New Chambers
Unit 9B/C Hucclecote Road
Gloucester
GL3 3TQ

Our spacious studio (1,400 sq ft in total) houses our post-production suites.

Based around Apple Macintosh computers, our suites are equiped with a full compliment of industry
standard standard software including Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, Photoshop, Motion etc....

We also have in-house archive VTRs for the following formats:-
Broadcast formats:- DVCAM, U-matic ( low band, high band & U-maticSP) Betacam & BetacamSP.
Consumer formats:- MiniDV, Hi8, 8mm, VHS, VHSc & Betamax.

Specialists in audio and video conversion
Be it converting VHS and BetaCam to DVD, .MOV, AVI or MPEG files - whatever the file
format - video to MPEG, AVI, MOV, WMV, DivX; or audio to MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG,
RM, AAC, AVI, MPEG (the list is seemingly endless)- we have the facilities, equipment,
expertise and know-how to convert to and from most audio and video formats.

We also specialise in the compression and decompression (for web and 3G delivery) of all
manner of video and audio formats. We also offer a variety of video and audio pre and post-
processing filters, including (but not limited to):

• video de-interlacing
• audio resampling
• framerate conversion
• smoothing
• cutting

We have been commissioned by a variety of insurance, legal and health and safety executives to
lift and transcode CCTV time-lapse footage from DVD & VHS tapes to a variety of formats, for use
as evidence in legal cases such as personal injury compensation claims.

Our audio & video enhancement and transcribing services are also regularly employed by
Gloucestershire Police Authority.

We could go on… but this is just an indication of the type of digital wizardry we can perform.

If you have any other requirements or ideas, please do not hesitate to email us or give us a call.

Did You Know...

Film editing evolved from the process of a film editor physically cutting and taping together pieces of film, using a splicer and threading the film on a machine with a viewer such as a Moviola, or “flatbed” machine such as a Kem or Steenbeck.

The first known American filmmaker to put film editing to use was Edwin S. Porter who, after a variety of odd jobs - including electrician in the US Navy - entered motion picture work in 1896; the first year movies were commercially projected on large screens in the United States.

In 1899, Porter joined the Edison Manufacturing Company and soon after took charge of motion picture production at Edison's New York studios, operating the camera, directing the actors and assembling the final print. During the next decade he became the most influential filmmaker in the United States.

Early Edison films were short films that were typically shot in one long static locked down shot. When Edison's motion picture studio wanted to increase the length of the short films he came to Porter. Porter made the breakthrough film Life of an American Fireman in 1902. The film was among the first to have a plot, action and even a close-up of a hand pulling a fire alarm. Instead of using abrupt splices or cuts between shots, Porter created dissolves (gradual transitions from one image to another) - a technique which helped audiences follow complex outdoor movement.

Other films were to follow. Porter's ground-breaking film, The Great Train Robbery, is still shown in film schools today as an example of early editing form. It was produced in 1903 and was one of the first examples of dynamic, action editing (the piecing together of scenes shot at different times and places). Being one of the first film hyphenates (film director, editor and engineer) Porter also invented and utilised some of the very first (albeit primitive) special effects, such as double exposures, miniatures and split-screens.

The one-reel film, with a running time of 12 minutes, was assembled in 20 separate shots, along with a startling close-up of a bandit firing at the camera (pictured below). It used as many as 10 different indoor and outdoor locations and was groundbreaking in its use of “cross-cutting” in editing to show simultaneous action in different places. No earlier film had created such swift movement or variety of scene. The Great Train Robbery was enormously popular. For several years it toured throughout the United States, and in 1905 it was the premier attraction at the first nickelodeon. Its success firmly established motion pictures as commercial entertainment in the United States.

What do we do?
We are primarily a video production company but we do much more, see the list below.....
"We script, shoot, edit, dub, encode & duplicate a variety of films. corporate DVDs, training videos, event films,
product launches, looping exhibition DVDs, seminar materials etc: We believe we are Gloucestershires leading
CD, DVD & VHS tape duplicating facility also specialising in new technology such as 3G encoding, web
based video production, streaming & distribution.

What areas do we cover?
Our local area is Gloucestershire including Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud, Tetbury, Cirencester & Tewkesbury
but our film and video production coverage goes way beyond Gloucestershire to the whole of the UK.

Our daily location video production charge incudes enough mileage to cover not only Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud,
Cirencester, Tetbury, Stonehouse, Tewkesbury, generally the whole of Gloucestershire, but South Gloucestershire,
Bristol, Oxfordshire, West Midlands, Birmingham, Cardiff, Swindon, Bath etc. If the video production requires
that we travel further afield, the extra costs are minimal and will be detailed in the production qoute.

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