& FINISHING
Editorial, conform, colour and delivery. A complete finishing house inside a production studio.
We run a complete finishing house inside a production studio, handling everything from editorial and conform through to colour, sound, mastering and delivery, for features, series, commercials and immersive work. It makes no difference whether the project was built with us or arrives from somewhere else, because it gets the same suites and the same standard either way. One grade, every destination, and no drift between them.
how the work gets made
The grade is the last chance a film gets to say what it means, and it deserves more attention than it usually receives. We built our finishing house so the end of a project is where the work becomes itself rather than where it quietly gets tidied up, and we take on work arriving from other studios just as readily as work that comes off our own floor.
Colour sits at the centre of it. We grade in an ACES-managed pipeline from the first look through to the final master, so the intent set in the grading theatre survives every destination the film is sent to rather than being re-approximated for each one separately. A cinema master, a broadcast version and a social cut should all feel like the same film, and with a single source of truth behind them they do.
Because finishing sits beside visual effects and animation rather than downstream of an outside vendor, the notes that normally bounce between facilities for a week get resolved in the same building, whether a shot needs a fix, a plate needs cleaning or an element needs rebuilding entirely. That closeness is what allows a campaign running to a hundred deliverables, or a full series slate, to finish properly without any one master being weakened in order to get everything out the door.
what we believe
A GRADE IS AN ARGUMENT ABOUT WHAT THE FILM MEANS.
THE MASTER IS THE ONLY VERSION ANYONE WILL EVER SEE.
CONSISTENCY ACROSS A HUNDRED DELIVERABLES IS A CRAFT, NOT AN EXPORT SETTING.
WE FINISH WHAT WE START, AND WHAT OTHERS START.
how we work
EDITORIAL, OFFLINE AND CONFORM
ONLINE, CLEANUP AND FINISHING
ACES COLOUR GRADING AND LOOK MANAGEMENT
MASTERING, QC AND MULTI-PLATFORM DELIVERY
who this is for
Post-production is for the work that has to arrive finished, not nearly finished.
- Producers and studios who need a finishing partner for a feature, series or campaign, whether or not the work was made with us.
- Directors and storytellers who want a colourist and a grading theatre rather than a render preset.
- Brands and agencies shipping across dozens of formats, regions and platforms that all have to look like the same film.
- Post supervisors and creatives in Sydney, Melbourne and internationally who need ACES-native delivery with QC documentation that passes first time.
the outcome
What every project in this discipline delivers.
- 4K DCI and HDR cinema masters
- ACES colour space deliverables
- Broadcast, streaming and social versions
- Full QC documentation and archive