Crawford Post Productions and independent production company Echo Pictures are celebrating another season of Great Museums. The award winning public television series Great Museums aired across the country this summer and premiered in July on Hulu.com and Snagfilms.com. Crawford Post provides high definition editing sound design and mix along with HD formatting for this on-going documentary series highlighting museums from around the world. Each episode of Great Museums tells the story of a single museum using interviews with museum experts and stunning footage. The newest releases are the 2009 CINE Golden Eagle award-winner Great Museums of Havana: Curious About Cuba China: West Meets East at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian National Zoo: Wild Thing! Shows on New Orleans as a living museum of music and on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland will premiere in early 2010 and in 2011 respectively. Working closely with Echo Pictures Crawford Post’s senior editor/HD specialist Ron Heidt performs the online edit and seamlessly integrates dramatic location footage archival material digital assets titles graphics and credits. Steve Warner works on the sound design and mix and HD specialist Sheri Martin formats the files for delivery on the Web. Credits also go to freelance editors Al Abronski and Bobby Jones for the offline edit and production coordinator Randall Penn all of whom are Crawford alumni. “Echo Pictures brought Great Museums to Crawford Post when the series was making the transition from SD to HD ” says Marc Doyle executive producer for Echo Pictures. “The Great Museums brand has been building itself on public television for the last 10 years and now it’s migrating to Internet syndication and various mobile platforms. Thanks to Crawford I have a great deal of confidence in how our work will be effectively distributed particularly in the challenging and often confusing world of HD post-production. Extraordinary challenges are not roadblocks for Crawford. They solve every issue effectively.” “Public television technical standards are very specific and it’s important that each requirement is met ” says Kathleen Fitch vice president of Post Production for Crawford. “In the world of HD TV industry standards are still being worked out. It’s essential that our team stays current on all standards for the various networks. Echo Pictures has captured pristine footage of America’s most valuable institutions and our role is to ensure that it’s delivered to television audiences the same way it was acquired.” The series is distributed by American Public Television of Boston. Great Museums www.greatmuseums.org Crawford Post Production www.crawfordpost.com
