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£50m post kitty
TV post facilities that do feature film work will soon be eligible for funding to pay for an in-house training manager thanks to a Skillset and UK Film Council initiative. As announced in Broadcast last year (11.9.03), post facilities can get a slice of£50m being made available for training as ...
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Mouse could die out
Editors may one day cut programmes the way Tom Cruise controlled his anti-crime application in the film Minority Report if research at the University of Salford comes to fruition. The university is using tracking technology from Vicon to 'demonstrate and evaluate real-world ways for people to interact with computers and ...
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Low-cost tv station
Trimedia has completed the design and implementation of a fully digital TV station for Viavision's three new for-profit channels. Built for just over£700,000 - a fraction of the cost of a usual operation - the small studios use Globecaster clip playback, an Incite server and Air Box scheduling software rather ...
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UK Post board looks to regions
The board nominations for UK Post, the Department of Trade and Industry-backed trade body, have been finalised and it is not just the usual Soho suspects that feature. While the 35 shortlisted candidates include chief executives and managing directors such as David Jeffers of MPC, William Sargent of Framestore CFC, ...
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Resolution wins three big deals
Resolution has won three big post-production contracts, thanks to a new logging system that allows producers to organise rushes and cut sequences from their own offices.
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Presteigne buys HD lenses for Athens
Presteigne Broadcast Hire has responded to an increased demand for HD equipment by purchasing Canon HD Digi Super XJ field lenses worth£1m.
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Triangle hires MD and staff
Triangle Television has expanded its operations with the appointment of a new manager and the addition of three staff.
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UK Post elections
Momentum continues to build behind the new post-production trade body, UK Post, as the submission deadline for board nominations passed last Wednesday, 31 March. More than 30 individuals have been nominated for the seven elected seats that will make up the board under chairman Mike Luckwell. A further two to ...
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Japanese show set
Equipment supplier Mitcorp is building a Japanese kitchen-style set for this year's Broadcast Production Show to help demonstrate the capabilities of a range of new Sony and Pana-sonic cameras. A sushi chef will work on site while being recorded by cameras covering DV through to HD, including the new disk-based ...
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NAB debut for JVC kit
JVC is to introduce a portable HD player/recorder at NAB to accompany its hand-held JY-HD10 HD camcorder. The CU-VH1EX will record 720p/30 and will output 1080i/60. It will allow video producers to spool HD content from their tape to any non-linear editing (NLE) system without tying up the camcorder. Once ...
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Component's boy band designs
Component Graphics has completed design on a 60-minute one-off special, Battle of the Boy Bands , created and produced by Shine Entertainment for Channel 4. CG elements were composited with footage and key words to create posters, billboards and newspaper headlines, which chart the ups ...
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P3 spices up The Sex.com story
P3 has done effects, online and grading work on The Sex.com Story , a 60-minute documentary for Five made by Making Time. The show charts the extraordinary theft of the most valuable domain name in the world, sex.com. Online and grade was completed by Michael ...
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Rushes graphics for Aids show
Rushes Post Production has completed graphics work on a 2 x 60-minute BBC specialist factual documentary about Aids. Being Positive , directed and produced by Andy Robbins, looks at the social history of the HIV and Aids epidemic. Modern graffiti-style graphic design and animation have ...
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NewsA battle royale for Bafta's craft awards
The Bafta Craft Awards have a battle royale on their hands as the BBC/A&E's Charles II: The Power and the Passion comes head to head with Talkback/BBC's The Lost Prince in three of each of their five nominations.
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Blue installs six new Avid suites
Soho-based Blue Post Production is investing almost£400,000 to expand its facility with six new Avid suites, writes Farah Jifri.
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Frontline appoints industry stalwart Cullen
Industry veteran Bill Cullen is to join Frontline Television as its new managing director, writes Rick Dacey.
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St Anne's sees key changes
The general manager of London facility St Anne's Post, Keith Williams, has assumed the role of acting managing director at the company, writes Rick Dacey.
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Clear Restructures
Soho effects house Clear has restructured its management team in an effort to attract more work from the feature film market. Simon Gosling has joined from MPC to head the commercials/short-form division, allowing Steve Garrad, currently head of production, to become head of film. Garrad will be joined by Peter ...
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Cat given BBC job
Broadcast computer systems company Cat and Mouse is to supply real-time graphics and audience interaction systems for a new BBC1 game show Come and Have a go if You Think You're Smart Enough. Cat and Mouse will provide a tailor-made system to control all aspects of the studio game including ...
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Inside crime back
MTV Studios has been awarded the contract to host the second series of the ITV1 crime show Inside Crime. The Screen Channel-produced show - which features interviews with police officers concerning ongoing investigations interspersed with up-to-date videotape packages all shot on the afternoon before ...