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China Blue adds£250,000 ProTools HD studio
Audio post house China Blue is investing nearly£250,000 in constructing a 5.1 ProTools HD studio with the aim of bolstering client retention, writes Rick Dacey
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The Station hires Avid op
Avid DS operator Carl Greep has joined The Station. Greep, who has previously worked at Red and Red Square, is joining the graphics department headed by chief designer Sharon Spencer. The appointment topped off a period of significant expansion for the D'Arblay Street facility, which has opened a second office ...
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Royal approval
Software developer Curious and wireless camera innovator Link Research have each been rewarded for business innovation with the Queen's Award for Enterprise. Curious, an eight-person software company based in London, received its award for its World Map software, which enables users to create broadcast quality still and animated maps. Link ...
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Sky buys pinnacles
BSkyB has bought two Pinnacle DekoCasts to create 'automated interstitials' during ad breaks on the international feed of Sky News. The new machines will take info from Sky News data streams
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BBC buys final cut
BBC Technology has added Apple's Final Cut Pro HD editing software to the workflow for its Colledia production product. Colledia - which enables production staff to access electronically stored tapeless material on a shared IT platform - will be rolled out across the BBC over the next five to 10 ...
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DGP adds dvd site
Soho facility DGP is adding a second site to allow it to do more DVD work at its current premises. Last year, the company produced masters for over 60 million DVDs. The company is the only Warner Bros DVD affiliate in the UK and uses its recommended Toshiba authoring kit. ...
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Tips for directors
The tips section in last week's feature 'Crews take aim' (Broadcast, 23.4.04) should have been credited to Ian Sands. For more information on 'Keeping crews happy', see www.iansands.co.uk/links/crew.
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Channel 4 plans Shameless Christmas
Channel 4 has commissioned a 90-minute Christmas special of its hit drama Shameless. The Paul Abbott-scripted show, made by Company Pictures, will start filming in two weeks' time. C4 head of drama John Yorke commissioned the show. A second series of 8 x 60-minute episodes is also in production.
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Teachers' writers do battle in Broadcast Young Talent Awards
Two writers who worked on the Tiger Aspect series Teachers will go head to head in the battle to win the coveted young writer of the year award at this year's Broadcast Young Talent Awards.
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Thomson brings super slo-mo to HD cameras
Manufacturer Thomson has developed a camera system that does super slo-mo in HD, writes Will Strauss at NAB.
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Last Night of Proms to go global with HD
BBC Outside Broadcasts is refurbishing an OB truck so that it can produce an HD version of The Last Night of the Proms for the international market, it was announced at NAB in Las Vegas.
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invests in Avid ProEncode
P3 last week became the first UK post house to purchase Avid's Unity ProEncode product as part of a raft of system upgrades costing£250,000, writes Rick Dacey.
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All shook up at NAB
Apple took the opportunity to announce Shake 3.5, its next step in shape-shifting special effects, among a number of new products and initiatives at NAB this week. Apple has integrated shape-based morphing and warping into Shake 3.5, which Apple's vice-president of application marketing, Rob Schoeben, claimed are 'the most highly ...
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Discreet support
Discreet editing and visual effects systems will support Apple's Final Cut Pro interchange format in upcoming versions, as announced at NAB in Las Vegas this week. The integration will be a boon for editors who use both Final Cut Pro and Discreet's systems - Smoke, Fire and Lustre. Editorial ...
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bow tie orders HD
Bow Tie Television last week commissioned the purchase of a second high definition OB truck owing to increased demand for the format. The truck will cost Bow Tie over£500,000 but managing director John Knopp felt the investment is justified: 'The first four months of this year are going to have ...
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Oaten joins golden
Colin Oaten has left his role as producer at VTR, where he had been for nine years, to take on new duties as senior producer at Golden Square Post. Although his experience is primarily in the commercials and promos industry, Oaten has been taken on due to his involvement in ...
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Outpost in BBC deal
Pinewood-based Outpost Facilities has been commissioned to do online and offline edits on the BBC's new sitcom, Everything I Know About Me. The programme is currently in pre-production and shooting is due to start at Pinewood studios in the coming weeks. The
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Beam.TV and IMD pioneer digital ad delivery
Beam.tv and Independent Media Distribution (IMD) last week became the first companies in the UK to digitally deliver a television commercial to a broadcaster via the internet when a Nestle commercial was delivered via an end-to-end digital IP network to Viacom-owned MTV, writes Rick Dacey.
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Williams to head St Anne's
St Anne's Post general manager Keith Williams has been confirmed as the new managing director of the company following the sudden departure of Bruce Everett, who has left to return to his previous career as a film and television post-producer.
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Monet shows at NAB
Imagineer systems will unveil Monet, its start-to-finish image insertion solution, at NAB next week. The product is used for inserting images, moving or still, into moving footage. Monet was developed in collaboration with Cinesite for use on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban but is touted as having widespread ...