Despite this rather unflattering self proclamation, we hope you’ll join us in welcoming Peter Hammond to the hire desk.
With the recession still hanging around and many companies cutting back, we seem to be getting busier and busier, which is of course great news and to ensure we continue to exceed our client expectations we’re not just investing in equipment, but the people behind it - as the driving force behind our business, their relentless passion and commitment to the job make us who we are.
As an experienced co-ordinator Peter comes to us with many years previous hire desk experience for a major events company and has already started to make his mark. When he’s not admiring architecture or studying its history in places such as Rome, Prague and Portigal you’ll probably find him snowboarding on the ski slopes, playing a spot of cricket or gearing up for the motor racing on the box.
All in all, a great new member of the team. Welcome Pete!
Wedlake Joins Hyperactive, Restructure includes new MD & Operations Director, £2m+ investment in 2009.
Broadcast Rental Company Hyperactive Broadcast Ltd has recruited Roger Wedlake as Technical Director with effect from 10th November. Roger joins Hyperactive after 19 years with hire company Finepoint Broadcast, where he was Chief Engineer.
Wedlake’s appointment is part of a major re-structure and investment programme at Hyperactive. Long-term Hyperactive managers James Gander and Richard Salter take up new positions, James becoming Managing Director and Richard Operations Director. Owners Bob Griffiths & Mike Jopp still plan to play an active role in the business.
2009 is going to be an interesting year, and we believe that it’s an excellent time for the expansion of our rental business, as capital purchase budgets shrink” says Griffiths. “Our Avid and ProTools department continues to grow, and with Roger Wedlake joining us we intend to invest strongly in Broadcast Equipment in 2009, indeed, we anticipate a spend well in excess of £2million”.
Hyperactive provided equipment and technical support at the Olympics in Beijing for several major Broadcasters including the BBC, and is the largest UK supplier of Avid systems to the Film and Television Industry.
HyperActive Wins the Olympics.
well, not literally. We did however provide an enormous amount of Avid equipment for use by six International Broadcasters, including the BBC. We sent our technicians to Beijing to rig and support everything. The BBC system was massive, based around Avid's ISIS, with 18 Adrenalines and 60 Terabytes of storage. Everything worked beautifully, and the clients were delighted with our installation and support.
Adrenaline is just not enough! Now we are going Nitris too.
The amazing success of Adrenaline is about to move up a level with the introduction of Avid's Nitris DX Media Composer. Integrating the Media Composer toolset with the new Avid Nitris hardware, Nitris DX is a remarkably responsive, high performance, multi-codec SD and HD editing solution.
We're listening to our clients - and investing in the process!
At Hyperactive we always do our best to supply equipment that the industry needs and wants. Following the Launch of Avid's brand new Nitris DX Media Composer we've taken delivery of 12 of them already!. Together with broadcast equipment for the Olympics this has brought our investment total in state of the art equipment recently to almost £1,000,000.
Director Mike Jopp, when talking about the choice of Avid said; We didn't look closley at any competitive products because, for the majority of our clients, there aren't any serious competitors - people ask for Avid so that's what we supply.
And that's what it's all about. If the industry wants it, we're there to make sure it's available.
HD growth brings new Sony camera channels.
Due to the increasing demand for High-Definition content, we have just invested £400,000 in Sony HD Camera Channels.
We chose the Sony HDC-1500, which is the market leader in top-end Hi-Def Cameras, as we'd noticed an increasing demand for them amongst our clients, both for Studio and Outside Broadcast applications.
Sony offer a huge list of options for this camera, and we decided to carry a full range of viewfinders including the new 9" colour LCD. Some clients like to use the HDLA-1500 Camera Frames that take a long lens and 7" CRT viewfinder, and this combination is particularly popular for Sports coverage.
Want to find out more about the range? Just call...
Olympic Demand makes us the heavy hitters of the games!
Move aside Geoff Capes! The world's strongest man award of the Olympics must surely go to the baggage handlers who took care of our equipment en route to the Olympics in Beijing. The Avid equipment shipped for the BBC alone weighed in at over 5,000Kgs!
As well as the massive ISIS-based system with 18 Adrenalines we supplied and installed in Beijing for the BBC, we also provided equipment and support for another five International Broadcast Companies. The volume of kit sent to China was staggering. Sadly there aren't any medals for broadcast equipment.
Nitris DX Media Composers
We have recently installed 2 Nitris DX systems at Bentley Productions for use on Midsomer Murders. Needless to say they are delighted with them. They are being used on the Mac platform, and already the client is impressed with the stability of the system.
The other DX systems we bought are in use all over the place, including Manchester and Ireland, although the secrecy act forbids me to tell on what and with whom!
Avid in Outside Broadcast
During 2008 we supplied and supported the Avids and EVS systems for Crufts which enhanced our reputation as specialists in the integration of Avid & EVS technology. We provided the same package for the Radio 1 Big Weekend and the Hay Festival, and more recently Glastonbury and The Electric Proms.
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