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Fifteen Not Out At TVP
L ow-volume, high quality and quick turn-round video dupli- cation. That was the origi- nal brief when the TVP Group was first founded in 1983 by the two young joint managing directors Simon Kay and
Nick Pannaman.
Now the group operates from three sites in Soho with a staff of more than 90 and its reputation is spreading across not just the UK and Europe but also the US and Australia.
Recent projects include editing and tape grading of Escape for Windfall Productions and the BBC, Provos - The Story Of The IRA, also for the BBC, and multiple copies of Kipper and Percy The Park Keeper for Hit Entertainment Plc.
There’s been fur- therworktoofor Apple Productions on the valuable and unique Beatles archive which, over the past four years, TVP has been restoring, transferring from aged film and
mastering for international distribution.
With all else, TVP facilities are also taking in live, line feed recordings, as well as on-line editing, telecine grading and image restoration with noise, dirt and grain reduction, plus audio lay back and multiple dubbing - including Alchemist standards conversion - TVP plans to develop with its clients
well on into the next millennium or beyond! ■ Photos: TVP’s new Digital Transfer Area in the
Golden Square site at work on the series The Beatles Anthology and below: from the Sky pay-per-view Music for Montserrat concert title sequence.
Now, almost 15 years on and after continuous expansion, London’s leading independent video facility encompasses all facets of the component and digital revolution in the post-production industry, with DVD and MPEG
compression rapidly becoming new elements. From its inception, TVP’s philosophy has been to ensure that all contact with, and require- ments of, its clients were handled efficiently and
promptly - so, arguably, becoming the first truly service-based video facilities company. From quite small and humble begin- nings in shared offices with a staff of four, TVP’s evolution has been a mixture of organ- ic growth built on successful and continually developing client relationships as well as carefully planned acquisitions of competing companies - Reel Time Video Company (in 1986) and Double
Vision Video Duplication (1990).
In 1995 TVP opened Post Box Golden Square
Ltd in Lower St. James Street and with it came the completion of another scheme - to offer clients a state-of-the-art editing service with experienced editors in a new, purpose-built environment.
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