PRODUCTION SERVICES

Whether you need a cameraman for an interview, a full crew for a spectacular commercial, or feature film, we can arrange it for you. Having worked both home and abroad, even as far as South Africa, we can supply you with everything you need to bring your imagination to life, from camerakit to actors. We've worked with some of the best directors in the UK, which gives us a wide flexibility in both style and creativity. Have a look at the work page to see a sample of the type of work produced by 4x4.
Contact Katy Jackson for all your production queries.

EDIT SUITES

With the Quantel Editbox at 4x4 your creativity can become reality. Editbox combines the power of dedicated hardware with the flexibility of a non-linear multi-layered interface, allowing a variety of options for integration into a project. Each layer features true YUV colour correction and grading, a wide range of compositing methods, and frame by frame rotoscoping and touchup. It's fast deck control and clever auto-conforming menu make it a powerful tool for EDL based online work.

Our Avid Suite comprises a Media Composer Express 2D Meridien system offering anything from offline resolutions such as AVR4s and 15:1, up to Avid 1:1 uncompressed for Avid Online Conforming. The industry standard Avid interface and export allow your project to be taken seamlessly from Offline to Online and Dubbing.
Contact Jonathan Fetherston for any post production queries.

GRAPHICS SUITE

Our Graphics Suite comprises of a Apple Mac G5, with the highest quality Uncompressed 10 bit Digital Video and Audio in and out. The suite is Quicktime compatible, making it possible to transfer from tape to disk, or vice versa. With the ability to produce both 2d and 3d motion graphics, track shots, composite bluescreen/greenscreen, video touchup, scanning and frame grabs, the Suite is an affordable solution to all of your motion graphics design needs, whether it’s a programme design package (title sequence, credits, caption bars, etc.) or more complicated animation and compositing for a commercial. Go to our work page to check out our latest showreel.

With various widely recognisable software such as After Effects, Photoshop and Cinema 4D, they will be compatible with your own design studio. Graphics can be taken in most formats, but check out our guidelines to find out more details.
Contact Alan Perry for any graphics queries.

OTHER SERVICES

Broadcast Services - If you have produced content yourself and it needs to go to broadcast, we can take your digital formats and transfer them to a format that is broadcast safe. This includes checking audio and video levels, correct line-up with bars and tone and tx clocks, and either transfer to tape or encoding for Adstream delivery.

Web content - We can also supply you with transfers from digital formats (quicktime, still sequences) to tape transfer, transfer of tape to digital formats, Adstream delivery, or delivery web-based formats, such as Mpeg, Quicktime or Flash formats. If there's something you're not sure about please call and ask.