TECHNOLOGY TRENDS FACILITIES 50
SURVEY
TOP KIT PLANNED INVESTMENTS 2021/2022 TWICKENHAM £10M
TV studios, VR studio, Expansion of dailies/picture post, Foley
FRAMESTORE £3M+
PCoIP, Graphic Card Renewal, Storage & Render
THE FARM £2.4M
Continued investment in remote capability, Network integration with new sister business units, IPV
Curator MAM, Audio suite upgrades and expansion
HALO £2M+
Baselights, Audio upgrades infrastructure/equipment
Extra 6-7,000 sq ft in the coming 12 months
TIMELINE £2M
Edit machines, More DNX IOs, Edit kit for edit suites
MOLINARE £1.8M Theatrical ATMOS Mixing Theatre,
S6 Mixing Consoles, Additional HDR Monitoring, Refurbishments
AXIS STUDIOS £1.5M
Compute power, workstations, network.
DOCK10 £1.5M
Infrastructure Projects EVOLUTIONS £1.5M
Baselight Grading Suite x 2, 1PB Nexis Storage, Large Dolby
Atmos Room, Property Upgrades, Hardware Refresh
FILMS AT 59 £1.5M
Additional VFX hardware / Additional Flame, Additional Baselight Assist workstations, Software upgrades
UNIT £1.5M
Pixit, VFX Machines, Render Farm COFFEE & TV £1M
New grading theatre, off-site data centre, larger and faster servers,
upgraded disaster recovery solutions, faster archiving.
COMPANY 3 £1M Futher investment to support our
current expansion of which the build will continue into 2022
ENVY £1M
ATMOS, Storage, Housekeeping THE MILL £1M
Storage, Workstations, WFH Equiment, Displays
OUTPOST VFX £1M Pipeline upgrades, Cloud
infrastructure scaling, Proprietary production software
SPS £1M Virtual Machine platform to be
extended, New Production Avid Mam installation, Migration of existing Mam assets to new Mam with superior data rich facilities, New
storage solution to enhance Premier Pro Workflows
YELLOW MOON £1M A wide range of kit to install in our
new Dolby Atmos Dubbing Theatre, New Grade / Screening Room, New ADR Stage and a Foley Stage.
New purpose built 5K sq ft premises - an investment in the region of £2M.
SPLICE £800K
ProTools, Dolby Atmos and audio studios, Remote and On premise Avid workstations, Storage
GORILLA £716K New facility expansion, Fixed rig
camera upgrades and expansion, Dolby Atmos upgrades
BLUEBOLT £600K
Upgrade primary & DR storage CLEAR CUT £600K
Suite upgrades. HETV Atmos, Grade upgrade,
4k roll out ongoing. Winter 2021 F24
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across the sector” And ITN Post thinks “there will be a huge increase in virtualised workflows, especially offline, where you can spin up edits as you need them. Scalability is key and reduction on hardware investment the way forward.” But, says Blazing Griffin, “there is
still a somewhat higher cost associated with virtualised post workflows (i.e., fully in the cloud), and until that drops and the accessibility improves, we are unlikely to invest in it. However as current hardware reaches EOL, or if we see much more significant peaks in workload requiring short term computing power, it may be a solution we explore further.”
LIKE THE REAL THING Other changes are on the way too. The increased use of virtual production is one. Albeit one in its infancy but one that will have a major impact
WITH SUCH HIGH DEMAND THAT
RATES AREN'T INCREASING MISSION
IT SEEMS SILLY
we are fully embracing with studio infrastructure in the cloud.” Sky Production Services says that it “will replace pre-existing workflows in a short period of time.” Vfx house Axis Studios agrees: “As
clients continue to embrace new ways of working, we can increase scalability and accessibility while simultaneously reducing costs for them.” Also, it opens up access to more
talent with geography and time zones becoming even less of a barrier than they were. “Remote grading sessions, for example, will not be something that only happened during the Pandemic,” adds Rumble VFX. Fifty Fifty says the “benefits around
capacity and efficiency mean that use of virtualised workflows will increase
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