All articles by Will – Page 48
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NewsEnvy adds to business development team
Envy is expanding its business development team with the addition of two new members of staff.
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NewsSlumdog supervisor starts Soho VFX outfit
The visual effects supervisor on Slumdog Millionaire has teamed up with a former head of imaging from Mill Film to start a Soho VFX company.
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NewsPepper lands bulk Kudos deal
Pepper Post has secured a multi-series post-production deal with Spooks producer Kudos Film & Television.
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NewsBBC Special Projects engineers launch company
Five former BBC engineers have launched a new company after buying kit from the soon-to-be-defunct BBC Special Projects unit.
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FeaturesMediaCityUK topping out
The view from the 19th floor of the 300ft tall Studio Block South Tower at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays.
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NewsSumners opts for Unity Isis
Manchester post-production facility Sumners is starting the process of consolidating its central storage with the installation of a 32 terabyte Avid Unity Isis Storage Area Network (SAN).
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NewsNice Biscuits recruits Flame artist Young
Nice Biscuits Post Production is adding a fourth Smoke/Flame suite to its Soho facility and has recruited a new Flame artist to drive it.
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NewsEnvy and Weta plump for Nuke
The Foundry has had a double success with its Nuke compositor, selling licences to London’s Envy and New Zealand’s Weta Digital.
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NewsBlue-Zoo calls for animation industry support
Animator Blue-Zoo wants the government to step in and counteract a ‘crisis’ currently engulfing England’s animation industry.
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NewsAltered Images goes Wild
Reseller Altered Images has appointed Andy Wild to the role of pre-sales consultant and senior support engineer.
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NewsRoot6 adds to training programme
Reseller Root6 is to expand the range of external training courses it offers for runners and edit assistants.
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News021 mulls cuts after ITV OB loss
021 Television is considering making redundancies after an OB contract it had with ITV for live Champions League football coverage was awarded to SIS LIVE.
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NewsScottish post houses team up
Two of Scotland’s largest independent post-production facilities have formed a new joint company after working together on a BBC3 drama series.
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Ilab-Rocket office closure leads to job losses
Ilab-Rocket will close its Frith Street operation this month, resulting in a round of redundancies.
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NewsFacilities briefs 3 July
Facilities news in brief from Broadcast magazine dated 3 July 2009 including 422 South, Molinare, Tide UK and Sequence Post.
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NewsJCA signs British Pathe deal
JCA has signed a long term contract with the new owners of the British Pathe library that will see all physical and digital archive content stored at the London digital media services company.
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NewsEdit Store in Avid upgrade
The Edit Store has completed a major upgrade of its London facility, replacing its original central storage with a new 24 terabyte Avid Unity storage area network and adding three Media Composers.
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NewsRichard Taylor 1945-2009
Richard Taylor, the former managing director of Quantel and one of the industry’s most influential engineers, has died.
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NewsDa Vinci Resolve gets Red update
Da Vinci Systems is releasing a new version of its Resolve software that enables users of R-Series colouring systems to grade native digital motion picture files including debayered Red RAW files from the Red One camera.
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NewsFifty Fifty completes TT job
Boutique post house Fifty Fifty Post Production has bought a new Halo router and completed an around the clock transfer job for North One Television to aid coverage of The Isle of Man TT race.