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    Red Bee goes for growth with restructure

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Multimedia and playout facility Red Bee Media is restructuring in a bid to expand the business over the next year.

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    TWI takes Gfx man

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Production and distribution company TWI has recruited Blue Gfx head of animation Andrew Gould to work at Mediahouse, its video and audio post-production arm, as head of graphics. Gould has been involved in broadcast animation and effects for 15 years, and was previously head of 3D at DVD and graphics ...

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    Skaramoosh hire

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Post-production and animation specialist Skaramoosh has taken on MPC animator Michael Parker to join its 3D department as 3D Maya artist. During his two years at MPC Parker animated on The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs for the BBC and on commercials. In addition, the company has recently boosted its kit ...

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    VTR MD moves on

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    VTR's managing director, Kate Sturgess, has left to join Shoreditch-based DVD production company The Pavement as director of operations. Sturgess will work in the new role, which includes managing the production team and developing future product innovations. She will also oversee The Pavement's UMD video production for Sony's Playstation Portable.

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    Fiftyfifty edit move

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Soho post-production house Fiftyfifty has recruited Avid online editor Coco Lorenzo. Lorenzo, who has freelanced for Class Films on Bravo's Sin City series and on Granada's Counting Sheep, will focus on promos and corporate projects. She replaces Abraham Teweldbrhan, who has joined TSI.

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    FCP offered online

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Post facility Clear Cut Pictures is launching a web-based sales department. Clear Cut Pro will sell and support a range of Final Cut Pro edit stations and other Apple products. The two-strong team includes Clear Cut's former machine room co-ordinator Ben Plumb who will act as product specialist and Oliver ...

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    Beeton honoured

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Pepper Post-Production colourist Chris Beeton has scooped the lifetime achievement award at this year's RTS Craft & Design Awards, the first colourist to win the award. Beeton has been a colourist for 30 years and has worked at the BBC and TVI. He has worked on programmes including Central TV's ...

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    Evolutions' Psychic Challenge

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Evolutions has designed the titles and branding for Britain's Psychic Challenge, a new series by Town House TV for Five. In the 7 x 60-minute programme, hosted by Trisha Goddard, participants undertake challenges and tests to convince a panel of sceptics of their psychic abilities. The titles depict how psychics ...

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    ArenaP3's Abnormal job for Sky

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    ArenaP3 has finished the post-production on the Media Trust's Abnormally Funny People. The documentary follows a group of disabled comedians rehearsing, producing and performing a comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Colourist Blair Wallace graded the difficult lighting conditions of the footage on Pogle Platinum to give it a ...

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    Jump rebrands Record show

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Jump has rebranded ITV Productions' The Record of the Year, an annual show where the public votes for their favourite chart song, performed on the night. The title sequence, commissioned by ITV's Lee Connolly, shows shapes fusing together to reveal the performers. Senior designer Keith Livingstone modelled the logo in ...

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    Fremantle Media in mobile TV launch

    2005-12-01T08:30:00Z

    Fremantle Media is set to enter the burgeoning UK mobile TV market with plans to launch a local version of its upcoming US service Thumbdance.

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    Netting the future post profits

    2005-12-01T08:00:00Z

    The traditional role of the post-production house is coming under imminent threat from cost-cutting and in-house operations, so how are the facility houses planning to earn their keep in the future? Kate Large reports.

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    Archers crowned BBC's download king

    2005-11-30T07:58:00Z

    8am:The Archers has beaten Chris Moyles' Radio 1 breakfast show to take the top spot for the corporation's most listened-to radio programme online.

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    Ascent reshuffle will simplify ops

    2005-11-24T08:30:00Z

    Ascent Media is to restructure its facilities and management team in a move which its European managing director, Brenda Smith, said will simplify the company's operations and turn its facility brands into complementary rather than competitive businesses.

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    Smoke and Mirrors acquires Red Post

    2005-11-24T08:30:00Z

    Two of Soho's most prolific visual effects boutiques have now become one with the news that Smoke and Mirrors has acquired Red Post-Production for around£1m.

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    Component sells Avid kit to Clear Cut

    2005-11-24T08:30:00Z

    Post facility Component Ltd has sold the Avid kit belonging to its hire arm Central Rental to Clear Cut Hire for an estimated£300,000.

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    HD conference

    2005-11-24T08:30:00Z

    The BBC and BSkyB are to unveil their high-def strategies at next year's Broadcast HD conference. BSkyB chief executive Richard Freudenstein will give the keynote speech on Sky's HD channel strategy and the production team behind BBC's Planet Earth will provide a case study on HD post-production. The conference will ...

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    New editor for TSI

    2005-11-24T08:30:00Z

    Post-production facility TSI has recruited Fifty Fifty post-production's Abraham Teweldebrhan as a non-linear editor. Teweldebrhan joins its 15-strong editing team after nearly three years at Fifty Fifty, where he worked on projects including Shakedown for MTV and Bullet Boy for Verve Films/BBC.

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    SoundStation sold

    2005-11-24T08:30:00Z

    Broadcast hire outfit Hyperactive has bought audio facility SoundStation for an undisclosed sum. The package included five Protools systems, boosting Hyperactive's non-linear editing products to over 100. Hyperactive's chief executive designate, Lawrie Read, said he hoped the new set-up would appeal to clients wanting just one company from which to ...

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    Condor ups staff

    2005-11-24T08:30:00Z

    Condor Post Production has bolstered its staff with several new recruits. Red Bee's Andrew Mackintosh and Paul Kavanagh have joined the 3D animation and design department as 3D consultant and 3D artist respectively. Lead colourist David Appleby switches from MPC and starts at Condor from 12 December, while Clear's Grant ...