All articles by Will – Page 30
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NewsDe Lane Lea eyes up picture post work
Audio post house De Lane Lea is moving into picture post-production with the launch of a new department.
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NewsPixelmetrix secures Virgin monitoring deal
Pixelmetrix has signed an agreement that will see its Electronic Couch Potato (ECP) monitoring tool rolled out across Virgin Media’s digital cable TV network.
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NewsEVS snaps up OpenCube
Production server technology manufacturer EVS has bought OpenCube Technologies, the French MXF media specialist.
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NewsVitec sells Clear-Com to HME
The Videocom division of British camera peripherals and broadcast services group Vitec has sold Clear-Com Communication Systems to digital intercom specialist HME.
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NewsGrass Valley in line for major jobs cull
Technicolor is reorganising its Grass Valley division resulting in the loss of 625 jobs worldwide.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.