The Wooden Post House
Exceptionally freeing working conditions, with the same sound and image critical conditions found in elite post houses. Whether it’s kneading performances, cutting corporate communications, rigging motion graphics, or onlining an AS-11 to EBU R103 / R128 broadcast standards, the days are always green and pleasant.
The suite has also hosted DIT and dailies base camp for shoots in film and TV’s go-to enchanted woodland: Ashridge is home to Harry Potter’s Womping Willow, and Disney Maleficent’s castle grounds.
Edit
AVID • Adobe Premiere + in-edit plug-ins galore
M2 Ultra Mac Studio • M1 Max MacBook Pro • 2019 MacBook Pro • 2021 iPad • Timeline monitor: electriQ curved ultra-widescreen • Playback monitor: LG's flagship 55" 4K OLED (55C9PLA, all 'colour enhancements' deactivated)
Audio
Pro Tools • Adobe Audition + over 20 plugins including iZotope RX 10
Genelec 8010 stereo active speakers on Vondynote clamp stands • Mackie studio monitor interface • Sony MDR-CD900ST headphones (with limiter) • Yamaha YSP-40D sound projector • Icon QCon Pro XS 9 fader control surface • Rode NTK for VO (valve condenser microphone) • Baffled walls and ceiling
Colour
DaVinci + over 20 plugins including Neat noise reduction
Flanders Scientific DM241 10-bit Rec. 709 calibrated monitor (Spyder 5 Elite) • Tangent Ripple control surface • 80% grey back walls • 'SwitchBot' blackout curtains
VFX
After Effects + an arsenal of over 30 plugins and scripts including Element 3D, Blace, Flicker Free and HandyCam • Cinema 4D
Cloud render farm through dropandrender (an average of 300,000 CUDA cores available on tap at any one time)
Data Wrangling
Double Data • DriveDx • Excel
Additional MacBooks • Reusable velcro / LED tracking markers
Infrastructure
WeTransfer Pro • Massive.IO
32TB 1GB/s read/write RAID 10 NAS • 1Gbps dual ISP internet • UPS protection (N+1, 8 hours off-grid) • IP tracked rushes, reviews and deliverables through ScreenLight - streamlining feedback
Workstation Welfare
Herman Miller chair • Kneeling chair • Sit/stand oak topped table • Waldmann Cradle to Cradle® certified LAVIGO floor lamp for true colour vision • Adjustable footrest • Vertical mouse • Dangerously comfortable client sofa • Fortnightly yoga • Annual optometrist check-up
Libraries
including Envato • Artlist • Soundly • Audio Network
Licences for hundreds of thousands of stock sound effects, music, composite motion graphic templates, and footage
Health and Safety
Risk assessments and controls are carried out in accordance with HSE guidelines for audio-visual production • Every piece of equipment is PAT tested yearly, and has an engineer maintenance log • Automated humidity and heating/cooling control
Insurances
PI • PL • C • Class 2B (for 2020 SUV) • Scheduled backups to air gapped drives - locked in an offsite, two hour fire resistant cabinet
Site
Forty minutes from London Euston • Gated, CCTV • Private footpaths around acres of farmland, forest, and countryside
Heritage
Half an hour from Pinewood, Elstree, and Leavesden Studios; and just fifteen minutes from the BFI National Archive. The borough was for most of the twentieth century, centre of operations for The Kodak Corporation. Our library of some 1000 books on filmmaking, TV, and creativity in general, is amassing from local second hand bookshops - many with local stories jotted in the margins
The Wooden Post House
Exceptionally freeing working conditions, with the same sound and image critical conditions found in elite post houses. Whether it’s kneading performances, cutting corporate communications, rigging motion graphics, or onlining an AS-11 to EBU R103 / R128 broadcast standards, the days are always green and pleasant.
The suite has also hosted DIT and dailies base camp for shoots in film and TV’s go-to enchanted woodland: Ashridge is home to Harry Potter’s Womping Willow, and Disney Maleficent’s castle grounds.
Edit
AVID • Adobe Premiere + in-edit plug-ins galore
M2 Ultra Mac Studio • M1 Max MacBook Pro • 2019 MacBook Pro • 2021 iPad • Timeline monitor: electriQ curved ultra-widescreen • Playback monitor: LG's flagship 55" 4K OLED (55C9PLA, all 'colour enhancements' deactivated)
Audio
Pro Tools • Adobe Audition + over 20 plugins including iZotope RX 10
Genelec 8010 stereo active speakers on Vondynote clamp stands • Mackie studio monitor interface • Sony MDR-CD900ST headphones (with limiter) • Yamaha YSP-40D sound projector • Icon QCon Pro XS 9 fader control surface • Rode NTK for VO (valve condenser microphone) • Baffled walls and ceiling
Colour
DaVinci + over 20 plugins including Neat noise reduction
Flanders Scientific DM241 10-bit Rec. 709 calibrated monitor (Spyder 5 Elite) • Tangent Ripple control surface • 80% grey back walls • 'SwitchBot' blackout curtains
VFX
After Effects + an arsenal of over 30 plugins and scripts including Element 3D, Blace, Flicker Free and HandyCam • Cinema 4D
Cloud render farm through dropandrender (an average of 300,000 CUDA cores available on tap at any one time)
Data Wrangling
Double Data • DriveDx • Excel
Additional MacBooks • Reusable velcro / LED tracking markers
Infrastructure
WeTransfer Pro • Massive.IO
32TB 1GB/s read/write RAID 10 NAS • 1Gbps dual ISP internet • UPS protection (N+1, 8 hours off-grid) • IP tracked rushes, reviews and deliverables through ScreenLight - streamlining feedback
Workstation Welfare
Herman Miller chair • Kneeling chair • Sit/stand oak topped table • Waldmann Cradle to Cradle® certified LAVIGO floor lamp for true colour vision • Adjustable footrest • Vertical mouse • Dangerously comfortable client sofa • Fortnightly yoga • Annual optometrist check-up
Libraries
including Envato • Artlist • Soundly • Audio Network
Licences for hundreds of thousands of stock sound effects, music, composite motion graphic templates, and footage
Health and Safety
Risk assessments and controls are carried out in accordance with HSE guidelines for audio-visual production • Every piece of equipment is PAT tested yearly, and has an engineer maintenance log • Automated humidity and heating/cooling control
Insurances
PI • PL • C • Class 2B (for 2020 SUV) • Scheduled backups to air gapped drives - locked in an offsite, two hour fire resistant cabinet
Site
Forty minutes from London Euston • Gated, CCTV • Private footpaths around acres of farmland, forest, and countryside
Heritage
Half an hour from Pinewood, Elstree, and Leavesden Studios; and just fifteen minutes from the BFI National Archive. The borough was for most of the twentieth century, centre of operations for The Kodak Corporation. Our library of some 1000 books on filmmaking, TV, and creativity in general, is amassing from local second hand bookshops - many with local stories jotted in the margins
Escaping since 2013
woodenposthouse@gmail.com
© 2024 The Forest TV Productions Ltd. Hertfordshire, England.
The POST logo is trademarked by The Forest TV Productions ltd.
Escaping since 2013
woodenposthouse@gmail.com
© 2024 The Forest TV Productions Ltd.
Hertfordshire, England.
The POST logo is trademarked by
The Forest TV Productions ltd.
