Pirate have the largest, most versatile video & 16mm Motion Control studio facility in the UK. Located near AFM Lighting with large ground floor access and free on-street parking, it's also the lowest cost motion control facility in London - just look at our Rates. Within easy reach of Central London and Heathrow Airport, we have clients not only from London's West End, but also from around Europe. We film sequences for most TV broadcasters, such as the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK.

Other motion control facilities may have modelmaking facilities comprising little more than a home handiman's tools, but at Pirate we have superb workshops and skilled staff in-house - our models & effects facilities.

We've built a fast, rigid head incorporating the compact Panasonic AW-E800E 2/3" chip broadcast camera. Uniquely, the camera is built into the mechanism, with the lens mount fitted directly to the roll axis bearing. This totally eliminates head shake. See Studio Equipment & Facilities

A recent innovation is the introduction of a Blackmagic Design "Decklink" harddisk recorder. This permits the recording of uncompressed Standard Definition video onto harddisk, taken away on a LaCie portable hard drive. The advantage is not only better quality (digiBeta recording is 2:1 compressed), but the files can be easily editied without digitising a tape into a system.