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a revolution in post-production

 

Set in a beautiful gothic chapel, Priory Post is the world’s best-reviewed boutique colour grading and VFX studio.

We offer senior freelance DaVinci Resolve colorist Gabriel Xavier, plus his exclusive team of advanced VFX artists and assistant colourists, attended in our luxury custom-built Central London color grading suite, or remotely worldwide. Servicing the biggest brands, agencies and record labels, our innovative creativity, technical excellence, quick turnarounds and unbeatable reliability rival any Soho post-house.

And yet as a true boutique, our personal approach also offers the economy and flexibility of a freelancer. We offer remote colour grading sessions starting from £50/hour, attended in-person color grading sessions starting from £75/hour, and VFX starting from £200/shot — a unique combination of affordability and excellence on TVCs, brand content, music videos, feature films and more.

 
 

in our multi-monitor luxury suite designed specifically for attended grading and review, clients and agencies can relax and film-makers can work at their absolute best…

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Inside a private off-street mews, we offer the most comfortable boutique facility in London, a beautiful bespoke space that moves seamlessly from daylight to full blackout, plus 1GB/s dedicated fibre, air conditioning, great coffee, snacks, secure off-street parking and original artwork by David Shrigley.

Meanwhile, our broadcast-standard set-up allows for unrivalled processing power, flawless monitoring and uniquely ergonomic grading, with multi-GPU Mac Pro, 10-bit Sony imaging, custom-machined Resolve panel, over 15000 LUTs, hundreds of grain scans, and industry-leading 35mm film emulation.

Unlike other facilities, our client area offers more than just a TV, with its own high-spec OLED reference monitor just for Directors, DoPs and Creatives. And because our screens are regularly 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 anywhere in the world, we offer state-of-the-art remote grading to suit you

 

If your team can’t join us in the studio, let’s collaborate digitally with a secure 10-bit 444 livestream for virtual review and realtime 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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clients

 

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

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plus hundreds more on our full client list

 

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

 

fashion + luxury

beauty

sportswear

theatre + dance

documentary

food + drink

tech + digital

finance

cars

drama

thriller + horror

comedy

music videos + promos

live music

interview + branded docs


follow our latest work at @priorypostlondon

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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, our BSC-nominated senior colour grader Gabriel Xavier has 8+ 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.

As a technical expert, he 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 and XR+AR stage.

When involved as a pre-production consultant, he can even grade camera tests or build a toolbox of shooting LUTs or to help you get the best footage possible.

At the same time, his sensitive aesthetic understanding of art history, cinema history and current trends in fashion, advertising and film-making make him an essential artistic collaborator. His multifaceted creative approaches can follow any brief — from the glossiest of commercials, to beautiful naturalistic documentary, and even state-of-the-art 35mm film emulation.

Transcending the limited capacity of a single freelancer, Gabriel also leads and manages an exclusive in-house team of accomplished assistant colourists, always with the assurance of his supervision and personal 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

share a lower quote from another facility 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 also provide a fully comprehensive 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 quick 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 workflow — starting from a perfectly balanced pre-grade, moving to VFX and then returning to grade for applied looks and final tweaks.


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 in our studio, or over Zoom. Unlike classroom training in large groups, or confusing online tutorials, these personal sessions can be tailored directly to your aspirations, giving you the specific information and tools you need for your work.

For videographers, directors and dops, we can advise on exposure, image pipelines, workflow practices and different acquisition formats, offering the unique wisdom of professionals who handle a wide variety of footage every day. We can offer a vocabulary and technical understanding that will make it easier to get great results from a talented colourist anywhere.

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 answer Q&As and share specific techniques to help you work better and faster.

For the most determined, 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 our bespoke powergrades that scale from the simplest of balancing jobs to huge complex commercial grades with 60+ nodes.


AI restoration and noise removal

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

 

For the trickiest shots where grading tools alone aren’t enough to get the best high quality result, we have specialist approaches to upres and denoise footage, allowing us to retrieve a surprising level of detail from even the worst film scans, VHS copies, YouTube rips, low quality archive or underexposed material.

Taking advantage of our powerful GPUs to run bespoke processes that would be impossible on a laptop, we can apply fine-tuned cutting-edge AI algorithms and industry-leading Neat Video across footage and then manually composite and layer in real texture to ensure your final output has the absolute best 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.

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 set up remote grading with a Resolve colourist anywhere in the world, allowing you to view their work in real-time on our calibrated monitors while directing by video link.

Alongside colour, we even have professional sound recording capability for up to four people, perfect 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 £200/shot 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