Metropolitan Studio Undergoes Significant Reinvention Revealed
The Metropolis Studio, located in the heart of Manhattan at 106th and Park, has undergone a significant transformation and reopened its doors under the ownership of NEP Group. This state-of-the-art studio is now a landmark in the world of media production, designed with flexibility and versatility to cater to a wide range of production formats and client requirements.
NEP Group, a global leader in outsourced production solutions for live sports, entertainment, and corporate events, has poured its technical expertise and innovative solutions into the studio. The Metropolis Studio is fully integrated into NEP's 100G fully-redundant backbone network, ensuring seamless connectivity and collaboration across NEP's extensive production infrastructure.
The studio offers a plethora of services, including audio equipment rental, audio technicians, and audio-visual equipment rental. It also provides color correction & grading, communication equipment, concept & storyboard development, content delivery services, content management systems, and corporate production services. The studio's capabilities extend to augmented reality (AR) and automated dialogue replacement (ADR) services.
In addition, the Metropolis Studio specializes in 3D content creation and offers broadcast solutions, broadcast systems integration, closed captioning, cloud services, and cloud video-editing. It also provides broadcast consultants, broadcast engineering/ live graphics operators, and offers broadcasting equipment.
The studio's design emphasizes flexibility and scalability, accommodating a diverse range of production types. It boasts 6,400 square feet of unrestricted stage space, making it one of Manhattan's largest. The studio supports 4K / UHD / HDR capabilities, animation, and CGI.
The studio's location in East Harlem, Manhattan, places it in a strategic urban setting, well-connected to major broadcasting clients and talent pools. This premium infrastructure supports both traditional multi-camera studio shoots and innovative IP-enabled workflows, catering to the future of live and on-demand media production.
Moreover, the studio benefits from NEP’s advanced IP-based technology and network capabilities, allowing it to serve as a central hub for live broadcasting, media production, and event coverage with robust remote connectivity. This enables productions at Metropolis to be connected smoothly with other NEP resources, such as OB trucks and remote production units, enhancing operational efficiency and scalability.
The studio offers direct links to NEP's Dallas-based datacenter and Network Operations Center (NOC), as well as its South Florida production hub. It also provides services such as corporate video production, credits, titles & graphics, crew scouting & hiring, dailies, data/media transfer & storage, digital asset management (DAM) services, digital cinema, digital cinema distribution master/ DCDM, digital cinema package (DCP), digital environments (VFX), dynamic ad insertion (DAI), editing suites, editorial (post-production), electricians & lighting crew, eSports production, extended reality (XR), fibre optic transmission facilities, finishing & delivery, flypacks, foley, green screen studio, HDR finishing, HD/ UHD/ 4K post-production, HD/ UHD /4K production services, home studio solutions, lighting and shading (VFX), lighting equipment rental, live event coverage, live event production management, live music production / concert production, live video production companies, localisation, master control room, mixing, mixing studio, mobile audio units, mobile production units / broadcast TV trucks, mobile recording studios, multi-camera production companies, multi camera recording, on-set supplies & services, outside broadcast, performance/volumetric capture facilities, pitchvis, playout & delivery, playout facilities, post-production services, postvis, previsualisation, production, production equipment rental, production equipment & services, production facilities, projection mapping, real-time VFX, remote control / robotics equipment rentals, remote post-production, remote production, robotic camera systems, satellite service, satellite transmission facilities, SAT trucks / KU band, slow-motion videography, SNG operator, sound stage, stereo mixing, streaming solutions, studio rentals, surround sound mixing (5.1/7.1/9.1), truck rental, video equipment rental, video playback solutions, video projectors / projection equipment, video walls, LED screens & touch screen displays, virtual production, virtual sets, visual effects (VFX), webcasting services, wireless camera system, workflow management & solutions, XR stage/virtual production studio.
In summary, the Metropolis Studio offers cutting-edge production capability with flexible infrastructure and strong integration into NEP Group’s global network, emphasizing IP-based production, connectivity, and client-focused service delivery in a Manhattan location.
The Metropolis Studio, under NEP Group's ownership, leverages data-and-cloud-computing technology to provide seamless connectivity across its extensive production infrastructure and offer services such as remote production, cloud video-editing, and digital asset management (DAM). This technology integration allows the studio to serve as a central hub for media production with robust remote connectivity, enhancing operational efficiency and scalability.
By offering capabilities in 3D content creation, broadcast solutions, augmented reality (AR) services, and eSports production, the Metropolis Studio embeds technology into its production processes to cater to the future of live and on-demand media production.
