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delivering in the next five years, hence the investment in building a new Dolby Atmos Theatre,” says Films at 59. Directors Cut says that, while
there’s a “steady increase” in demand, it’s “not the norm.” with more HDR and UHD picture work requested than Dolby Atmos as yet. It depends on the customer.
Blazing Griffin says that while it doesn’t expect the “ever-increasing demand for HDR and Atmos content within HETV and Theatrical to let up in the coming years, UK broadcasters remain somewhat wary of when to spend the extra money to go 4K HDR based on the potential for international sales, and this may continue in the next 12 months with the economic outlook and financial constraints.” Creative Outpost says that “there
is demand growing for HDR in commercials,” but it’s “rather slow. Dolby Atmos is certainly on the rise in advertising. Hard to put a % growth on it, but we see more and more projects that request it.”
BRICK IN THE WAL L While tech like HDR and Dolby Atmos deliverables are fast becoming standard practice for many post customers, virtual production is still a nascent workflow. As Suite says: “This remains an expensive and niche usage case. This will no doubt change in the future.” For many, it’s an exciting
prospect. “The opportunities could not be stronger than they are at this stage in virtual production,” says Cinesite Virtual Production is already
being used throughout many genres. “We have been working with virtual production in a number of projects already and expect this to increase in the future,” says Outpost VFX. Sky Production Services says that virtual production “is now part of our standard offering and we expect this to continue.” Dock10 says VP is having an
impact “across the whole business but massively in sport through
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Top Kit Investments 2021/2022 MOL INARE £2.5M
New Dolby Atmos and 4K HDR grading theatre;
pixitmedia pixtstor centralised storage installation to support Online department; new Flames along with upgrades; Baselight upgrades; audio suite upgrades to Atmos; Atmos delivery rooms; two new foley record studios; ADR expansion.
PIC TURE SHOP UK £2M
Nutanix platform for central infrastructure and Avid Interplay; GPFS storage (scripted); Threadripper based Nucoda and Flame for 50P
finishing capability (unscripted); Baselight estate expansion (scripted); Atmos Audio capability
(scripted & unscripted); IPV Curator MAM for short form (Managed Service Contracts)
AXIS £1.5M
MORE AND MORE CLIENTS ASK
FOR ATMOS HE PINEWOOD
Compute power, workstations, network. BL EAT £1.5M
Speaker monitoring, network Infrastructure; computers etc
DOCK10 £1.5M
Workstation hardware; monitoring; edit and audio upgrades; virtualised hardware; grading suite upgrade
TWICKENHAM £1.5M
Imax Dolby Atmos speaker and monitoring system, Avid S6 controllers
ENV Y £1.3M
Capture and remote; sound/audio; storage; sublet Margaret Street, added another floor at Holden House, opened Capture office in Bristol
BLUEBOLT £1.2M
Storage (both new kit and upgrades); workstations; render nodes; remote working hardware
EVOLUT IONS £1.1M Atmos Studio, grading suite, Sony X310s; new edit
workstations in datacentre and on premise. Opened new floor in Sheraton Street adding 22 offline suites
GORIL L A £1.1M
New facility; additional 40 server based Avids and storage; additional Baselight; added building in Bristol and expanding with two more floors.
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