All Technology articles – Page 606
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Manchester's Flix acquires Avid Nitris HD
Manchester edit house Flix Facilities is to invest£100,000 in new equipment including an Avid DS Nitris HD.
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Goldcrest adds to TV facilities
Feature film facility Goldcrest Post is expanding its broadcast capacity, spending up to£200,000 as it pursues managing director Peter Joly's policy of diversification.
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Blue finishes Tim Marlow series
Blue has completed the online and audio post on Tim Marlow's Judgement Day. The Seventh Art-produced series explores how ideas of life after death have been represented in art throughout history. The first episode focuses on judgement after death, from ancient Egypt and Buddhist ...
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Frontier's great composers
Frontier Post has completed post-production on Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats for Channel 4. In the 4 x 50-minute series, made by Tiger Aspect, composer Howard Goodall studies the musicians who dominated the 20th-century by fusing classical and popular music. The series was onlined and ...
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Darkhorse FX opens
Three former BBC Design employees have opened a new vfx company in Bristol. Darkhouse FX is owned by broadcast designer Jean Cramond and digital effects designers Craig Higgins and Adrian Woodward. They have worked on projects including the award-winning Monsters We Met and ...
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Outpost puts£100k into HD
Outpost Facilities at Pinewood Studios has invested more than£100,000 on HD equipment.
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C4 upgrades broadcast servers
Channel 4 has spent more than£300,000 upgrading its broadcast servers.
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Big Bang begins
Big Bang Post Production has been opened in Bristol by Mastertracks owner Neil Hipkiss and online editor Tim Bolt. Dubbing mixer Hipkiss and Bolt have based the new company in the same building as Mastertracks. Bolt, who left Pinkhouse Post in July, will offer an online post-production capability with a ...
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Tapeless BBC will save cash on transfers
The BBC spends£8.5m a year transferring footage to and from tape.
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Saint's BBC job
Newly formed agency Saint has produced promos for BBC Broadcast, designing a package for BBC series Hard Spell. They were designed and art directed by Nicky Thompson from Saint and the 3D and compositing was done at The Hive. The promo's director was BBC Broadcast's Mark Chaudior and the producer ...
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Liquid's Celeb work completed
Liquid TV has completed titles for I'm a Celebrity? Get me out of Here! The sequence features a limo crashing through a jungle canopy and spilling its contents - a car-load of celebs - into a storm of camera flashes. The car and the celebrities ...
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Five finishes dentist doc's titles
Five Creative Services has made the titles for upcoming documentary series Can You Trust Your Dentist? The titles evoke the nightmarish experience of being at the mercy of shady dental practitioners. Senior designers Timothy Evans and Barney Steel completed compositing and created the 3D waiting ...
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Hive staff depart to establish Lime
Four members of The Hive have left VTR Media Services to set up a new company, funded by M2 Television's finance director.
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Frontier finalises So Solid film
Frontier Post has completed post-production on Maroon Productions' Sticks and Stones for C4. The one-hour documentary follows So Solid Crew's Asher D as he asks why some racially offensive language is part of modern life. The show was produced and directed by Paul Blake, edited ...
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Malik to Red Post
Kabir Malik has joined Red Post Production from Ascent Media. Malik has been appointed business development manager, having had similar roles at a number of post companies.
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Silks herald arrival of C4 Racing
Victor Martinez and The Mill have completed the titles and graphics for the launch of Channel 4 Racing for Highflyer Productions. Racing silks are seen weaving in and out of a race before coming together to form the shape of a galloping horse, charging towards ...
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BDA posts Promax winner
BDA has completed the Promax-winning Think Again campaign for the National Geographic Channels. In Donkey, which won a Promax gold for best corporate promotion, a donkey kills an old woman by accidentally disturbing a cart and sending watermelons crashing down on her. The promo finishes with the line: 'Every year, ...
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Big Buoy does Blackpool
Big Buoy has produced visual effects for the BBC musical drama Blackpool. The 6 x 60-minute series follows Ripley Holden's (David Morissey) attempts to open an amusement arcade in the seaside town following the discovery of a dead body on the premises. The story is punctuated with fruit machine visuals ...
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Thomson buys in to Corinthian TV
Thomson has bought a majority stake of playout specialist Corinthian Television Facilities for an undisclosed figure.
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Video buys tapeless
Video Europe has bought£500,000 of high-definition and tapeless broadcast equipment because of increasing demand for the new formats. Managing director Steve Green said: 'We held off until we thought that the demand was strong enough. We think that this equipment will cover the demand for now.' Video Europe's haul includes ...