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The Company - Broadcast edit suites
With advances in the latest Hi Definition equipment and expert skills and workflow we deliver an ever improving benchmark for quality and customer service nationwide from our Exeter studios in the beautiful Southwest county of Devon. Over the years we have invested a substantial equipment base, enabling DVD and video production right through from scripting to replication and television delivery, all from our studios in Exeter, with lightweight bases in London, Birmingham and Bristol. Committed to delivering excellent video, DVD production and broadcasting producer Rick Cresswell displays a long track record for exceeding customer expectations. Producing London standard production at regional prices both in London and the Southwest. Sharon and Rick Cresswell fully own a wide range of full sized broadcast cameras and lighting kits and six online edit suites running Final Cut Pro, Avid and Premiere Pro. Their main suite said to be the fastest south of Bristol running with 8 core Xeon processors and 4tb + 4tb raid storage, this highly configured suite is capable of seamless online uncompressed HD post-production upto 2K for cinema production.
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The Southwest Video, DVD & TV production company
No 1 Southernhay West, Exeter, Devon EX1 1JG
01392 495778
General Information
Here is some general data about our video, DVD formats and facilities based in Exeter, Devon The Southwest, Westcountry (West country) and the rest of England. Location: While we are a video production company in Exeter (called The Company), we have video, filming, duplication, editing and full production facilities in Exeter, Bristol, Birmingham and London. Generally our business centres around Exeter in the Southwest (south west) of Devon, England, UK. Production facilities; DVD authoring, Blu-ray authoring, corporate video production, digital video production, video post production, video production services, location lighting services, film and video production, promotional video production, video production for presentation screens in business, historic / historical video production generic to Exeter, Cameraman, freelance cameraman, lighting cameraman, video cameraman, camera crews, television cameraman, OB cameramen, tv cameraman, high definition ( hd ) crewing, video production formats inc. DVD & CD media production, dv, dvcam, digital betacam, betacam sp, hddvd, hd dvd, blu-ray, blue ray, blueray, blu-ray, hdv, hdcam, hdcam-sr, dvcpro hd, hd editing, hd, hdv, filming, grading, color. colour, 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 480/60i (NTSC), 576/50i (PAL), 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 480/60i (NTSC), 576/50i (PAL), 480/60p, 576/50p, HDW-750P, DVCAM, DVD, DVD-R, DVD+R, CD, CD-R
Services Page Content
R&D, Storyboards & scripting
Crewing and live transmission
DVD & Blu-ray production
Television acquisition, production and delivery
SD, HD, SR, Prime Lenses, tracking, cranes etc...
Advert and programme 'digital stream' delivery
News packages for SAT. uplink
Hi Def (true uncompressed 1080) video production
HD or SD Editing, grading, encoding and mastering
Easy to use client FTP portal
Blu-Ray, DVD and CD replication & packaging
Plus usual: Design and internet services
Team Page Content
The Company, founded by Rick Cresswell pioneered digital animation and authoring for many video businesses in the Southwest in the early 90s using Lightwave, Cinema 4D, D-Paint and Scala on the very same computer platforms used in the films Jurrasic Park and Babylon 5.
After commissioned to set-up many studios with this then new wave of technology Rick spent much of his spare part-time lecturing on BA and MA courses in Devon universities, colleges and Art Centres and helping PhD students with their media/art degrees. Seventeen years on The Company’s passionate team comprises a highly gifted, established crew of specialists in the creative arts, media and broadcasting; providing services from scriptwriting, through to filming, animation, editing, DVD authoring and television.
Reputation page content
“Rick Cresswell is 100% reliable, delivering content to us for five years now, never missing a deadline; naturally we continue to use him each year for sports broadcasting ”.
Mark Tyler head of ITV Westcountry Sport
“Thanks for all your help with the Drakes Circus TV commercial:
Very impressive quality, and a proactive all encompassing service from brief through to broadcast. We have been most impressed and have enjoyed working with you”.
Stuart Devlin, Chalk & Ward Advertising
"Thanks for all your hard work I was really pleased with the result. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you to others: a highly professional service, and flexible too!"
Gideon Bradshaw, Producer - BBC Science
“For a few years now we have used The Company to support tenders for six figure contracts, the success we have had so far gives us no reason to stop!”
Guy Eatherington – Pluss (Supplier to NHS & Social Services)
“We were so lucky to find The Company, skills, crew infrastructure and facilities seem endless delivering on time and in budget: Now we're on QVC TV and in major bookstores internationally”
Rob Rickard’s - Easy-read (world distributor).
“Thank you for making production such a pleasure and I look forward to working with you again in the future”.
David Mills, (Producer for Everyman and Panorama).
“Thanks for helping at such short notice - great job!”
Norman Lockhart - Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Celador
“I received the edit the next day, I am absolutely delighted with how it looks, it has given me a number of ideas for further development. Well done!”
Tracey Riseborourgh - Granada Learning: GL Assessment
Deals page content
Low budget filming, editing, video and DVD production, reduced for 2009
We carefully price and resource a massive range of skills sets, work-flows and equipment to create a bespoke and unbeatable offers in video and DVD production. In either standard or high definition for promotion education or advertising. All usable for web, DVD, blu-ray, television or cinema.
We can upgrade you a variety of formats for DVD, Blu-ray or Television like HDV, Digi Beta or HDCAM or add a range of different location equipment like Steadcam, track and dolly, jibs and an extensive range of sound and lighting kit from Red heads, Kino-flow up to HMIs. In addition we can modify the above 'low budget' deals in to larger director/producer led projects.
Show-reel page content
“Thanks for all your help with the Drakes Circus TV commercial:
Very impressive quality, and a proactive all encompassing service from brief through to broadcast. We have been most impressed and have enjoyed working with you”.
Stuart Devlin, Chalk & Ward Advertising
“Rick Cresswell is 100% reliable, delivering content to us for five years now, never missing a deadline; naturally we continue to use him each year for sports broadcasting ”.
Mark Tyler head of ITV Westcountry Sport
"Thanks for all your hard work I was really pleased with the result. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you to others: a highly professional service, and flexible too!"
Gideon Bradshaw, Producer - BBC Science
“For a few years now we have used The Company to support tenders for six figure contracts, the success we have had so far gives us no reason to stop!”
Guy Eatherington – Pluss (Supplier to NHS)
“We were so lucky to find The Company, skills, crew infrastructure and facilities seem endless delivering on time and in budget: Now we're on QVC TV and in major bookstores internationally”
Rob Rickard’s - Easy-read (world distributor).
“Thank you for making production such a pleasure and I look forward to working with you again in the future”.
David Mills, (Producer for Everyman and Panorama).
“Thanks for helping at such short notice - great job!”
Norman Lockhart - Who Wants to be a Millionaire Celador
“I received the edit the next day, I am absolutely delighted with how it looks, it has given me a number of ideas for further development. Well done!”
Tracey Riseborourgh - Granada Learning: GL Assessment
Contact page content
The Company,
No. 1 Southernhay West,
Exeter,
The Southwest,
Devon EX1 1JG. UK.
Exeter: +44(0)1392 495778
London: +44(0)207 6177993
Mobile: +44(0)7976 870132
Email: info@theco.co.uk
Exeter Studio
Southernhay - Exeter City Centre
Office, studio and edit facilities.
Bristol Post-Production
Ashton
Office & edit facilities.
London Consultation
St. Martin's Le Grand
Office & meeting facilities.
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