Crawford Post Production has recently completed multiple new equipment purchases as well as upgrades of several film, editing and compositing systems. There have been hardware/software upgrades to Crawford' s Spirit suite with the addition of the da Vinci 2K Plus, the Discreet Logic Fire/Inferno suite to V. 6 software, and the Flame suite with the addition of HD/SD Smoke and Flame on the SGI Tezro platform. Crawford has also increased its number of Avid Adrenaline suites and is now operating with an Avid Unity shared storage system. With Crawford' s new installations, clients will notice an increase in performance and speed, greater creative capabilities and improved quality.

"We've upgraded our Discreet Flame compositing station to 8.5 software and added more features and processing power, " said Bill Thompson, Vice President of Crawford Post Production. One of its most attractive benefits is its ability to work in standard definition as well as high definition formats.

A new Discreet HD smoke 6 editing system running on Tezro hardware brings Crawford's total number of HiDef edit systems to five. "We recently supercharged our Discreet Fire and Inferno to V. 6 software and added faster file storage drives, " explains Dave Warner, Director of Crawford Post Engineering. "The Fire/Inferno system is a very powerful, creative toolset. Our clients bring national spot projects to this suite and it's important that we perform at the highest level." All of Crawford's Discreet systems can file share and work on the same project simultaneously.