Post production is changing. Budgets are tighter, schedules are shorter, and the pressure to deliver high-quality content hasn’t gone away. At The Finish Line, we believe the answer isn’t to squeeze more from less, it’s to rethink how we work. That’s why we’ve built our entire model around embedded post: a deeply collaborative, flexible and cost-effective approach that treats post as a core part of production, not a handoff that happens at the end.

At BIRTV 2024, the largest film, entertainment, and broadcast tech exhibition in Asia, Kevin Shaw chaired a panel on HDR titled “HDR: The Future is Here.” The discussion featured insights from Bram Desmet, CEO of Flanders Scientific, cinematographer Yang Shu, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Cinematographers, and our founder and CVO, Zeb Chadfield. We explored how HDR is reshaping filmmaking, from breaking SDR limitations to enabling more creative freedom.

We had an absolute blast collaborating with the Rise Academy once again this year to teach “The Magic of Post Production”. Our founder and CVO, Zeb Chadfield, teamed up with Ola Olowu from Offline Post to guide young enthusiasts aged 11-18 through the wonders of multi-cam grouping, editing, mixing, compositing, and colour grading. All this magic was accomplished using the free version of DaVinci Resolve from Blackmagic Design along with the free training resources available from their website.

At The Finish Line, we’ve set up our business to be both family-friendly and high-performing, two concepts that can be seen as at odds with each other. Here are some key lessons we’ve learned along the way:

Zeb Chadfield at The Finish Line provides an easy-to-follow guide outlining what to consider when finishing in High Dynamic Range.

At The Finish Line, our primary goal is to deliver stunning pictures. By filling our company with top-tier talent and providing comprehensive support, we ensure unmatched results. We specialise in picture finishing and delivery, while offering full-service post-production wherever it’s needed.

Zeb Chadfield, founder and finishing artist at post house The Finish Line, has been taking the Apple Vision Pro for a spin to see how the new tech could be used in a professional finishing environment. Here are his first impressions.

This is a basic workflow or tips for generating ‘proxy’ media via DaVinci Resolve to be used for editing . The goal of these steps isn’t to be the perfect workflow for all productions as we customise a lot of this for specific cameras and workflows but hopefully this will help any productions looking to prep their own media to do it in a way that should make the conform process more simple when the time comes for final post. If you need to talk to us about a specific project so we can create a more refined template please get in-touch.

The Finish Line has been crowned “Gold Winner” in the Broadcast magazine best places to work in TV for the second year in a row!! If it was just the one time, we might have thought it was an accident, but now we know we are doing something right, and we would love to help more companies make the list! TV & Film is a notoriously unhealthy industry that is rife with exploitative business practices, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Below, we’ll do our best to cover simple things that you can do to make life better for your employees and help them to be able to do work they love while also enjoying life outside of work.

Celebrating our work in 2023Massive thank you to all our clients and our entire team!For more see thefinishline.pro/our-workEdited by Patrick BellMixed by Zack MarshallEpic thanks to Vaudeville Sound Group