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IN-HOUSE FACILITIES Post: the
The demand for high end television content driving production to frenzied levels is also having an impact on post, with in-house facilities easing the pressure and also adding value. Michael Burns reports
“Sharing the same office network offers many collaborative advantages”
PIERA CUTTICA
MANOR PRODUCTION SERVICES
by the democratisation of editing technology, so what’s driving this wave? “It certainly feels like there
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are many more [in-house post facilities] now,” says Zinc Media Group CTO, Olly Strous. “It’s not a light undertaking, but there is more content being made than ever before. The combination of steady commissions keeping edits full, the
he amount of post production work being taken in-house is on the rise again. Previous trends in this direction have been spurred
cost of entry reducing significantly as hardware has fallen in price, and cloud SaaS models that mean you can switch on what you need on a monthly basis, [has had an effect].” Kyran Speirs, Post Production
Manager at Arrow, agrees, but adds that the post houses have been as busy as ever. “There is space and a need for both,” he says. “With so much content being produced it makes sense. If the more complex and tech-intensive jobs with HDR and Dolby Atmos with the bigger budgets are going to the post houses and some of the more traditional workflows with smaller budgets are staying in-house, then that’s a win for both.” Manor Production Services offers
an in-house post production facility for All3Media Group Companies, but they aren’t obligated to use its services. “We want companies to want to use us,” says Head of Post
Production, Piera Cuttica. “We run as a not for profit operation, flexible with [All3Media companies] on overruns, additional costs and all the things that can create overspends, to keep as much of the programme budget on the screen. That said, we do look to break even over the year and do our best to keep post production budgets real.”
Post on tap According to Speirs, Arrow’s
facility has grown from a handful of offline edits to “a fully-fledged post production service” over the last few years. “We can cater for up to 25 offline suites, conforms, pre-grades, grades, online and audio, both stereo and 5.1 and even foley,” he adds. “We offer graphics and composition and painting out work. We have a complex cloud-based infrastructure that gives access to view all media [as well as] AI which can help
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