Earlier this year, our founder, Zeb Chadfield spoke to Broadcast about why he believes mental health behind the screen is at crisis levels. 

He covered everything from how the proportion of off-screen professionals who’ve experienced a mental health problem at work is at almost 90% - through to how he always tries to prioritise mental wellbeing at The Finish Line.

Our talented Finishing Artist, Katie Kemp, graded never-before-seen footage to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 for Brook Lapping’s new 90-minute documentary, 9/11: Life Under Attack.

All drives that are shipped around with production data on them should be encrypted. Especially when shipping rushes. Below is the most simple approach to dealing with drive encryption via software when hardware encryption isn’t available.

Not enough action is being taken to improve the mental health of post house talent, says Zeb Chadfield

The Film and TV Charity has relaunched the Looking Glass Survey, two years after the original research project uncovered a mental health emergency behind-the-scenes of the industry, and they need your help. Don’t miss your chance to complete the survey now.

Every production requires a bespoke solution for editorial; whether they are located at home, in serviced offices, or in the production office, we need to take into consideration a number of variables such as internet speed and location, as well as the data management and security demands of the project. The fundamentals of our craft editing solutions are covered below. Contact our bookings team for pricing and additional information.

This is the basic process for creating a split track file for your mix. To simplify things it’s best to break it into three phases. This is to first add the timecode burn-in, second is to create the audio mixdown for all of the sound excluding the guide VO, then the same but for VO only then the third part is exporting the viewing file.

This is a quick demo using DaVinci Resolve and Simon Says

Once you have unlocked the padlocks and pulled everything out of the case you can follow this diagram for setting up our review systems.

For our 2021 tote bag I decided to pay a little tribute to my family’s business which has been sold this year. Chaddy’s Charters is a tourism business based in Taranaki, New Zealand which takes people out to the local seal colony and has been running for over 30 years.