Operations 'News & Views':

• Editing of the 30min Drama "Te Whare" (The House) for Ugly Films.
•     Shown on Maori TV and at 10 International Film Festivals.
•     Winner of three Awards including:.
•     In May 2009 the Film won a 'Special Commendation' for The University of
      Northampton's International Community Film Festival 2008 in the UK.
• Management and/or Operation of Surtitles for 'The White Body', 'Nosferatu', and 'Odyssey' Auckland Festivals.
• Operation of 'Southern Stars Promotions Ltd' Pantomimes "A Christmas Tale" & "Snow White" for Great Leap Forward Ltd.
• Company membership of Entertainment Technology NZ (www.etnz.org).
• Many new clients to complement existing ones - dozens of Events (see lists on other pages).
• Operation of cameras, video, graphics, to screen/s, to and from tape.
• Multiscreen presentations, picture-in-picture, video/graphics mixture.
• Packages, Lighting, Sound, AV, Mechanical, Stage Managers, Voiceovers.
• Photographs, Opera Surtitles, Graduations, Awards, Launches, TV Clips.
• Consultancy for AV, distribution systems, equipment specifications.
• SVP produced graphics, video, promotional DVDs and a touchscreen Kiosk DVD for the Mercury Bay Regional Museum Project.
• Graduations, Awards, Product Launches, Live camera mixes, DVD production, Surtitles.......
• Video, Graphics, 3D CAD Animation & Operation for Launch of Kaipara Mills Project

Video & Graphics 'Gear & Specs':

• New: Third AVID with HD DV & 16:9 options & Firewire i/o. Terabyte of Disk capacity.
• New: Toshiba Laptop with "Windows 7" and Webcam.
• New: Second Beta SP machine for backup and simultaneous playback/recording at Events.
• Two Philips HDD / DVD recorders.
• Brother Colour laser printer & Panasonic DVD/CD label printer.
• Second complete AVID system on G4 Mac with breakout interface. Direct importation of MP3.
• USB Mass backup storage now 1350gB.
• Pentax 8megapixel camera with SD card.
• Dual processor Mac with iMovie, iPhoto, Toast & Adobe CS Suite including:
•     PhotoShop, ImageReady, Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign, Acrobat.
•     Two Firewire, two USB Ports, and RADEON 9200 split Monitor outputs. DVD internal burner.
• Mac AVID Digital Editing system with Boris FX & Adobe After Effects.
• PhotoShop & ImageReady with many plug-ins, for those Special Graphics Effects.
• NT Workstation to produce PowerPoint & Scala (including InfoChannel) from many sources.
• DVD player (with Component output) / DVD-R / Mpeg 3 / CD and VHS/SVHS VCR.
• Colour printer for high quality photographs, DVD labels, & Video box sleeves.
• miniDV camcorder with SD memory for still shots & mjpg Web Movies, and Firewire & USB.
• USB & SD Flash Drives (1, 2 & 4gigB) available for transfer of data, photographs & movies.
• Eurorack 6 channel portable audio mixer with phantom power.
• Beta SP standard, most video formats available on request plus Quicktime.
• Transfer and backup - CD, CDR/CDRW,DVD, DVD-R, DVD+R, Zip, Jaz.
• Broadcast specification monitoring equipment.
• Media drives attached to the original & second AVID capacity now 420gigabytes.
• Conversion of DV (IEEE1394) signals to and from Avid component via Betacam SP 1800 machine.