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in hardware,” says Cheat. As Evolutions says “demand
is increasing with an increased proportion of spending on finishing. That requires increased investment hence our £2.7m investment programme over two years.” The Farm too, says that both Dolby
Atmos and HDR demand is climbing which means “expanding our Atmos capability across a number of suites, and the same for HDR grade and super high bandwidth storage.” Blazing Griffin says: “this last year
we have felt the pressures of multiple HDR / Atmos projects overlapping requiring additional resources. This will likely only increase in the coming year, pushing us to build more 4K HDR capable grades/QC’s and Atmos- enabled dubbing theatres and increase our network bandwidth.” Fifty Fifty too, says that “we will
continue to invest in HDR and Atmos HE and offer our clients bespoke elegant workflows to meet their productions’ requirements.” ITN Post says it has had “a huge
increase in demand for both HDR and Atmos and we will be investing to service those commissions.” Warner Bros. De Lane Lea says
there will be “Increased Picture and Sound revenue” from more HDR and Atmos and this will be “correlated with increased investment in equipment and staffing.” JamVFX too, says it is “seeing more
requests for HDR delivery. We will be investing in this over the next 12 months.” Accommodating these workflows
takes time and money though. As BlueBolt says: “We are seeing more and more shows move to HDR which has the potential to “break” VFX, so we have to take particular care to QC in HDR.” Roundtable points to an “increased
need for storage and increased time for post to make and sign off various versions.” And Dirty Looks adds that post will “need to push up grading rates to pay for the kit.” But, as Clear Cut points out,
different segments of the market will demand more high-end finishing at different stages. “This will increase but not equally across all genres. UK
SURVEY
TOP KIT INVESTMENTS 2020/2021
TWICKENHAM FILM STUDIOS £15M
Full theatres refurb with consoles; LED panels for VP, DCI projectors,
grading and online suites, speakers/ amps for Atmos, storage
THE FARM £3.6M
Nutanix Virtualisation Platform for Central Services and Virtual Media Composer, Avid Media Central, Dell EMC Isilon, HP/Dell workstations
TIMELINE £3.2M
Additional storage, Mac Pros, HP Z8 machines, broadcast monitors, Da
Vinci panels. Built Ealing Broadcast Centre plus fit out and kit
COMPANY 3 £3M
Riedel Video over IP Routing, Pixit San Storage, Dolby Projection,
Dolby Atmos, Upgraded Baselight + Resolve Grading Systems, Brand new theatres, suites and sound studios
MOLINARE £3M Additional ATMOS Mixing and
Grading Theatres; Archive Storage, Network Infrastructure and
Switching, Baselight Upgrades, Flame Upgrades, ATMOS Audio Editing
FILMS AT 59 £2.4M
Additional Baselight Grading, System/Reference Monitors,
Storage Infrastructure / Automated Ingest systems, Remote editing infrastructure, Camera kit and
lenses, new offline space with 30 additional edit suites.
AXIS STUDIOS £2M
Storage, compute capacity, workstations, networking.
HALO £1.7M
Baselight, Storage, IT infrastructure, Theatrical upgrades, Nexis Storage, Avid hardware upgrades
DOCK10 £1.5M Dolby Atmos Dubbing Facilities, Winter 2021 F20
televisual.com
Tiered Storage - all levels, Edit Kit Upgrades, QC Upgrades
SPS £1.5M
Avid ISIS upgrade to Nexis E5, Network upgrade to 10 Gig on 100
Gig Switches, XS servers upgraded to XT -VIA , 2 more HDR capable Edit suites.
ENVY £1.3M
CAPTURE and REMOTE, grade , Offlines, Storage, added 47 more rooms
EVOLUTIONS £1.2M 24 Additional Offlines, 3 Dolby
Atmos Suites, Edit and Nearline Storage, UHD HDR Monitoring,
UHD HDR Mastering, Data Centre Infrastructure, Added Floor in Sheraton Street
THE MILL £1.2M
Storage, new workstations, grading hardware, pipeline infastructure, Reference monitors, Viewing
monitors, PCOIP/Infrastructure SPLICE £1.2M
Baselight; Storage; LTO 8; ProTools, Dolby Atmos and
audio studios, UHD/HDR Online editing and monitoring (Multiple BVM X310), Remote and On premise Avid workstations,
Network infrastructure: Software development, New 50 room facility opened
ROUNDTABLE £1M
New finishing facility focused on the needs of high end documentaries. 4k DI theate, Dolby Atmos mixing
studios, Baselights, upgraded and trebled offline capacity
OUTPOST VFX £750K
Cloud infrastructure, Hardware, Software
BLUEBOLT £640K New workstations, teradici boxes/
cards for all workstations, upgraded render farm
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