At The Finish Line, we are all about delivering the best images possible and the key to doing this is our approach; having incredible Finishing Artists who take full ownership of picture from a finished conform right through to the final review. But what is a Finishing Artist? We couldn’t explain this more eloquently than Maggie did in her recent Post Perspective interview:

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.

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.

The team at EditShare interviewed me recently and you can find links to both interviews here. They also wrote this story about how The Finish Line came to be which I’ve included below.

Client: October Films Talent: A team effort with help from Ben Lee, Dave Stephenson, Steve Alexander & Katie Kemp Brief: A fast turnaround grade and online of a 4 x 60 minute series for Channel 5. Michael Buerk travels the length and breadth of Britain to find out How the Victorians Built Britain. Along the way he uncovers the incredible and surprising stories behind iconic landmarks, discovers the hidden heroes behind epic constructions and finds out how the incredible advances made by the Victorians forged the world we live in today.

Client: World Media Rights Talent: Grade and Online by Luke Dabbs & Jean-Paul Vial Brief: Complete the grade and online of a 6 x 60 minute series which uncovers the true stories upon which some of the most famous, Oscar®-nominated movies of recent years were based, including Goodfellas, Zero Dark Thirty and The Social Network.

The demo video below is of us using BTSync with Shared Storage and Avid Media Composer working across multiple locations including a laptop, FLiP (cloud based media composer) and our HQ.

I just wanted to share this tip for fixing drone footage that has heavy aliasing, it can actually be used for any Aliasing/Moire but we get a lot off the drone cameras. It’s something I have struggled with for a while and haven’t found an easy direct fix within avid, if you find one let me know! I tried replicating this process in Media Composer but it didn’t work so this is my best fix for now and does a pretty much perfect job with every shot I have put through so far.

Final Post: The Finish Line & Vaudeville Client: Optomen Television Talent: Grade and Online by David Grewal Brief: Grade and Online the four episode series based on two previous series.

Final Post: The Finish Line & Vaudeville Client: October Films Talent: Grade and Online by Zeb Chadfield Brief: Complete final post production for the five episode series in the same style as it’s predecessor Walking the Nile.