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Promax calls review after BBC cleans up.
The BBC's dominance of the 2002 Promax Awards has attracted stinging criticism from the industry and
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Riverside Studios gets£3m revamp
Riverside Studios, the BBC's old Hammersmith base and former home to Chris Evans' TFI Fridayshow, has been given a£3m overhaul with the addition of permanent in-house sound, lighting and vision facilities, writes Colin Robertson
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Investor group buys out Maidstone
A consortium of Kent business people is pondering its next move after paying£4.25m for complete ownership of Maidstone Studios, writes John Oates
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Resellers anxious over Avid direct sales tack
Avid resellers and users are becoming increasingly worried by the manufacturer's attempts to sell products direct to its customers, writes John Oates
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Farm posts top 45s
Soho facility The Farm has completed titles and post work on this weekend's flagship Channel 4 show The Top 100 Best Selling UK Singles. The three-hour programme, produced by Chrysalis Television, counts down the biggest songs in UK chart history. Designed by Editbox operator Marcus ...
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British Pathe online
British Pathe Ltd has put its 3,500-hour archive online and has already seen a big jump in sales. British Pathe managing director Julian Aston said: 'We've already seen a 20 per cent jump in orders. For our core audience of documentary researchers this makes life much easier and cheaper. But, ...
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5D jobs may be saved
Post-production manufacturer 5D may be brought back from the brink - and some jobs could be saved. Stan Coltman, senior manager at Tenon Recovery, said he was still hoping to sell the company and some people could be re-employed. Coltman said several interested parties had been shown round the company ...
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Cheap PCI card on sale
Broadcasters such as Channel 4, which have been pushing for post-production to be done at DigiBeta quality, will welcome a cheap-to-buy Mac card that allows producers to do uncompressed editing on Apple's Final Cut Pro. The Blackmagic Design DeckLink card, designed to connect directly to digital broadcast tape decks, allows ...
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Hogan joins TMR
Soho post facility The Machine Room has poached telecine colourist James Hogan from VCC Germany. Hogan, who has also worked for Complete Video, FrameStore and Wiseman London, will work on The Machine Room's Thomson HD Shadow and Ursa Diamond telecines. While in Germany, Hogan worked on both features and commercials. ...
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NewsMaidstone Studios sold for£4.25m
Telewest owned TVS Television has sold The Maidstone Studios to a consortium of local businessmen for£4.25 million, writes Will Strauss
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Promax calls review after BBC cleans up
The BBC's dominance of the 2002 Promax Awards has attracted stinging criticism from the industry and led to promises that the way prizes are awarded will be changed next year, writes John Oates
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Media 100 latest to offer low-cost post alternatives
US product manufacturer Media 100 is the latest company to actively try to drive down the cost of post-production by introducing cheaper versions of its products, writes Will Strauss
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5D customers wait for news
Customers and creditors of 5D are still waiting to hear the fate of the British manufacturer, writes John Oates
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Soap crashes
Wimbledon-based company Any Effects was responsible for the dramatic helicopter crash seen on Mersey Television's soon-to-be-axed soap Brooksideearlier this week. Dubbed by producer Nicky Higgens as 'the most ambitious sequence ever attempted by a soap' the stunt involved a full- size model helicopter built by ...
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Eskenazi joins Nats
Nats editor Marc Eskenazi has left the company to join the creative team at Oasis Television. Marc joins long-time colleagues Pat Gale and Liz Hayward who are now business development and marketing managers at Oasis respectively. Oasis has recently finished work on BBC's The Ship, ...
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More Discreet for MPC
Soho visual effects facility The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has ordered another Discreet Inferno HD compositor. The purchase comes as demand for high-end commercials work is soaring. The purchase brings its total of Discreet systems to 10, which includes four Infernos, two Fire effects editors, three Combustion desktop compositors and ...
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Dunton wins award
The Moving Image Society recognised innovator Joe Dunton's services to technology development by giving him the technical and scientific achievement award at last week's BKSTS prize-giving ceremony. Dunton was praised for his invention of a product that is an Ikegami HD digital video camera squeezed into the confined space of ...
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Broadcast competition
Broadcast , its monthly supplement B+and Soho Editors are offering three people the chance to win£1,000 worth of professional audio training. Up for grabs are three prizes of three days fully accredited Digidesign pro-tools training with a Soho Editors tutor. ...
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'Soho-style' facility to drive LPC growth
RTL-owned London Playout Centre (LPC) plans to add a 'Soho-style' post-production facility to its Stephen Street base as part of a bid to become a full-service facility house, writes Barbara Marshall
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Mixdown and Arena unveil new audio suites
London-based Arena Digital and Mixdown Audio have both opened new audio suites in the past few weeks, writes Barbara Marshall