The Studio
Built on craft.
Complete finishing. Zero compromise.
TP Studio is a Melbourne-based boutique finishing studio led by Thanassi Panagiotaras C.S.I., with 25 years of experience across feature film, documentary, television, streaming, branded content and campaign production. Colour, online, mastering, deliverables and AI production handled as one connected finish, so nothing falls through the gap and nothing leaves until it's right.
Longform credits include Stan, ABC and Amazon Prime Video. Brand and campaign work spans every major Australian network and international clients across broadcast, cinema and digital.
The Standard
How the studio works
Four principles that define every project, regardless of format, budget or deadline.
Services
The full finishing pipeline
Testimonials
What collaborators say
"Thanassi has handled post-production finishing on several of our longform projects, and he's consistently delivered world-class results. His grading is story-driven, his technical work flawless, and he always gets us across the line."
"I've worked with Thanassi on several feature projects, and on each he has performed miracles across multiple roles: conform, colourist, VFX, titles, archive clean-up, even delivery. Can't recommend him highly enough."
"Thanassi is a rare blend of technical mastery and creative intuition, someone I can trust to elevate the artistic vision and deliver a great client experience. A true professional and a pleasure to collaborate with."
"Thanassi has been my go-to colourist for nearly a decade and continues to be an invaluable creative partner. His grading finds the perfect balance between technical precision and artistic flair, and he's certainly the best I've worked with in Australia."
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Services
AI Campaigns · For Brands & Businesses
Broadcast-Quality Ads.
Without the Shoot.
Your brand needs more video than its budget can shoot. A traditional spot runs fifteen to fifty thousand dollars and weeks of production. Cheaper content is fast, but it looks it. TP Studio makes the whole campaign with AI generation and finishes it to broadcast standard, concept to delivery, in one studio.
No Shoot Required
Product shots, moving scenes, whole worlds, generated from your brand assets, your stills, or nothing but a brief. No crews, no locations, no weather.
Finished Properly
This is the difference. AI shops make clips. TP Studio is a broadcast finishing studio, so every frame is edited, graded and mastered to the standard networks demand.
Every Format, Every Screen
Social, digital, out-of-home, cinema, TV. One campaign, delivered correctly to every platform's specification. That has been the studio's job for 25 years.
How It Works
Brief to Broadcast, One Studio.
01 · Strategy
The Full Campaign
Live market and category data, positioning and a platform built to run for years. The agency-level build, when you want the whole thing. Already have your strategy? We start at the next step.
02 · Brief
We Shape the Idea
Your product, audience and goal become a concrete creative concept, with boards you react to before anything is made.
03 · Generate
AI Production
Scenes built with the strongest current AI video models, art-directed shot by shot until the material serves the idea.
04 · Finish
Edit, Grade, Polish
Cut into a story, colour graded in a calibrated suite, cleaned and polished. 25 years of craft that makes AI material look like cinema.
05 · Deliver
Ready to Run
Masters delivered to spec for every placement, from Instagram to airport screen to TV network. You press publish, it works.
Proof · Made Entirely With AI
Every Frame Below Was Generated. None of It Was Filmed.
No cameras, no sets, no stock footage. Generated with AI, then edited, graded and mastered in our suite to broadcast standard.
Two Ways to Work With Us.
Built for brands that want to look bigger than their budget.
Full Campaign
Strategy-led, end to end
We build the strategy from live market data, then design, generate and finish the whole campaign. The agency model, without the agency overhead. For brands without an agency who want the whole thing handled.
Production Engine
You bring the brief
You or your agency bring the strategy. We are the generation and finishing engine that turns it into broadcast-ready content, a single campaign or ongoing month to month. For teams who have the strategy and need the output.
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Tell Us What You're Selling.
We'll Show You What's Possible.
A short conversation about your product and goals, then a concrete proposal with concept directions, timeline and cost.
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Case Studies
Selected case studies showing how TP Studio solves real production, post-production and finishing challenges across campaign content, AI-generated material, broadcast and theatrical delivery, and feature documentary workflows.
Spencer Street Station, Melbourne
Delivered: Q1 2026 · AI campaign production · 3-screen OOH installation
The Brief
Two 15-second branded content executions for transit screens at Spencer Street Station. Three physically separate screens treated as one continuous canvas: Screen 1 (9:16), Screen 2 (9:16), Screen 3 (16:9). Base assets were photoshoot stills only, no footage.
The Challenge
Creating fluid, continuous motion across three screens with different aspect ratios, from static images, under a live production deadline, using tools being evaluated simultaneously for the first time.
The Workflow
The brief landed in late December. Sourcing a specialist 3D artist over the Christmas period, against the budget and the deadline, was not an option. That constraint forced the question: could this be done with AI? Two animated executions were developed simultaneously to answer it. The Clock: an AI-generated alarm clock travelling across all three screens, exploding on Screen 3 into a pack shot reveal. The Cranberry Stream: an AI-generated juice stream crossing all three screens, hitting the floor on Screen 3 and rising into a bottle reveal. AI generation tools were identified, evaluated and deployed under a live production deadline.
The Finish
Generated material assembled across all three formats, colour graded and online finished, mastered to the installation specification for each screen and delivered to deadline.
The Result
A brief that would traditionally have gone to a 3D specialist, delivered another way and running live at Spencer Street Station, Melbourne. This was TP Studio's first deliberate move into AI video generation, and the project that opened the discipline now embedded across the studio's work.
TP Studio Role: AI Motion Development · Editing · Colour · Finishing · Deliverables
Gruen: The Pitch
4-day turnaround · Offline edit · Colour grade · Online finish · Broadcast delivery
The Brief
Produce a finished TVC for Gruen's The Pitch segment on ABC. Rushes delivered Thursday evening. Broadcast-ready master required Tuesday morning. Four days from raw footage to air.
The Challenge
The footage was shot on a heavily overcast beach day. The brief required sunny beach. Every frame needed to work against what the camera recorded. Editorial shape, colour grade, online finish and broadcast delivery all inside an immovable deadline.
The Workflow
Rushes arrived Thursday night. Friday through Sunday: offline edit, agency revision rounds, picture lock. Monday afternoon: locked edit approved. Monday night through 3:30AM: colour grade and online finish. Tuesday 8AM: approval. Delivered to ABC before 9AM Tuesday morning.
The Finish
Colour grade and online finish completed Monday night through to 3:30AM, the overcast rushes carried to a sunny beach grade, every frame cleared and mastered to broadcast specification for ABC.
The Result
Delivered to ABC before 9AM Tuesday, four days from raw footage to air. The spot won The Pitch for that episode.
TP Studio Role: Offline Edit · Agency Revisions · Colour Grade · Online Finishing · Broadcast Delivery
Documentary AI Pipeline
Production and post running concurrently · Director: Stephen Amis · Label Distribution
The Brief
Feature documentary centred on the 1988 Knowles family UFO incident on the Nullarbor Plain. The incident has never been filmed. The production required fully synthetic AI reenactments, integrated into a traditional theatrical-standard documentary pipeline alongside real location footage.
The Challenge
Integrating a full AI production pipeline across an entire feature documentary, where synthetic material spans six distinct categories: historical reenactments, protagonist encounters, surreal and expressionistic sequences, period illustrations, production gap fills, and composited interview environments. Every category of AI-generated material has to cut, match, grade and deliver to theatrical delivery standard alongside real location footage shot across two weeks on the Nullarbor Plain.
The Workflow
AI generation is not supplementary B-roll. It is embedded throughout the film from the first frame to the last. The six production categories in active development: the full multi-scene Knowles reenactments including the chase, the car becoming airborne and the family in scrub; Clark's own UAP encounter recreation; cosmos and surreal sequences including the Cocklebiddy sinkhole; historical illustrations covering Australian UFO incidents from 1947 to 1985 where no archival footage exists; production gap fills covering A-roll and B-roll that couldn't be captured on location; and AI-generated environments for archive interview compositing. Generated using the latest AI image and video models from Seedance, Kling, OpenAI and Google, alongside specialist tools selected for specific production requirements as the pipeline evolves.
The Finish
Every category of AI-generated material colour graded to match real location footage and finished to theatrical delivery standard. Colour, online, mastering and deliverables handled as one continuous operation.
Selected frames from the AI production pipeline. In production.
Clark Watson, AI-generated A-roll. Flight to Perth.
Patrick Knowles, fully synthetic period reconstruction. 1988.
Cocklebiddy Roadhouse. AI-enhanced location footage.
Clark Watson, expressionistic sequence. The Nullarbor was once an ocean.
The Result
A real historical event, never filmed, reconstructed as fully synthetic reenactment and integrated frame for frame into a theatrical documentary pipeline alongside live location footage. The most complex AI production TP Studio has undertaken. Full case study on release of The Nullarbor.
TP Studio Role: Post Production Supervisor · AI Production Lead · Colour Grade · Online Finishing · Mastering & Deliverables
Founder · TP Studio
About
Melbourne, Australia
Thanassi Panagiotaras C.S.I. is a Melbourne-based post-production finishing specialist and founder of TP Studio, with 25 years of experience across colour grading, online editing, mastering, deliverables, archival restoration and AI and synthetic production. His work spans feature documentary, broadcast television, streaming platforms, branded content and campaign production.
He came into the industry at the exact moment it flipped from analog to digital. His first tools were Adobe Premiere 5.1, Apple Final Cut Pro 1.0, Adobe After Effects 4.0, and miniDV. He didn't inherit a career. He built one from the ground up, learning compositing, motion graphics, and offline editing through sheer obsession with the craft.
After completing a video production course and co-founding a production company through the early 2000s, he joined La Trobe University in 2004 as part of a full studio production team. For ten years the work was daily and relentless: multi-camera shoots, live switching, location sound, camera work, post production across every format the era could produce. It built a technical foundation most practitioners never get.
It was at La Trobe that colour grading became an obsession. Apple's Final Cut Studio introduced Color, a node-based grading application, and Thanassi was immediately drawn in. When Apple killed Final Cut Studio and Color along with it, he found DaVinci Resolve 9 and started putting himself through training on his own time and at his own expense. Master class after master class, working colourists at the top of the industry. By the time he left La Trobe in 2014, with a redundancy package that gave him the runway to go independent, he was ready.
His first freelance job was a feature film as colourist. He hasn't looked back.
Since 2014, operating as TP Studio, he has finished longform projects for Stan, ABC, and Amazon Prime Video, graded campaigns for major Australian and international brands, delivered finished work to every major Australian broadcast network, mastered feature documentaries for theatrical release through Label Distribution, and feature film work delivered through US distributor VMI Releasing. His credits span the full post pipeline: offline editing, colour grading, online finishing, archival restoration, mastering, and deliverables, often as the sole finishing specialist across a project from first assembly to final delivery.
The archival restoration work deserves particular mention. On Suzi Q, Love in Bright Landscapes and Abebe Butterfly Song, he spent hundreds of hours processing decades-old documentary footage: Betacam, standard definition and interlaced material from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, processed frame by frame and brought up to a standard that held up on cinema screens and streaming platforms. TP Studio brings older, damaged or mixed-format footage into modern finishing pipelines through restoration, colour correction, clean-up, online finishing and delivery. It is painstaking, technically demanding work that requires both technical care and visual sensitivity. Most finishing houses won't take it on.
The AI integration came in late 2025, not from curiosity about the technology but from a client brief that demanded it. An Ocean Spray campaign for Spencer Street Station in Melbourne required animated product reveals across three physically separate screens treated as a single continuous display. There was no footage, only stills. He identified, evaluated and deployed AI generation tools under live production conditions and delivered on deadline. That first job opened the door to a discipline that has since become a core part of the studio offering.
He is now the AI production lead on The Nullarbor, a feature documentary directed by Stephen Amis, where fully synthetic AI-generated reenactments of the 1988 Knowles family UFO incident are being produced and integrated into a theatrical-standard pipeline alongside traditional documentary footage.
Post Production
DaVinci Resolve Studio · Premiere Pro · After Effects · Photoshop
AI Pipeline
Higgsfield · Seedance · Kling · GPT Image 2 · Nano Banana Pro · ElevenLabs · Suno · Topaz Video AI
TP Studio is a fully calibrated boutique post-production studio operating from Melbourne. It is not a freelancer with a laptop. It is a specialist operation with 25 years of craft behind it, capable of taking a project from first cut to final delivery and now, from concept to synthetic image.
Career Arc
How I got here
Entry into Post-Production
The industry was mid-flip from analog to digital. First tools: Adobe Premiere 5.1, Apple Final Cut Pro 1.0, Adobe After Effects 4.0, miniDV. Compositing, motion graphics, and offline editing became the foundation. Live directing and multi-camera switching experience developed early.
Real Time Audio Visual Entertainment
Co-founded a production company with five collaborators. Corporate production, live event coverage, and VJ work, creating real-time video content for major festivals. The full production workflow, worn all at once.
La Trobe University
Ten years as part of a full studio production team. Multi-camera shoots, live switching, location sound, camera work, post production across every format the era could produce. Thousands of hours at volume. Colour grading interest developed here, through Apple Color and then DaVinci Resolve 9, pursued independently, on personal time, at personal expense.
Went Independent
A university restructure and redundancy package provided the runway. First freelance job: a feature film as colourist. TP Studio established.
TP Studio
Boutique post-production finishing. Colour grading, online editing, mastering and deliverables, offline editing for select clients. Credits include Stan, ABC, Amazon Prime Video, and every major Australian broadcast network. Archival restoration on multiple feature documentaries. Tropfest finalist x2, St Kilda Film Festival, international festival credits. Member, Colourist Society International.
AI Integration
Adopted AI image and video generation under live production conditions, on a client brief with a hard deadline. Developed hybrid AI and traditional pipelines for results finished to spec. Currently AI production lead on The Nullarbor, a feature documentary with fully synthetic AI reenactments integrated into a theatrical-standard pipeline.
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