Three Dubai-based studio experts have joined hands to launch a specialised grading facility in Dubai Media City. Launched earlier this year, Mile Studios provides colour grading, sound and post production services for short movies, feature films, commercials and corporate films. Besides a sound recording studio, Mile Studios boasts a Foley Pit, which allows clients to […]
Three Dubai-based studio experts have joined hands to launch a specialised grading facility in Dubai Media City. Launched earlier this year, Mile Studios provides colour grading, sound and post production services for short movies, feature films, commercials and corporate films. Besides a sound recording studio, Mile Studios boasts a Foley Pit, which allows clients to record sounds on different surfaces including marble, sand and so on.
Our goal is to create uniquely recorded sound effects specifically for each project through the use of Foley and location sound, explained sound design supervisor John Kochanczyk.
The studio also has no separate audio booth for the artist as most studios in the region. Instead, the whole studio is acoustically treated, allowing a face to face interaction between the director and the artist. This design follows the Californian style, according to managing director Leo Joseph.
Mile Studios is equipped with the latest Pro Tools 10, configured for discrete 5.1 monitoring using Blue Sky THX certified speakers. In terms of processing, it currently uses the Waves Diamond Bundle of plugins, along with the Waves 360 surround tools, with a number of additional effects and plugins. It already has a sound library consisting of generous amounts of hard drive space with over 20,000 music tracks and more than 200,000 individual sound effects.
The colour grading unit is kitted out with the latest Da Vinci system, the Red Rocket as well as the Eizo grading monitor. It is equipped to handle digitally originated images from Arri Alexa, RED, Phantom, Canon, Sony, Panasonic and so on.
