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NewsDownton and Red Bee triumph at Promax Awards
Downton Abbey scooped two awards at the Promax Awards for best drama promo and best use of music, while Red Bee Media picked up channel of the year for its work with CBBC.
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NewsBBC overhauls its VFX contracts
The BBC has revamped the contracts it signs with VFX houses after struggling to retrieve a half-finished programme when a division of Red Vision went into liquidation earlier this year.
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NewsNorth West IPTV fund launched
Vision+Media has launched a £50k scheme that will give indies and digital agencies in the North West the chance to win funding to create IPTV content for the BBC.
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NewsSony eyes cost-concious market
Sony is boosting its Super 35mm camera range as it looks to increase its share of the cost-conscious end of the ‘film-look’ market.
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NewsPrime Focus launches Soho animation studio
Post-production company Prime Focus has launched Amazing Spectacles, an animation studio based at its Dean Street facility in Soho.
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NewsRoot6 hires Avid's Smith
Root6 has appointed Malcolm Smith to the newly created position of senior broadcast account manager.
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NewsAvid launches 'most open' Pro Tools release
Avid has unveiled the latest version of its audio production platform Pro Tools.
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JCA halves remastering time for Sharpe's rifles
JCA has remastered 14 episodes of ITV drama Sharpe’s Rifles for HD in half the time it usually takes to turn around a restoration project.
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Scramble upgrades suites
Sound design and audio post facility Scramble Soho has upgraded its London facility.
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NewsAPTN plans £30m upgrade
The video arm of newswire Associated Press (AP) plans to spend up to £30m equipping its news teams around the world with HD cameras and upgrading its production infrastructure to a fully digital workflow.
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NewsWarner Bros invests £100m in Leavesden
Warner Bros has bought Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire, meaning a boost for the British film industry and improved facilities for TV production by the Hollywood studio in the UK.
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Waterloo Studios hires Baker-Downes
Spectrecom’s Waterloo Film Studios has recruited Suzanne Baker-Downes as studio manager.
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NewsGlobelynx feeds Sky HD
The fixed-camera network company helped to set up a live HD feed from the trading floor at CMC Markets’ City of London offices for a special feature on the City. Globelynx teamed up with network firm Colt, which has a link that connects CMC to Globelynx’s master control switch using ...
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NewsSky revamps Millbank studio
Sky News is putting the finishing touches to a move that will see the channel’s political editor Adam Boulton and special correspondents relocate from its Osterley base to a new multimedia studio at Millbank Studios in central London.
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NewsTV revenue drops at Pinewood
Pinewood Studios today acknowledged that television continues to be a challenging sector, with the film industry picking up the slack in demand for the firm’s TV facilities.
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NewsHullabaloo Studios to close
Manchester post-production facility Hullabaloo Studios is to be wound up resulting in the loss of eight jobs.
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News3D TV faces ‘cultural limitations’
A professor of graphics and imaging from Cambridge University has warned that despite the current push, 3D TV could still have too many cultural and technical limitations to go mainstream in the UK.
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NewsReliance Mediaworks expands to tap conversion market
Reliance Mediaworks, the owner of Soho’s iLab, is expanding its visual effects capability in London with a view to post converting 2D features and TV projects into stereo 3D.