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Soho shows appetite for 4K Telecine
The Mill is the latest Soho post house to splash out£1m on a 4K Telecine, bringing the number of companies to own one of the high-spec Grass Valley film scanning machines to five.
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Slowdown forces Lynx into administration
Denham-based Lynx Digital, one of the UK's oldest facilities, has gone into administration, writesDavid Wood.
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Al Jazeera graphics
Arabic news channel Al Jazeera has ordered real-time 2D and 3D graphics from Norwegian graphics specialist Vizrt. The system will run in Al Jazeera's four broadcast centres in Doha, London, Kuala Lumpur and Washington from the beginning of 2006 and will provide news graphics through the Octopus newsroom editing system. ...
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Arqiva playout deal
Arqiva, formerly NTL Broadcast, has signed a£2m, five-year deal to provide integrated playout, uplinking and satellite capacity for Home Entertainment Corporation's ChoicesUK TV, a DVD retail channel launching on Sky Digital this week. HEC will manage playout using the remote scheduling and file-transfer capability at Arqiva's Broadcast Media Centre in ...
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BBC OB scrubs up to film kidney transplant operation
BBC Outside Broadcasts, which crewed last year's award-winning Breast Cancer: The Operation, has been called in again on a BBC1 show about kidney transplant operations. The unit, headed by manager Steve Hall, worked closely with St Mary's Hospital to ensure health and safety. The shoot used ...
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BDH projects onto crime screen
Animal Crime Sceneseries producer Hilary Jeffkins commissioned designer Steve Burrell from agency BDH to work on opening titles and content graphics for the BBC natural history unit's new whodunnit animal series. Burrell created a large transparent crime screen onto which graphics and footage are projected using movie ...
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Blue illustrates Nazi mentality
BBC Broadcast's brief to post house Blue for UK History's six-part Inside the Nazi Statewas to shed light on the mentality of those who supported the Nazis. Blue came up with a reconstruction of a Nazi throwing a brick into of a Jewish bakery, but played ...
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Lipsync designs fatherhood FX
Lipsync Post designed and produced 30-second and 10-second titles and graphics for Hat Trick Productions' BBC3 series He's Having a Baby, based on the journey from bachelorhood to fatherhood. In one sequence a roadsign turns into a mobile of cascading£20 notes as storks fly by. A ...
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The Mill hires duo
The Mill has hired two graduates from French animation college Supinfocom on the strength of their abstract end-of-year film 90 Degrees. Jules Janaud and Francois Roisin will join the facility in September as 3D animators.
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Podcasting event
The UK's first conference devoted to podcasting is to take place on Saturday, 17 September at the Berners Hotel, London. The line-up of PodcastCon UK 2005 will include BBC head of interactive radio Chris Kimber, Virgin Radio head of strategic development James Cridland and international award-winning podcaster Richard Vobes.
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Facilities move to 'Valleywood'
Dragon International Studios, the£330m film and TV studio complex being built in South Wales, has already spawned its first post-production start-up - film and TV facility Digital Dragon.
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Stanley in HD move
Dubbing house Stanley Productions has invested£84,000 in Sony's top-end HDCam SRW-5500 VTR. The format offers 1080 HD-quality recording and playback at multiple frame rates. Applications range from HDTV to digital cinematography and digital intermediates.
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Skillset launch
Skillset has launched its Indie Business Development Scheme, funded by the European Social Fund and aimed at independent producers. Over the next year it will give 45 companies a tailored package of support including business planning, consultancy and training bursaries for staff.
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Why broadband is redefining TV
Two broadband TV formats are vying for viewers' attention: one PC-based the other via the set-top box into the television.
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The net gains from Broadband TV
With technology barriers starting to fall, broadcasters are piling into internet video on demand. David Woodexamines the programming and production techniques the new medium is likely to adopt.
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NewsNighty Night goes mobile
The BBC is launching its first experiment with mobile phone broadcasting, making clips of BBC3 comedy Nighty Nightavailable over videophones.
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NewsBBC employee faked Wikipedia entry
Users of encyclopaedia website Wikipedia claim the site has been exploited for a viral marketing campaign for a BBC project.
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NewsBBC dogged by spoof news story
The BBC is still being dogged by a spoof BBC News web page which reported the death of 28 midgets in a fight with a lion.
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Avid buys out Pinnacle in£259m deal
Avid is to complete its proposed takeover of California-based video-editing firm Pinnacle Systems this week after the£259m deal was cleared by the European Commission.
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Nats gets equation right for C4
Nats has finished posting Channel 4's£1.3m E=MC2, a docu-drama which traces the roles played by five scientists in piecing together the world's best known equation. It was produced in HD by indie Darlow Smithson using DVCPro HD on the Panasonic Varicam at 720p. Post-production supervisor Richard Gillespie ...