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ATG signs BBC deal
Systems integrator ATG Broadcast has signed a deal with BBC Broadcast for the integration of a central storage and archive system to be installed at its new Broadcast Centre facility in west London. The initial phase of the project will allow several days' worth of programme files to be archived ...
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Mwnci buys in Avid systems
Cardiff-based post-production company Mwnci has purchased a range of kit from Avid including the first Avid DS Nitris to be installed in Wales. Also included in the deal are four Avid Media Composer Adrenalines and an Avid Unity Media Network system. Avid declined to reveal how much the deal is ...
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BBC wins NY prizes
BBC Post Production has won two golds - for best art direction and best digital effects - at the 46th New York Festival for Secret Weapons. The 3D and digital effects team at BBC Post created the effects. The producer was Big Wave Productions. ...
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Big Squid recreates shipwreck
Big Squid has produced content graphics for a new Discovery Channel series shot in high definition called Quest for Columbus. The programme, produced by New York's Engel Brothers Media, pieces together the search for the explorer's Santa Maria boat that was shipwrecked on his ...
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Farm lays down Dunkirk sound
The Farm has completed audio post work on Dunkirk , a three-part BBC drama documentary. The series recreates events in June 1940 and the race against time to save Allied soldiers trapped in France. Sound effects were tracked down via specialist archives in order to ...
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TMR expands video restoration facilities
London-based post-production facility The Machine Room (TMR) has expanded its restoration department with the addition of new video restoration and enhancement technology from US manufacturer Teranex, writes Farah Jifri.
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422 South takes Crisis control
422 South has produced visual effects, computer animations, maps and diagrams as well as on-screen graphics for BBC2's Crisis Command.
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Apple-based facility opens in London
Exactly 20 years after the first Apple Macintosh computer was sold as a consumer product, a post-production facility has been set up in London based purely on Apple G5s, writes John Oates.
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Ascent fills gaps
Ascent Media has moved quickly to replace its departing senior management team of Sam Husain and Simon Kay by appointing a new finance director and two managing directors. Terry Downing will be the new chief financial officer - he was previously finance director at AOL UK. David Barrett becomes managing ...
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Avid buys German software outfit
Editing and graphics equipment manufacturer Avid Technology has bought the German company NXN Software in a cash transaction worth around£24m, writes Farah Jifri.
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BBC Broadcast ups capability
BBC Broadcast is to tighten up the playout operations at its Broadcast Centre facility in preparation for the launch of services from the site in April.
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MPC buys licences
The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has picked up another batch of plug-in licences from visual effects sparks developer The Foundry. The company has purchased 22 remote-processing licences and four full licences of Furnace for their Shake systems. Paddy Eason, visual effects supervisor at The Moving Picture Company, said that the ...
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Leitch hires CEO
Leitch Technology Corporation has appointed Tim Thorsteinson as president and chief executive. Thorsteinson joins Leitch after leaving his position at Thomson Broadcast and Media Solutions where he was responsible for the broadcast product line. Formerly the president of the video and networking division of Tektronix, Thorsteinson also ran ...
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Soho Editors to Eire
London post-production talent company Soho Editors is to open a division in Dublin. The company will be run by managing director Therese Caldwell, previously of The Farm Digital Post Production. Soho Editors Ireland will represent Irish editors, compositors and sound engineers as well as all other post-production disciplines to the ...
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MPC finishes Hustle promos
MPC has completed effects work on a series of promos for a BBC1 drama about confidence tricksters called Hustle.
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Station ties the knot with RDF
The Station has put together the titles for RDF's Wedding Day. The 5 x 30-minute ITV1 series follows a happy couple on their big day.
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NewsAscent Media appoints new head team
Post-production giant Ascent Media has moved quickly to replace it's departing senior management team of Sam Husain and Simon Kay by appointing a new finance director and two new managing directors.
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Broadcast '04 post survey
Broadcast is to reveal the results of a major piece of research into the UK post-production sector.
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Baraka delivers FX for BBC3
Baraka has created special effects for the second series of the BBC3 comedy series.
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Corinthian shuts NW8 facilities
Corinthian Television is abandoning its landmark studios in St John's Wood to concentrate business in its facility at Chiswick Park. Eighteen jobs are at risk as a result, writes John Oates.