Post-Production

 

GRAPHICS FACILITIES

Quantel Flash Harry Suite

The Harry suite is a state-of-the-art uncompressed video post-production system which incorporates digital paint box, digital image manipulation and digital editing for both video and audio, which allows the operator to create any type of video effects, multi-layering, color correction, masking, logos, captions and animation.

 

Silicon Graphics

The Silicon graphics work station is the industry’s most advanced system for three-dimentional computer graphics animation. The dedicated software by Alias Wavefront, allows for state-of-the-art 3-D animation and image manipulation, painting and character effects animation with dynamation features.

 

G4 Macintosh

The power mac graphics station, by Apple Macintosh, is the most advanced system used today by the industry for image manipulation, painting, illustration and lay-outs for print, film and video applications.

 

Image Bank

The world’s largest film library for use by the advertising and documentary making industry. This service provides 300 hours of any imaginable shots of people, animals, locations, buildings, etc, from around the world, shot in top quality 35mm film footage and available to the user in Betacam SP format.

It is databased on a PC and with the help of an interactive CD rom, finding the desirable image is extremely easy and pleasant.

 

AUDIO FACILITIES

Fostex Audio Suite

The Fostex Suite is a state-of-the-art uncompressed digital audio post-production system, specially designed to work with video using SMPTE time-code, which allows non-linear editing and audio manipulation of 16 simultaneous channels of information. It also synchronizes with an ADAT and PC system thus providing extra audio tracks. It also features random access video, which dramatically speeds up sound for picture operations The Suite is tie-lined to all other video post-production areas of the building and has a variable acoustics recording Booth for Dubbing and Voice-Overs. A large Music and SFX Library completes the "picture".

Audio Suite Equipment

  • Yamaha ProMix Audio Digital Console
  • Mackie 1402 Audio Mixer
  • Fostex Foundation 2000RE DAW
  • Rorke Data Vmod-100 Digital Video Recorder/Player
  • Alesis XT ADAT MDM
  • Sony 60es DAT Deck
  • Marantz PMD330 CD Player
  • Tascam B20 Reel to Reel
  • PC based Audio Editing system with digital In/Out and Midi/SMPTE synchronisation.
  • Marantz CD Recorder
  • Mackie active Monitor Speakers

 For further information please refer to the production section.

 

EDITING FACILITIES

Analogue Editing Suites:

  • 3-machine Editing Suites with 3 BVW BETA SP VTR’s, Aston Motif XL character generator, caption camera for stills, Abekas digital video effects, GVG 100 component vision mixer.
  • Two Complete 2-machine cut edit suits with Sony PVW VTR's with voice-over facilities

 

 

 

Digital Non-linear Editing Suites:

  • Two Non Linear Editing Systems from Media 100
  • Advanced Editing and DVE Effects with iFinish V60 and Boris FX
  • Comprehensive Special Effects, 2-D Composition and Paint with Adobe After Effects
  • Complete analogue and digital I/O Support
  • Rendering Accelerator boards from ICE.
  • Four hours of digital video storage capacity
  • Real-time MPEG-2 Support for DVD Authoring
  • Support for all Streaming Formats

 

CONNECTIONS

  • Bi-directional 140 Mb/s fiber optic link with the local PTT and Satellite Earth Station
  • ISDN Connections
  • High speed Internet Connection

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