Finale launches Nitris suite

HD is also the order of business over at Vancouver’s Finale Editworks. The shop recently launched its Avid DS Nitris editing suite to accommodate a growing number of producers who want to originate on the Sony 24P HD CineAlta system or Panasonic’s 720P, for both HD and standard-definition delivery.

‘The Avid DS Nitris fits this bill with powerful editing, color correction and compositing tools that are also linked to our Avid Symphony online finishing suite, Pro Tools mix suite, and Media Composer and Final Cut Pro edit rooms,’ says Finale president Don Thompson.

Recent indie projects shot in HD that have come Finale’s way include Spare Change for Rambler Productions and the 22-minute Unrecoverable Error for Titan Pictures. The shop has also posted Bardel Entertainment’s animated The Christmas Orange, a recent Gemini nominee, and the docs Guinea Pig Club, which reaped five Leo Awards for Infinity Films, and The Boys of Buchenwald, which won five awards at Yorkton for Paperny Films.

-www.finale.tv

Mag North gets diverse

Toronto’s Magnetic North has had a slate of diverse projects under its roof. It has recently provided video transfer and finishing for Strange Days at Blake Holsey High, airing on Global and NBC, and Zoe Busiek: Wild Card, which airs on Lifetime Television and debuts on Global Nov. 26. The shop is also doing dailies transfers on The Eleventh Hour for Alliance Atlantis and CTV.

Mag North also completed video post on a couple of projects for Rhombus Media – the historical drama Elizabeth Rex, which aired on CBC, and Guy Maddin’s feature The Saddest Music in the World, which played to sold-out houses and glowing reviews at TIFF.

Back in the summer, the post house provided dailies for seven U.S. MOWs, for the likes of Fox FX, Lifetime and the Disney Channel. It also provided full video and audio post on the Columbia Pictures/Lifetime MOW Sex & the Single Mom, directed by Don McBrearty. More recently, Mag North has been handling post on the Sienna Films feature That Touch of Pink, with Kyle MacLachlan and Jimi Mistry, and the Miracle Pictures/Frantic Films/CTV MOW Zeyda and the Hitman, a dark comedy starring Judd Hirsch and Danny Aiello.

-www.magpost.com