TECHNOLOGY TRENDS FACILITIES 50


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HDR and Atmos deliverables are fast becoming standard practice in post as is hybrid working. And there are new tech advances on the march including virtual production and artificial intelligence


ach year in the Facilities 50 survey, as well as asking post houses about their businesses and the state of the sector in


general, we also ask them what the big trends will be in the technology they use over the short and medium term.


The pandemic wrought 31.2M


Amount post houses spent last year on kit


accelerated change to working practices across the sector, and many of those transformations look like staying for the long term. There were changes in


40.6M £ Amount post


houses plan to spend next year on kit


Winter 2022 F20


technology already on the boil too since the influx of HETV work, in particular, took hold in the UK. The demand for both HDR and Dolby Atmos deliverables has steadily increased with many broadcaster customers now expecting the highest quality as standard.


HIGH AND MIGHT Y As Outpost VFX says: “HDR has become the standard practice in the industry, particularly with streaming production companies. This has been incorporated into our pipeline for over a year now and we expect this to be the continued way of working.” Racoon too says that as both


HDR and Atmos HE “are becoming more industry standard as lead master formats, we will see an increase in productions requesting


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these services.” “HDR is commonplace now for


all scripted HETV as is Atmos,” says Gorilla, pointing out that with more of the market targeting this work “lower budget factual work will be harder to place.” Twickenham Studios says that


“Atmos HE demand in particular has increased” and Molinare says that demand for both Atmos HE and HDR “is only going up. We’ve answered this in expanding our Flame department and ensuring all our grade suites are HDR capable. We’re already running four Atmos HE rooms, we plan to upgrade at least three next year to answer the demand.” Pinewood post says that “more


and more clients ask for Atmos HE and this trend looks set to continue.” Bleat says Atmos demand is “high - almost 50% of quotes are for Atmos.” Picture Shop says, “these new


picture and sound formats being integrated within mainstream at-home devices that support the delivery of the higher spec technical content means the demand for this will only increase.” And post houses are investing to


make sure they keep a slice of this lucrative work. “This continues to increase, and we are seeing this as a requirement for projects we are


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