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NewsMetaglue launches MXF viewer
Metaglue has launched a beta version of a real-time Windows player for viewing MXF master files.
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NewsSony boss to deliver 3D keynote at NAB
Sony’s Hiroshi Yoshioka will deliver the opening keynote at the 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas next week.
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NewsPinewood positive despite profits drop
Studios group Pinewood Shepperton saw its pre-tax profits fall by 24% in 2009 with TV revenues also down thanks to the advertising slump.
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NewsBBC S&PP set to wield jobs axe
BBC Studios and Post Production (S&PP) is likely to make 44 staff redundant as it completes the final part of an internal reshuffle.
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NewsAP to open central London hub
AP Global Media Services, the video news-gathering facilities arm of The Associated Press (AP), is to launch a new studio and production space in the heart of central London.
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NewsCimelli gets top UK job at Ascent Media
Former Technicolor managing director Maurizio Cimelli has been appointed as senior vice president of EMEA at Ascent Media, a move that effectively makes him the boss of the Group’s UK business.
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NewsSony doc details fire-detection breakthrough
R&D findings from an environmental project that has become the subject of a one-off branded documentary are to be released as a technical white paper that could benefit wildlife and natural history documentary makers.
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Unit boosts VFX team to meet growth target
Unit has added new talent and equipment to its VFX department as part of an ambitious corporate growth plan devised to increase company turnover by 60% this year.
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NewsFell to replace Childs at DTG
The Digital TV Group (DTG) has appointed former ITV director of future technologies Simon Fell as the new independent chair of the DTG Technical Council.
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NewsOutpost unveils File Lab
Outpost Facilities has launched a conversion, encoding and digitizing service for production companies called File Lab.
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NewsStereo 3D joint venture launched
Compendium Media and Vision 3 have joined forces to create a new joint venture company dedicated to producing and consulting on stereoscopic 3D work.
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NewsPrime Focus adds to broadcast team
Prime Focus has appointed Neil Coles to the role of senior sales executive and added Louisa Sutherland-Smith as an audio producer, both in its broadcast division.
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NewsVET teams up with BTV Post for 3D courses
London-based training provider VET is teaming up with Brighton’s BTV Post to run a series of stereoscopic 3D skills sessions.
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NewsSiemens strike unlikely after new pay offer
Talks between Bectu and Siemens have resulted in a revised pay offer that, if accepted, should avert industrial action by staff working on the BBC account.
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NewsMPC adds Nuke site license
MPC has become one of the largest Nuke sites in the world after investing in a site license for The Foundry developed compositing software.
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NewsGreenaway: ‘No post monopoly at MediaCityUK’
The boss of MediaCityUK has assured the post-production sector that its proposed digital-media services deal with Ascent Media Group will not produce a monopoly situation at Salford Quays.
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NewsPeel brings in BBC’s Waters as head of studios
Peel Media has appointed BBC Studios and Post Production’s Andy Waters as the new head of studios for MediaCityUK.
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NewsYes/No eyes TV for 3D IMAX docs
Brighton-based producer Yes/No Productions is filming two £2.6m stereoscopic underwater documentaries destined for IMAX and 3D TV channels such as Sky 3D.
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NewsRagdoll adds DVS SpycerBox in storage update
Teletubbies producer Ragdoll Productions has completed an overhaul of storage capabilities at its post facility in Stratford-upon- Avon with the addition of a 48- terabyte DVS Spycer Box with fibre-channel connectivity.
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NewsFormer Red Vision duo launch Flipbook
Two former directors of Manchester-based design and graphics companies have joined forces to open a new CGI and visual effects studio.