High Definition
Guiding your way through the high definition process from beginning to end can seem like a challenge. As your partners in HD, BBC Post Production have the experience, understanding, talent and technology to not only advise you, but to provide you with the best tailored solution, ensuring a seamless process and giving you perfect results every time.
Our experience of working in high definition extends across Drama, Entertainment, Natural History and Sport, as well as short films and includes working for both UK and international broadcasters.
We are able to offer a full range of services which are HD capable across our sites in London, Bristol and Birmingham and can fulfil all your requirements from graphics and editing to grading and re-mastering.
With an extensive range of HD post production facilities from low-end to high-end, we can ensure that the best bespoke solution is offered to match your budgetary and programme requirements:
Our HD services:
HD Editing
Adrenaline
This latest MediaComposer is offline/online capable offering a variety of compressions ratios from 1:1 (uncompressed) to 20:1 (heavily compressed) and native DV. All resolutions can be mixed in the timeline. In addition, it can offer high quality HD without the storage costs of uncompressed HD.
Final Cut Pro
An editing system for Apple Macintosh that can be scaled to HD. It delivers powerful, precise editing tools that work in almost any format. Features include a real-time multistream effects architecture, multicam editing tools, advanced colour correction and intuitive integration with other Apple professional video and audio applications.
eQ
An uncompressed, non linear editing system by Quantel. eQ offers uncompressed online finishing for programmes that need to be delivered in HD and SD . From the first conform to final mastering and versioning the eQ combines powerful editing, effects and colour grading tools with 'resolution co-existence'.
Smoke
An uncompressed, high-end, non linear editing and finishing system, used for complex effects, powerful colour correction, motion tracking and plenty more.
Symphony Nitris
An HD capable version of Avid's non-linear editing and finishing system, with powerful colour correction and grading/styling ability and DVE functionality. Capable of working with compressed (DNxHD) or uncompressed HD formats.
HD Linear Editing
For fast turnaround linear HD tape editing. Our facilities are equiped with HD Sony MFS2000 Vision Mixers, HD Colour Correction and HD Caption Generators with access to HDCam SR, HDCam and Digibeta tape machines.
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HD Telecine & Grading
Lustre
The Lustre is a non linear system, which provides all the functionality of a standard grading platform with the advantages of a high-end effects system. The Lustre has a hugely powerful secondary colour correction capability.
Pogle
The Pogle is a grading system for either film or video and enables high quality matching between shots and scenes. It is capable of both primary and secondary colour correction.
Shadow
The HD Shadow is a telecine system designed specifically for television production and is capable of scanning at both SD and HD. The advanced CCD scanning technology and all-digital design ensure both high quality and reliability. The HD scanning is recorded straight into the Sledgehammer NAS at RGB 4:4:4
Spirit
Multi-format (16mm, S16mm, 35mm, S35mm), multi standard (601 SDTV, HDTV and 2k data) line array CCD device with primary colour correction.
Symphony Nitris
An HD capable version of Avid's non-linear editing and finishing system, with powerful colour correction and grading/styling ability and DVE functionality. Capable of working with compressed (DNxHD) or uncompressed HD formats.
Nucoda
The non-linear grading system from Digital Vision. Offers sophisticated and creative grading options.
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HD Graphics
Smoke
An uncompressed, high-end, non linear editing and finishing system, used for complex effects, powerful colour correction, motion tracking and plenty more.
HD Conversion
Alchemist Ph.c - HD
Motion Compensated Standards Convertor.
This state of the art convertor produces stunning motion compensated frame-rate conversions.
Alchemist Platinum
Snell and Wilcox's premier Standards Converter uses unique technology to upconvert your archive material for your HD programmes producing amazing results.
HD Restoration
DVASC
Reduces or eliminates the appearance of film grain, dirt & sparkle.
Scream
An accessory to Spirit for film grain reduction. Essential for Super 16 use at HD.
Scratchbox
A hard-disk recording system. Uses a pen and tablet to allow precise, rapid de-spotting.
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HD Storage
Sledgehammer
A network storage solution linking HD, online (Smoke), and grading (Lustre) devices. Allowing play into the system from our HD Telecine and upconverter, it gives a complete HD tapeless solution, only using tape as a medium for delivery.
Unity
Ultra flexible shared storage solution from Avid. Now capable of handling HD through their DNxHD compression standard.
5.1 Sound
5.1 Audio Multichannel audio technique applied to major feature films and DVDs. Now more common on HD programming particularly for delivery to overseas broadcasters . Likely to become standard requirement in future UK HD premier productions.
Technical Assessment
Dedicated High Definition Technical Review and QAR facility equipped with a comprehensive range of monitoring tools to review and analyse HD and multichannel audio material.
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