Magicbrush Studios Limited occupies an estimate of 500 square metres of real estate within the bustling city of Port Harcourt. Our facility includes but is not limited to administrative offices, production and post-production facilities, equipment storage among others.
The studios’ facilities include:
VIDEO POST-PRODUCTION STUDIO
This is made up of 3 units of edit facilities with a combined storage of over 20TB working space. A unit runs on the IOS Snow Leopard platform and has as its editing base primarily Final Cut Pro Studio 7, and an additional Adobe Production Collection CS5. Other post-production units include, a windows 7 professional series based Quad Core i7 unit, with Adobe Master Collection CS6 package as its editing platform, while the remaining also based on the windows 7 professional series has Adobe Master Collection CS5 as its main base.
The combined edit capability of these units cuts across various production formats ranging from Standard DV through to Red R3D 4.5k compression formats.
High end installed graphic cards of the Nvidia Quadro series grants together with high end calibrated professional monitors grants us the ability to grade any picture. Other components in use with these units cut across the AJA series, Blackmagic cards among others. All these grant our studios the ability to meet up to any client’s demand in any format and on time.
AUDIO PRODUCTION STUDIOS
The Audio Production Studio is based on a windows 7 platform with an installed Maudio audio card. The studio also has a 5-octave BeHringer midi input keyboard and other BeHringer components such as audio mixer, monitor speakers among others. Although fully digital, there are facilities put in place to enable analog-based productions.
Productions can be carried out in-house from start to finish, with an added ability to master and mix down the final job. Our multi-tracker also affords us the ability to carry out foley functions for movies and home videos.
GRAPHIC STUDIOS
Our graphic studios revolve around Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Dreamweaver for all web related designs. We have an installed in-house capability of producing magazines either web-based or hard copies of any size and quality. Other functions we execute include e-book production and publishing, photobook production, out of home advertising designs, corporate branding among several others.
PHOTO STUDIOS
To enhance our capability to deliver quality productions to our clients, we have installed in-house a photo studio that complements our other services especially in the area of out of home advertising, digital and analog publishing, photobooks and corporate branding.
The photo studio is based on an 18 megapixel Canon Professional Photo camera, with differing Canon EF prime lenses.
OTHER FACILITIES
Other facilities include different professional series video acquisition cameras, photo cameras, field audio recorders among several others.
For aerial and high-level shots, the studio has a 30 foot, 9.6 metres crane/jib to enable the acquisition of high levels shots. This is usually used for musical videos, sports coverage’s and other activities where a high crowd presence is anticipated.
For smooth and shake-free video shots, we also have a glidecam in place to enable the shooting of high-quality shake-free video footages.
CAMERAS
» RED Scarlet 5k Camera
» Sony NEX-FS700RH Super35 Camcorder with 18-200mm f/3.5 – 6.3 PZ
OSS lens.
» Sony Alpha 7Sii Camera
» Panasonic P2 HDPro AG-HPX371E Camera plus accessories.
» Canon EOS 7D Camera
» Sony Z1 HDV Camera CAMERA LENSES
» A set of Rokinon 16, 35, 50, 85mm T 1.5 Cine DS Lens
» Voigtlander 90mm f/3.5 APO – Lanthar
» Canon EF-S 10 – 22mm f/3.5 – 4.5 USM Lens CAMERA STABILIZER AND SUPPORT
» Glidecam HD 2000 Stabilizer System
» DJI Ronin 3 Gimbal Camera Stabilizer
» Zhiyun Crane V2 Stabilizer
» Vinten Pro 5 Professional Camera Tripod LIGHTING EQUIPMENT
» Aputure C300D COB Led Lights with Fresnel Mount
» Intellitech Cannon LED Fresnel Lights
» Redhead 800 watts Lights (5 in number)
» Cosmo Porta Light 650 Watts (3 in number)
» Kinoflo 6 bank light fitting (2 in number)
» Flolight Microbeam 1024 Daylight LED Lights (2 in number)
» Sungun Lights (5 in number)
» Aputure Dome Softbox and Aputure Dome mini Softbox
SOUND RECORDING EQUIPMENT
» Sennheiser EW 100 G3 Evolution Wireless Lavalier Microphones (4 in number)
» Audio-Technica AT897 Boom Microphone
» Fishpole plus Anti-Shock Mount
» Zoom H6 Handy Field Recorder with interchangeable microphone system
AERIAL AND HIGH LEVEL SHOTS
» SECCED SuperJib 9.6 metre (30 feet)
» DJI Phantom 3 Professional Drone
» DJI Marvic Pro Drone
» FIELD VIDEO RECORDER AND MIXER
» Convergent Design Odyssey 7Q Monitor and 4K Recorde
MOBILE EDITING STUDIO
» Acer Predator Helios 300. Core i7 7th Generation processor, 16GB Ram, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 Video Card, 256 M.2 internal Drive and 2 TB Hybrid SSD Drive. Sporting Adobe Creative Cloud CC2019.
» Acer VX 15 Edit Syste. 7th Generation Core i7 processor, Nvidia Geforce GTX1050, 16 GB DDR, 256GB DDR plus 512 SSD External Drive. Sporting Adobe Creative Cloud CC2017
» Apple Macbook Pro 15.4, i7 Quadcore 2 Gigahertz, 8 GB, 500GB HDD with Final Cut Pro 7 Studio installed and Adobe Premiere CC 2017 Video editing programmes.
» Lenovo G50-30 15.6” Intel 500GB HDD with Windows 8.1 and Adobe Premiere CC 2017 installed.
TELEPROMPTER
» ProPrompter PP-HD-I 10inch Screen Teleprompter
» ProPrompter software
STUDIO EQUIPMENT
» 2 Units of Core i7, 7th Generation Processors Non-Linear Edit System, 32GB RAM, 4TB HDD, Internal Blu-ray Writer, running Microsoft Windows 10 64bit Professional.
» Professional level Nvidia EVGA Graphic Card
» 2 24 inch LCD Monitors sporting DVI and HDMI inputs
» Adobe CC Production Premium (includes Adobe Premiere CC 2017, Aftereffects among others).
» Over 20 TB external storage for data backup.
AUDIO PRODUCTION STUDIO
» Quadcore Direct to Disk Recording with Roland Quad Capture audio breakout box
» Berhringer XENYX 1204 Audio Mixer
» Professional Studio Microphone for Voice over recordings
» Soundproofed Audio Recording Booth for clean audio sounds
» A pair of high-resolution Studio Audio Monitors (Rokit 6)
» Voice processor with in-built Compressor, Gate and Emulator
» Midi Controller Keyboard and Software-based sequencers.
DISTRIBUTION
We have a combined total capacity of: Mastering final edit into high-resolution H.264 mp4, Quicktime, FLV or any other video format for Web-based distribution Mastering final edit into 4K, UHD, High Definition XDCAM EX3, P2 Format, DVC Pro, or any other format for International Television Station Broadcasts and distributed in HD-DVD format, Blu-ray or DataDVD media or tapes.
Mastering of final edit into High-resolution DVD video format for office consumption and storage.
Uploading the materials so produced up to Client’s FTP site among several others. An installed VSAT connection to ensure 24 hours’ connectivity to the internet. This ensures that turnaround time for any production is greatly reduced since the productions can be delivered on-line for immediate assessment by the client and immediate feedback rendered.