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a revolution in post-production

 

Hidden within a gothic chapel in Central London, Priory Post is the world’s best-reviewed colour grading and VFX studio.

We offer senior freelance DaVinci Resolve colorist Gabriel Xavier, alongside his exclusive team of advanced VFX artists — available for attended sessions in our luxury, custom-built grading suite, or remotely worldwide. Trusted by the biggest brands, agencies and record labels, our distinctive blend of creative vision, technical excellence, fast turnarounds, and absolute reliability rivals any Soho post-house.

And yet, as a true boutique, our personal approach offers the economy and flexibility of a freelancer. With remote colour grading from £50/hour, attended sessions from £75/hour, and VFX from £150/shot, we uniquely deliver both affordability and world-class excellence on TVCs, brand content, music videos, feature films and more.

 
 

in our fully calibrated, multi-monitor suite — purpose-built for attended grading — filmmakers can focus and create, while clients and agencies relax in quiet luxury

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Within a secluded private mews, we offer London’s most comfortable boutique post facility — a beautiful bespoke space that moves seamlessly from natural light to full blackout. With 1GB/s dedicated fibre, air conditioning, great coffee, snacks, secure off-street parking and original artwork by David Shrigley, every detail is designed for comfort and focus.

Our broadcast-standard set-up delivers power and precision — with multi-GPU Mac Pro, 10-bit Sony reference monitors, custom-machined Resolve panel, thousands of LUTs, hundreds of grain scans, and industry-leading 35mm film emulation.

Unlike conventional facilities, our client area offers more than just a TV, with its own high-spec OLED reference monitor dedicated to Directors, DoPs and Creatives. And because our displays are hand-calibrated by the former Head of Imaging at MPC, you can trust what you see is exactly what you’ll get.

 

…or for clients worldwide, our state-of-the-art remote grading offers precision and personal service, wherever you are

 

If your team can’t join us in the studio, let’s collaborate digitally with a secure 10-bit 4:4:4 livestream, enabling real-time review and discussion.

Or share your brief via Zoom, leave the grade in our hands, and we’ll share high-fidelity secure links for review at your convenience.

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we’ve colour graded and delivered VFX for the world’s biggest brands, celebrities, music labels, studios and agencies

plus hundreds more on our full client list

 

and we’re the best-reviewed colour and VFX studio worldwide, with over 300 happy clients

 

 

featured work

 

womenswear

 

swim + surf

 

food + drink

 

theatre + dance

 

yoga + outdoors

 

sports + gym

 

hospitality

 

luxury

 

beauty + skincare

 

menswear

 

cars

 

documentary

 

digital

 

tech

 

gaming

 

finance

 

drama

 

thriller + horror

 

comedy

 

music videos + promos

 

live music

 

interview + branded docs

 

eco + nature


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we care about every client, so you can relax and know you’re in great hands


freelance pro colour grading

with discounts for indie projects

 



 

Formerly at an award-winning post-house in Paris, BSC-nominated senior colour grader Gabriel Xavier brings over 10 years experience and 300+ credits, on TVCs, brand content, branded documentary, feature films, music videos, promos, idents, broadcast, short films, artists moving image, web series, animation and more.

A technical expert, Gabriel knows how to bring the best out of any material: Arri, RED, Blackmagic, Sony, Phantom, Canon, Panasonic, GoPro, iPhone, Mavic, 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, VHS, HDV, 3D CGI, 2D animation, ACES, AI and XR+AR stage.

When involved as a pre-production consultant, he can grade camera tests or build a toolbox of shooting LUTs to help you capture the strongest possible material.

Beyond his technical fluency, Gabriel brings a refined aesthetic sensibility grounded in art history, cinema, and contemporary visual culture — making him an essential creative collaborator. Whether the brief calls for glossy commercial polish, poetic naturalism, or state-of-the-art 35mm film emulation, he approaches every project with precision and style.

Transcending the limits of a solo freelancer, Gabriel leads an exclusive in-house team of assistant colourists — all under his personal supervision and client care.

Best of all, all our industry-beating rates are by-the-hour, with no sneaky extras for conform, online work or deliverables.


best-value advanced VFX

we guarantee industry-beating value for our visual effects service

if you receive a lower quote from another professional facility, simply share it with us and we’ll do our best to match or beat it every time

  • paint

  • removals

  • compositing

  • rotoscoping

  • beauty

  • 3D product

  • 3D character

  • 24-hour turnarounds

 

Unique for an independent boutique, we offer a fully integrated high-end VFX service. Gabriel leads our exclusive VFX team, formerly in-house at a major studio, to make your bespoke visual effects dreams come true, using industry-leading After Effects, Nuke, Fusion and more.

For quick fixes, we provide beauty work, cosmetic improvements, retouch and paint-prep removals. This can address dark spots, dark circles, fly-away hairs, messy lipstick, lighting stands, scuffed floors, dirty infinity coves, wires, rigs, camera ops and almost anything else that your client dislikes.

Or for more ambitious VFX tasks, our scalable team has the experience to handle full advanced rotoscoping, compositing, 3D work, product renders, 3D characters and more. We love complex, demanding and bespoke projects, even across entire features and 23-hour turnarounds.

If you’re grading elsewhere, we’ll work with your colourist and editor to offer a standalone VFX service.

Or let us handle your entire post-edit pipeline — beginning with a balanced pre-grade, moving through VFX and then returning to colour for applied looks and final refinements.


one-on-one training for all

specifically for your needs

 

We take a unique approach to training, offering bespoke one-on-one sessions with our senior colourist, either in the studio, or over Zoom.

Unlike classroom training in large groups, or confusing online tutorials, these personal sessions are tailored directly to your goals, giving you the exact knowledge and tools you need for your workflow.

For videographers, directors and dops, we offer guidance on exposure, image pipelines, workflow best-practices and acquisition formats, sharing the unique insight of professionals who handle every type of footage daily. We help you develop the vocabulary and technical confidence to communicate with any colourist and get better results.

For aspiring colourists, we can put you in the driving seat of a professional calibrated suite, eliminating questionable monitors and cumbersome rendering that are serious barriers to learning. If you already have a functional workflow, we can focus on Q&As and share specific techniques to help you work better and faster.

For the most committed learners, we can teach you our complete workflow from scratch using our unique 12-hour programme across four sessions. This includes a 30-page guide on completion, video recordings, and bespoke powergrades — from simple balancing tools to advanced commercial node trees with 60+ nodes.


AI restoration + noise removal

to bring the best out of low quality, archival or underexposed material

 

For the trickiest shots — where grading tools alone won’t deliver the best-possible result — we offer specialist upscaling and denoising. We can retrieve a surprising level of detail from even the worst film scans, VHS copies, YouTube rips, low quality archive or underexposed footage, transforming your material into clean, usable assets.

Using our high-performance, multi-GPU system, we run advanced, fine-tuned AI algorithms and industry-leading Neat Video — far beyond what’s possible on a laptop. Then, we go further, to manually composite and layer in real texture to ensure your final output has the absolute highest-possible definition.


suite dry hire for edit+grade

with Resolve Remote capability + audio recording facility


 

Significantly larger and better-equipped than other affordable options in London, our luxury calibrated suite is available for dry hire seven days a week.

We’re perfect for freelance colourists in need of a calibrated facility, offline or online editors and advertising agencies requiring a client-friendly review space.

If your colourist isn’t in London but your clients are, we can host remote grading with a Resolve colourist anywhere in the world, allowing you to view their work in real-time on our high-end monitors while directing by video link.

Alongside colour, we even have professional sound recording capability for up to four people, allowing for podcasting, ADR dialogue replacement or affordable voice-over recording.

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we work by the hour at the best-value pro rates in Central London — starting from just £50/hour for grade and £150/task for VFX

send us a message or give us a call, and talk directly to a friendly expert right now… we’re always happy to advise, estimate, or say hello

 
 
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call us 10am-8pm UK

020 7177 7710

email us 24/7

gabriel@priorypost.co.uk

whatsapp 24/7

44 775 284 6855

come visit us in central london

less than 20 mins from Soho or Shoreditch on the Northern Line or by car

full address provided on booking

free secure off-street parking available

 

or let’s work remotely

we work with clients across the UK, and in every time zone, from New York to LA, Singapore to India, Australia to Japan

 

follow our latest work at @priorypostlondon