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EBU HD amendment
The director of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Phil Laven, has said that EBU's apparent statement of support at IBC for the 720 resolution of HD were not the last words on the subject. The debate was between 720 and 1080 HD resolution.
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NewsTechnicolor to move to new HQ
Technicolor Creative Services is to move to a new state of the art west London facility as part of a£5m investment.
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TSI TX to offer live football services
TSI TX has purpose-built a new live sports production area to cope with a two-year deal between itself, BT Broadcast Services and Uefa and Fifa.
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Filmlight goes into video post market
Filmlight Digital Film Technology is targeting the video post-production market for the first time.
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ABS ups capacity
Advanced Broadcast Services (ABS) has increased its broadcast capacity by 15 channels with the opening of Unit 15, its state-of-the-art playout pod. ABS has set up terminals via internet links to
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Editor joins Pepper
Covent Garden facility Pepper has appointed Justin Eely from Oasis Television as a senior editor and Marco Fabbri from Avid Technology as a junior editor and DS specialist. Eely has worked on projects such as Sex Traffic, Foyle's War I, II and III and State of Play during his 15-year ...
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Sales for Monet
Imagineer's recently launched system Monet has found its first customers. Cineimage, Capital FX and Mac Million have all bought the post-production tool. Monet is used to replace elements in moving images. The technology for Monet was developed in collaboration with Cinesite (Europe) Ltd for use on the feature film ...
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New scout in place
DVD authoring and design house Cheerful Scout has employed senior producer Miles Furnell to produce original programming for DVD extras. Furnell, previously of The Edge Picture Company, has more than 10 years of production experience and has produced more than 100 programmes in his career. Many have won prestigious awards ...
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Golden sq 3D move
Soho-based Golden Square Post Production has appointed senior 3D animator Sean Elliott to head its expanding 3D department. Elliott moves to Golden Square after nearly five years at Glassworks. Elliott has worked on a number of high-profile commercial projects, including jobs for Aero, Churchill, Ford and the latest Keane promo ...
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Liquid marks 40 years of Horizon
Liquid TV has created the titles for the new series of Horizon. Celebrating its 40-year history, the sequence attempts to create a sense of journey and discovery by showing images of the natural world; dramatic balls of fire, fisheye landscapes and billowing clouds. The ...
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ITV1 drama belongs to Pepper
Pepper has completed all picture post-production work on ITV's forthcoming drama Belonging. The drama features Brenda Blethyn as a woman whose husband leaves her for another woman and is left in charge of his elderly relatives. The drama was shot on 16mm film and ...
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Code titles BBC4 theatre doc
Code Design and Direction has produced the titles for the upcoming BBC4 theatre documentary Theatre Biz for Freelance Film Partners. The three-part series looks at London's West End, Edinburgh fringe theatre and graduating drama students. Creative director Chris Jennings designed the sequence. The FX were produced by Code's Bryony Evans ...
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Directors to go as VTR restructures
The VTR Group is to shed some of its most senior staff including managing directors and has earmarked up to£1m for redundancy payments.
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Pinewood aims to increase TV studio space
Pinewood Shepperton is planning to expand its television facilities following a 17% rise in business over the last six months.
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Moving Picture bids
WPP, Kodak, Thomson Multimedia's Technicolour and former Carlton chairman Michael Green are being touted as likely bidders for The Moving Picture Company. ITV declared that it wanted to sell its non-core assets earlier this year ( Broadcast , 28.6.04). WPP already owns post-production companies such ...
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Support for Apple
Former NMR managing director Harry Grinling is opening a London office for his Apple training, technical support and integration services business, Support Partners. The Greek Street office in Soho will provide remote, on-site and telephone 'breakdown recovery' services to producers, broadcasters and facilities using Apple software including Final Cut Pro. ...
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Charter's new man
Chris Davies has joined broadcast rental company Charter as a senior engineer. Davies has worked with digital flyaway systems on Euro 2004 and the 2002 World Cup finals. He previously worked for Star TV, at the time when it became one of the first stations to integrate digital programming.
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Parkinson given 3sixty vision
3sixtymedia has created the title sequence for ITV1's first Michael Parkinson series. The programme opens with close-up and wide shots displaying the presenter's mannerisms. The titles, directed and designed by Nadine Weston, were shot on 35mm film, offlined in Avid then graded and composited by Flame artist Simon Blackledge. Layers ...
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Bollywood role for St Anne's
St Anne's and Sumners have finished post-production work on Feelgood Fiction's My Life as a Popat. The kids' comedy drama is about a 12-year-old who escapes into Bollywood dream worlds. St Anne's editors Rob Cooper and John Ellis onlined and colourist Kevin Horsewood graded. ...