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    Locomotion buys four Final Cut systems

    2004-09-30T08:30:00Z

    Locomotion Creative Production Services is installing Final Cut Pro editing facilities at three further production companies.

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    Design co launches

    2004-09-30T08:30:00Z

    Ex-BBC design directors Dave Freeman and Simon Brown have set up Pixels and Potions and Kiss My Pixel as part of a new collective based in Bristol. Freeman and Brown, both formerly of BBC design in Bristol, set up last week to focus on broadcast and feature film design. They ...

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    UK post extension

    2004-09-30T08:30:00Z

    UK Post has extended the nominations deadline for the second regional director on its board. Gaynor Davenport, chief executive, UK Post said: 'In light of the forthcoming regional tours, and following feedback from some UK Post members, I have decided to extend the nomination period.' Nominations will now be accepted ...

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    Machine Room move

    2004-09-30T08:30:00Z

    London post facility The Machine Room has appointed Ben Baker as senior project coordinator to look after TV series, film mastering and restoration. Baker joins from Ascent Media after 18 months at the company where he was most recently responsible for the Warner Brothers entertainment account. His first task will ...

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    EBU HD amendment

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    The director of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Phil Laven, has said that EBU's apparent statement of support at IBC for the 720 resolution of HD were not the last words on the subject. The debate was between 720 and 1080 HD resolution.

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    Online appointment

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Online music research tool Play has hired Simon James as its new director of operations and development. James leaves BMGZomba Production Music where he was director of marketing. Play launched in April 2002 and has 20,000 subscribers worldwide.

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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 ...