TECHNOLOGY TRENDS FACILITIES 50
SURVEY
Top Kit Planned Investments 2022/2023 PIC TURE SHOP UK £10M
Facility makeover; infrastructure refresh; ontinued investment in remote capability and UX; hybrid storage for cloud capable workflows
ENV Y £2M
Flame; storage; grade; VFX F ILMS AT 59 £1.5M
New Dolby Atmos theatre; additional Flame suite; digital dailies lab; nearline storage solutions
MOL INARE £1.5M Virtualised workstations; Atmos mixing
theatre upgrades; HDR monitors; network infrastructure; additional foley record studios
TAG £1.5M Virtual production COF F EE & TV £1.4M New facility fit-out; doubling storage
capacity; enhanced security controls; screening room with Dolby Atmos
EVOLUT IONS £1.3M
Storage Avid Nexis and online SAN ABSOLUTE £1.2M
Complete tech infrastructure refresh GORIL L A £1.1M
Expansion of new facility; studio/gallery refresh; Dolby Atmos upgrade
BLUEBOLT £1M Fast playback; upgrading WFH solutions
(both new kit and upgrades); new servers; workstations. We consolidated our
business premises into one site, and didn’t renew the leases on two of our three premises
CINESITE £1M
External building works, workstations, compute render nodes, hybrid working solutions
SPLICE £500K
Storage, Flame, remote and on premise Avid workstations
DOCK10 £1M
Enhanced remote working solutions; audio dubbing suites
FR AMES TORE £1M
Storage; workstation renewals; proprietary tools
HALO £1M+
Projectors; new audio kit; storage PINEWOOD £900K
Avid S6 consoles; new shared storage CINEL AB £750K
Digital dailies capacity upgrade; storage upgrades; video playback equipment; scanning equipment
COMPANY 3 £750K
LTO8 robots; video over IP router expansion; GPU upgrades; grading upgrades
SERIOUS £750K
Storage; Avid; finishing suites; new premises
E T C £515K
Monitoring for 4k and projection; colour department upgrades; hybrid working
solutions and GUI monitoring; general CG workstation upgrades for ETC and ETC Design
CHEAT £500K
Workstations and grading hardware; storage; networking; monitoring
GHOST VFX UK £500K
Network, workstation, racks, render, storage
ROUNDTABLE £500K TPN compliance, infrastructure upgrades,
storage replacement, general maintenance and upgrades
GHOST VFX
Positive as we can attract work from abroad and use talent from around the world. With the opposite also being true, vendors from other countries compete for UK work at local market rates.”
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning is also on the march. While for many respondents to the survey, AI and machine learning is something in a distant future, for others it’s already proving useful. Absolute says it is “adopting AI to streamline our internal storage - making our asset libraries more streamlined than they could otherwise be.” Evolutions says it’s “already
seeing AI simplifying post workflows” and Racoon is “actively developing ML and AI applications to improve workflows and create efficiencies.” The Finish Line says it already
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many international clients and we frequently collaborate across our global network with our US and Canadian colleagues.” Clear Cut says it now runs “offlines globally, with editors in NZ and Canada working from our systems seamlessly. The world is getting smaller all the time.” Evolutions points out that “the
virtualisation of post and greater connectivity renders location irrelevant to post production workflows.” As many also point out, including Selected Works, global connectivity also allows “access to a global talent base.” But, says Creative Outpost,
this is both “positive and negative.
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