-to-finish image insertion solution, at NAB next week. The product is used for inserting images, moving or still, into moving footage. Monet was developed in collaboration with Cinesite for use on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban but is touted as having widespread ...
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£50m post kitty
TV post facilities that do feature film work will soon be eligible for funding to pay for an in-house training manager thanks to a Skillset and UK Film Council initiative. As announced in Broadcast last year (11.9.03), post facilities can get a slice of£50m being made available for training as ...
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Mouse could die out
Editors may one day cut programmes the way Tom Cruise controlled his anti-crime application in the film Minority Report if research at the University of Salford comes to fruition. The university is using tracking technology from Vicon to 'demonstrate and evaluate real-world ways for people to interact with computers and ...
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Low-cost tv station
Trimedia has completed the design and implementation of a fully digital TV station for Viavision's three new for-profit channels. Built for just over£700,000 - a fraction of the cost of a usual operation - the small studios use Globecaster clip playback, an Incite server and Air Box scheduling software rather ...
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UK Post board looks to regions
The board nominations for UK Post, the Department of Trade and Industry-backed trade body, have been finalised and it is not just the usual Soho suspects that feature. While the 35 shortlisted candidates include chief executives and managing directors such as David Jeffers of MPC, William Sargent of Framestore CFC, ...
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Resolution wins three big deals
Resolution has won three big post-production contracts, thanks to a new logging system that allows producers to organise rushes and cut sequences from their own offices.
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Presteigne buys HD lenses for Athens
Presteigne Broadcast Hire has responded to an increased demand for HD equipment by purchasing Canon HD Digi Super XJ field lenses worth£1m.
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Triangle hires MD and staff
Triangle Television has expanded its operations with the appointment of a new manager and the addition of three staff.
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UK Post elections
Momentum continues to build behind the new post-production trade body, UK Post, as the submission deadline for board nominations passed last Wednesday, 31 March. More than 30 individuals have been nominated for the seven elected seats that will make up the board under chairman Mike Luckwell. A further two to ...
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Japanese show set
Equipment supplier Mitcorp is building a Japanese kitchen-style set for this year's Broadcast Production Show to help demonstrate the capabilities of a range of new Sony and Pana-sonic cameras. A sushi chef will work on site while being recorded by cameras covering DV through to HD, including the new disk-based ...
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NAB debut for JVC kit
JVC is to introduce a portable HD player/recorder at NAB to accompany its hand-held JY-HD10 HD camcorder. The CU-VH1EX will record 720p/30 and will output 1080i/60. It will allow video producers to spool HD content from their tape to any non-linear editing (NLE) system without tying up the camcorder. Once ...
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Component's boy band designs
Component Graphics has completed design on a 60-minute one-off special, Battle of the Boy Bands , created and produced by Shine Entertainment for Channel 4. CG elements were composited with footage and key words to create posters, billboards and newspaper headlines, which chart the ups ...
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P3 spices up The Sex.com story
P3 has done effects, online and grading work on The Sex.com Story , a 60-minute documentary for Five made by Making Time. The show charts the extraordinary theft of the most valuable domain name in the world, sex.com. Online and grade was completed by Michael ...
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Rushes graphics for Aids show
Rushes Post Production has completed graphics work on a 2 x 60-minute BBC specialist factual documentary about Aids. Being Positive , directed and produced by Andy Robbins, looks at the social history of the HIV and Aids epidemic. Modern graffiti-style graphic design and animation have ...
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NewsA battle royale for Bafta's craft awards
The Bafta Craft Awards have a battle royale on their hands as the BBC/A&E's Charles II: The Power and the Passion comes head to head with Talkback/BBC's The Lost Prince in three of each of their five nominations.