Embracing the move to HETV
BRIAN HARDMAN Head of Post Production Broadcast Operations at dock10
dock10 has built an enviable reputation as one of the UK’s leading television facilities, with ten purpose-built studios equipped for any size and style of show including the UK’s largest television studio - a favourite for primetime Saturday night entertainment. dock10’s extensive post production facilities offer full picture and audio post as well as VFX for broadcast, commercials and corporate customers. Working with the most advanced and innovative technology dock10 delivers hundreds of hours of content a year. dock10’s post facilities include Avid editing, Avid Pro Tools audio and voice over booths, Baselight, Resolve and Lustre and the latest Autodesk Flame suites for VFX. dock10 post has won multiple awards for both creativity and technical innovation including winning the Best Post Production House at the Broadcast Awards 2020. Find out more at
dock10.co.uk
“The primary need for the ELEMENTS ONE was driven by our foray into the world of Netflix. Taking on the full gamut of Netflix deliverables lifts the bar from traditional HD, terrestrial workflows and deliverables. We had previously worked from 4K acquisition for an HD delivery but nothing like 4K HDR. The ELEMENTS ONE was an essential component for this transition.” We’ve had a small VFX
the kind of workflows and demands that come with high-bandwidth OpenEXR workflows. Netflix were brilliant to work with. They were very
supportive and helped us with all aspects of the workflow. You start with the deliverables and work backwards. The first big challenge was that we needed a suitable SAN that could deliver an OpenEXR workflow. We spoke to our trusted
The primary need for the ELEMENTS ONE was driven by our
department for some time with some talented VFX operators and were used to doing low to mid-range commercials and VFX for traditional HD output working within a more traditional video-based storage environment. We wanted to develop and grow this department to encompass Tier 1 4K drama. But this is a big step up. The conversation began at the start of 2018. We understood that our estate wasn’t ready to support
foray into the world of Netflix. Taking on the full gamut of Netflix deliverables lifts the
bar from traditional HD terrestrial workflows and deliverables
reseller, XTFX, who support our two Autodesk Flames. The brief was familiar to XTFX, and they totally understood the requirements we had. And the ELEMENTS ONE was the obvious choice. A primary requirement
was a SAN that could mount and efficiently run the Flame estate. Overall, we wanted to have two Flames running in real-time, some VFX workstations hanging off it and Blackmagic Resolve for the
grade and to support the deliverables. We bought the ELEMENTS ONE with 380TB of
WIP storage to handle the project, and with all the versions and temps we had, we almost filled it. We must have used between 350 and 360TB. The VFX was even bigger than we had anticipated.
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VFX at dock 10
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