Brace Media | Full Range Media Solutions | CD DVD USB Duplication & Replication | Video & Film Production Facilities | Post Production Services Birmingham | Animation Enriching People's Lives via the Internet 2011-09-19T21:12:38Z http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/feed/atom/ WordPress admin <![CDATA[Delcam – 3D Animation]]> http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/?p=812 2011-09-19T21:12:38Z 2011-04-07T21:00:32Z Delcam is a huge global CADCAM software company. Their tools are used by single people through to large companies around the world who need to design products and then machine them.

Our close friends at Verdant Vision were working with them them anyway, and when they wanted to have an animation produced to show in an exciting manner a selection of the areas their tools are used in, they came to us.

The project was pretty large, with a lot of 3D modelling and handling of very detailed CAD models. With a team of up to 10 people at its peak covering various roles from 3D to audio post, we got the aniamtion delivered in time for the large engineering show in Hamburg.

Apparently it even got a bit of a standing ovation for them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCL8oJkw3LQ

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admin <![CDATA[The Twang – CD Replication]]> http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/?p=808 2011-09-19T20:59:55Z 2011-02-01T20:54:35Z The Twang are a Birmingham band, who are doing very well for themselves by being covered by NME and reaching high numbers in the independent charts.

They were releasing a new EP, and wanted to use a local company to produce their CDs for them.  So they turned to Brace Media for their CD replication needs.

We got them 1,000 CDs printed and replicated, packed into printed card wallets, and shrinkwrapped, all in a timely fashion to meet their deadline they imposed.  They proveded some pretty cool artwork, which looked great on the discs!

We wish these nice guys continued success with their music.

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admin <![CDATA[Cure Leukemia – DVD Authoring & Duplication]]> http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/?p=797 2011-09-19T20:15:06Z 2011-01-20T19:44:55Z Our good friends over at Verdant Vision were working to produce a video DVD for the Cure Leukemia charity.

Once the filming and their editing was done, they needed a nice clean simple menu designed to be in keeping with the charity’s look, along with the DVD authoring of the disc.

Once that was done and approved, we had to do a run of DVD duplication and print of 250 discs in clamshells pretty quickly in order to be ready for an event.

We didn’t let them down!

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admin <![CDATA[The Gadget Show – 5.1 Encoding]]> http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/?p=790 2011-09-19T19:43:48Z 2011-01-12T19:37:20Z We had an interesting little project come in recently, where the Gadget Show was putting together one of their show’s piece on 5.1 surround sound from DVD.  To do this they filmed a sports car doing donuts and other rubber-burning antics around the camera.

The audio recording from this was then also mixed up at the 5.1 specialists in Digbeth, The Audio Suite.

We then received the audio for each channel and encoded it to Dolby Digital 5.1 and encoded the video sequence together to DVD.  This DVD was then used in the Gadget Show programme as part of their discussion and review of 5.1 audio.  Or something like that.

It was a pretty cool quick job to turn around, but received no less that our utmost attention.  We were pleased to hear it was well used!

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admin <![CDATA[IET Connect interviews – Corporate Video]]> http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/?p=784 2011-09-19T19:36:49Z 2011-01-10T19:33:16Z Switch Design, the branding and design agency were working with the Institution of Engineering and Technology to create a new website for their benevolent fund for a stylish redesign.

Their client, the IET wanted to have real-life testimonials on this new site, and wanted this in the form of video interviews that matched the look and feel of the new design.

We helped Switch with their filming requirements, and edited the four testimonials together along with some very demanding green-screen chromakeying work.  After a couple of weeks all was done and the videos were embedded into the IET Connect website after a successful post-production period.

The videos can be viewed here: http://www.ietconnect.org/

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admin <![CDATA[Thomas Vale – Corporate Video]]> http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/?p=755 2011-09-19T19:17:20Z 2011-01-05T17:42:27Z Thomas Vale, the large construction company, were looking to have a corporate video done in Birmingham.  They hooked up with one of our partners, Infinite Wisdom, who took responsibility for filming for their video on this project.

What they were after was a piece looking back on their year’s success, to show to their staff at their Christmas meal!

After Infinite had done the filming, we took the footage and turned it into a full blown video with much more visual excitement than many corporate projects out there.

The video was extremely well received by the [possibly slightly alcohol-fueled] staff on the night, and set the targets for the coming year for them!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QqyxXA--A

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admin <![CDATA[Stratstone – TV Commercial]]> http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/?p=742 2011-09-19T20:17:03Z 2010-12-26T17:10:44Z Stratstone, the chain of car dealers, had an idea that they wanted to get a new TV commercial out there on the Goggle Box.  They went along to the advertising agency, Golley Slater to realise this dream.

Golley Slater teamed up with their trusted production house, the lovely chaps at Sound and Picture House, who were excited to be working on this project.  After some refining, the guys at SPH gave us a call to give them a bit of assistance with the 3D text to be featured.

This was not a simple task to create, as the commercial was shot in a white studio, with very little in the way of markers (or marks) to for us to track.  Nevertheless, we managed to pull tracking info from the scenes so we could synchronise our virtual cameras with the motions of the real camera from the shoot -- this meaning the positions and angles of the text matched the real thing!

Once done, we handed our shiny renders of 3D text back to SPH to piece it together with the footage.

Although done in the first half of 2010, the advert came on air nationally on ITV1 on Boxing Day -- much to our joy…!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhtkUYTzKzA

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admin <![CDATA[Stratstone – 3D for Billboard]]> http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/?p=748 2011-04-20T18:58:21Z 2010-12-10T18:49:53Z Having worked on the 3D for the Stratstone’s TV commercial earlier in the year, aired on ITV1 nationally from Boxing Day 2010, the guys at the advertising agency, Golley Slater, needed a high resolution image of the 3D text.

The Stratstone.com address needed to be supplied, rendered at a specific angle and rendered out so large it would fit a bill board in the street! (This is actually harder than it sounds…)

We got it delivered to them electronically, so they could then monkey around with other elements and images to put together with the text.

We like a bit of teamwork…!

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admin <![CDATA[West Midlands European Network – CD-ROM]]> http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/?p=737 2011-04-18T17:05:59Z 2010-12-07T16:52:19Z The West Midlands European Network is a funded body which helps various groups of people.

They were having presentation, at which they wanted to be able to give out CDs to attendees.  They had a presentation file thy’d already created, but wanted this to be duplicated on to CDs, and printed, for 9am the next day.

Always one for a challenge, we got the job done on time and as we’d used gorgeous glossy Watershield CDs, they client was over the moon!

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admin <![CDATA[Ducati Glasgow DVD]]> http://www.wearebrace.co.uk/?p=724 2011-04-18T16:14:54Z 2010-12-07T16:08:34Z Ducati’s UK agency, The Gyst, came back to us to give a small tweak to the DVD we’d already authored for the International Bike Show.

A Ducati dealer in Glasgow was in need of a bespoke version of the earlier tradeshow DVD, one with a merry Christmas message as well. So upon receiving updating files from the nice Gysty chaps, we got this done and delivered super quick.   That’s what we’re here for!

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