Business
ARRI creates dedicated business unit for virtual production
ARRI Solutions designs, engineers, builds, and operates virtual production environments of all sizes
Production & Post
Production & Post
Cloud production control room goes live
Atomos has launched its cloud-based control room, Atomos Studio, which makes "live video production and remote collaboration affordable, accessible and easy", the company said
Production & Post
Vizrt and ROE Visual partner on XR broadcast experience for NAB 2023
Vizrt’s Viz Engine 5 and GhostFrame will "bring unprecedented multi-angle virtual graphics and video wall control to the show floor"
Production & Post
Milk VFX opens Dublin studio
The studio will be led by Milk VFX supervisor and Dublin native, Ciaran Crowley
Production & Post
Nominations announced for BAFTA Television Craft Awards
Bad Sisters, The English, The Essex Serpent, and This is Going to Hurt lead the nominations
Production & Post
Jigsaw24 Media agrees full-service partnership with pixitmedia
Agreement also coincides with Jigsaw24 Media’s first pixitmedia integration project, for London-based facility Fifty Fifty
Production & Post
Cooke S4/i lenses capture The Last of Us
Cinematographer Ksenia Sereda explains why she chose to use the lenses on the hit HBO series
Business
ITV reduces carbon emissions by over a third
ITV will continue to embed sustainability criteria into its selection processes and contracts in order to ensure it works with suppliers that align to the...
Production & Post
Blackmagic Design’s products used on over 20 Oscar nominees
Among the technology used by creatives were the company's digital film cameras, DaVinci Resolve editing, grading, visual effects (VFX) and audio post production software
Production & Post
High Wycombe’s eight-stage studio receives planning permission
Owners Stage Fifty say they also plan to build live broadcast sound stages for homebound unscripted television
Production & Post
Garden Studios partners with Anna Valley on second virtual production stage
The new 7750 ssq ft stage features a 26 x 4.5m ROE BPV2 semicircular volume at Garden Studio’s Park Royal studio complex
Production & Post
Wales becomes home to UK’s first national broadcast archive
Content from BBC Cymru Wales, ITV Cymru Wales and S4C has been digitised for the archive
Production & Post
WFTV to celebrate women in post production
The award "recognises someone who consistently goes above and beyond the expectations of the role and shows a genuine curiosity and passion for post...
Production & Post
Telestream introduces new PRISM MPP for remote workflows
All three models can be mounted in an equipment room and accessed via KVM or WebRTC network connectivity, making them available for live and remote...
Production & Post
London welcomes new cloud-enabled post production facility
ELMNTL includes suites for colour grading, VFX and CG/motion graphics, with multiple support stations for production planning, ingest, QC and delivery
Production & Post
New 6,500 sq ft virtual production studio to open in Maidenhead
CUBE Studio includes a 10.5x5.5m LED volume, crafted with Unilumin Upad IV LED panels, which feature HDR image quality
Audio
BOB gets new audio console down by the Riverside
Outside broadcast specialist Riverside Television has chosen Calrec Brio 36 for its 'bigger outside broadcast' (BOB) truck
Production & Post
Adobe’s creative applications bring ten Oscar-nominated films to the big screen
The company's technology was used on Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, as well as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Top Gun:...
Production & Post
Case study: Creating the beauty and horror of All Quiet on the Western Front
Editor Sven Budelmann discusses his work on the Oscar-nominated drama, and how his close collaboration with director Edward Berger led to creating a film...
Production & Post
Universal Pixels delivers in-camera visual effects for BBC drama Better
Instead of using a traditional low loader, the Universal Pixels team built an enclosed box, which was driven by disguise GX2c media servers
Production & Post
New virtual production centre to honour Martin Scorsese
The New York-based centre will feature two 3,500-square-foot double-height, column-free stages, two 1,800-square-foot television studios, as well as state-of-the-art broadcast and control rooms
Production & Post
AWS Elemental MediaConvert adds support for enhanced colour processing
MediaConvert can generate Dolby Vision dynamic metadata for on-the-fly jobs to convert non-Dolby Vision HDR content into Dolby Vision
Production & Post
LucidLink powers production workflows for award season contenders
LucidLink Filespaces has facilitated collaboration and workflows on the likes of the BBC's The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, and Hulu/Disney...
Production & Post
CVP celebrates female cinematographers as part of #IWD2023
Company is staging a free exhibition of images shot by members of illuminate, a society of UK-based female cinematographers
Production & Post
LAMDA to invest in virtual production and mocap technology
The organisation also plans to update its audio suite, and replace halogen lights with environmentally-friendly LEDs
Production & Post
Leveraging emerging HDR technologies for streaming and broadcast content
High dynamic range (HDR) is making rapid progress in replacing legacy standard dynamic range (SDR) as the next generation of TVs, streaming services and...
Production & Post
New mobile app uses advanced artificial intelligence to create mocap videos
Move.ai’s software extracts natural human motion from video using advanced AI, computer vision, biomechanics and physics, automatically retargeting the data to a character rig
Production & Post
James Corden’s production company behind new Sunderland TV and film studio
Crown Works Studios will include up to 20 premium sound stages suitable for major feature film and HETV productions
Production & Post
Gravity Media unveils location post production solution with mRes Pronology
The companies said the new solution is particularly useful for reality TV series as mRes enables users to continuously record for multiple hi-resolution and...
Production & Post
DPP asks if media industry is on the brink of an automated localisation revolution
The new growth area is voice-to-voice synthesis (known as ‘voice cloning’), which is a way to blend human performance with the benefits of machine...
Production & Post
How is virtual production impacting editors?
Shailendra Mathur, vice president, architecture and technology, at Avid takes a look at how virtual production workflows, techniques and technologies are now impacting more...
Production & Post
The visual Power of the Doctor
2022 saw the end of Jodie Whittaker’s time as the Doctor. Her final episode has more visual effects than any other in Doctor Who’s...
Production & Post
ZOO Digital supports localisation rollout for major Hollywood studio
The content producer is also using the company's ZOOstudio to manage localisation across its vendors
Production & Post
All Quiet on the Western Front, Elvis lead BAFTA Film Awards technical winners
The Netflix-produced All Quiet on the Western Front was the night's big winner, picking up seven awards
Production & Post
Pinewood Studios granted permission to build 21 new sound stages
The expansion is expected to create 8,000 new jobs and inject £640 million a year in to the UK economy
Production & Post
CJP Broadcast builds virtual production and mo-cap suite at University of Sunderland
Systems integrator CJP Broadcast Service Solutions has delivered a complete virtual studio with motion capture facilities for the University of Sunderland. For virtual production,...
Production & Post
30 seconds or less: How The Mill showcased HP’s new high-powered workstation’s rendering capabilities
Tim Kafka, head of creative operations at The Mill Los Angeles, reveals how the company worked with HP to drop a Z8 Fury workstation...
Production & Post
Report: Fewer people considering leaving TV and film industry due to mental health
Some 80 per cent of respondents to the Looking Glass 2022 survey agreed that they sensed a positive change to the industry’s culture and...
Production & Post
Avatar: The way of Water, The Rings of Power, ABBA Voyage win at Visual Effects Society Awards
Annual awards celebrate work that "elevates the art of storytelling and exemplifies the spirit of adaptation and ingenuity"
Production & Post
Canon: ‘New Tech Masters’ are the future of filmmaking
The report posits the idea of Set Libs, a greenscreen library subscription service where VR camera experts could standardise detailed location shoots created through...
Production & Post
Case study: Adding realism, light and deep colour to Norwegian film Kampen om Narvik
How colourist Dylan R Hopkin utilised Davinci Resolve to being the drama to life, including greenscreening the lead character's coat to create the right...
Production & Post
ITV, S4C sign up to body aiming to improve working life of freelancers across UK TV industry
The Freelance Charter aims to improve the working life of freelancers across the television community and address the working practices and culture of people across...