About
Our Services
Creative Editorial
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Our editorial visionaries thrive on collaboration. Working with creative partners all over the world, they help you tell a story that is far greater than the sum of its parts.Sound Design & Mixing
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Nothing punctuates a story like the perfect track or unforgettable sound design. Our award-winning team elevates the listening experience with the utmost skills and technology such as Dolby ATMOS mixing and surround sound. Our studio has both state-of-the-art technology and cozy/cool comfort. How does that sound?Color Grading
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Our colorists collaborate with award winning filmmakers and DP’s to set the perfect mood for your story. From 4K to the newest Dolby HDR, we promise you’ll like what you see.Motion Graphics
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Enhance the story and make the point by moving your graphics. Our team of graphic designers and animators will create bespoke imagery and words.VFX & Finishing
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Our artistic and technology experts guide you through the last – and arguably most important – step in the storytelling process. Superior finishing includes compositing, clean up, motion graphics, and animation for effortless delivery to any screen.
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Austin, TX
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Services
- Post Supervision
- Digital Workflow Design
- Remote Editing / Streaming
- Creative Editorial
- Motion Graphics
- Compositing / Flame / VFX
- Color Grading / DI / Finishing
- Bespoke Color Science
- DCI Projection
- HDR / Dolby Vision Certified
- Sound Design
- Audio Mixing
- VO / ADR
- Source Connect Pro X
- Dolby ATMOS
- Dolby Mixing Certified
- Dailies / Transcodes
- Digital Lab Services
- Media Shuttle File Transfers
- 1000/1000 Fiber Internet
- Standards Conversion
- 2K & 4K DCP
- DCP Encryption
- KDM Creation
- IMF & Supplemental Packaging
- LTO Archiving
The team.
Our crew is an ever growing pool of creative editors, digital artists, sound mixers, colorists, graphic designers, animators and producers.
Rachel Kichler
Executive Producer
Rachel grew up outside of Cleveland, then headed to film school at Northwestern. After seeing her earliest favorite movie Singing in the Rain on 35mm the first day of class, she knew she had chosen the right major and was hooked forever. Coming up through the ranks as an agency producer in NY, Rachel learned to navigate the most challenging of projects and deadlines with the utmost of ease. Most recently an EP at Preacher in Austin, we’re so glad Rachel decided to focus purely on the making of films and spots and moved to TBD Post as a Senior Post Producer where she expertly collaborates with creatives, agencies and artists to sculpt a finely tuned project every time. You can trust her to pay attention to every nuance to get the best out of your time and budget. Rachel loves spending time with her family and dog, exploring the Austin greenbelt. And circling back to that childhood goal of filmmaking, Rachel is currently writing, directing and finishing her first short film.
Ted Griffis
Partner / Post Supervisor / Sr. Editor
Ted grew up in Tucson, AZ where he raced bikes through the desert landscape and backpacked through the mountains. The southwest shaped his early love of photography, but his studies would lead him to very different terrain. He studied fine art photography at the Art Institute of Boston before beginning his editing career in New York City. Moving from stills to the jigsaw puzzle of editing was a natural evolution and creatively rewarding. He has always loved how sequencing impacts the creative language of story. Starting in documentaries and then later commercials, he soon found himself traveling around the world working on campaigns for Mazda, Range Rover, Shiner Beer, El Jimador, IBM, and Bottega Venetta for agencies Ogilvy & Mather, FCB, McJ and others. Visual storytelling and image making has always been a passion and, when not cutting, Ted supervises post on most series and films that come through TBD. He is a trusted source for filmmakers and producers nationally and internationally and as one of TBD’s founding partners, Griffis is proud to be part of the vibrant Austin creative community.
Brandon Thomas
Partner / Sr. Colorist
Brandon is a colorist extraordinaire. This makes sense, since he was born in arguably the most colorful town in the lower 48: New Orleans. The first film he graded premiered at SXSW in 2009; since then he's colored over 60 films, more than 150 TV episodes, the Netflix film Blue Miracle, tons of commercials and now even some TikToks. In 2020, Brandon colored the PBS Frontline winner of Gotham Award for Best Documentary A Thousand Cuts. Brandon is a proud dogfather of failed service dog Charlie, and his favorite pastimes are hiking with, cooking with, and hanging out with his wife. Swoon-worthy, right? His childhood dream was to be an architect; it’s our good fortune that he figured out how to build things with the spectrum. Brandon is unapologetic about his favorite cocktail, the El Jefe, which combines many, many items you rarely see together. It’s very colorful. And so we have come full circle.
Joel Pettit
Sr. Producer
Joel is a long-distance runner (eight marathons) so it’s not surprising that he specializes in long form projects. He likes the feeling of accomplishment that comes from transforming a concept from the chaos of the dailies to a perfect jewel of a finished piece. A native of the Houston area, Joel graduated from UT Austin with a degree in film then hit the ground running. He moved to New York and got his feet wet working on cultural icons like Gossip Girl and 30 Rock, and some films: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, and (his highest personal achievement) Beyonce’s Live at Roseland: Elements of 4. He moved to Austin in 2012 and mastered the seamless weaving together of all the disparate elements that make for a successful project. He loves a challenge because “that’s how you learn.” Joel sometimes wonders what life would be like if he’d pursued his childhood dream of being a grocery clerk. He knows he’d have been good at it, and that technically it’s not too late, but he really loves what he does. Joel and his superior abilities are all things you’ll enjoy spending time with.
Ellie Main
Producer
Ellie Main was born in London before moving to and growing up in Kent, the “garden of England.” Her background is extremely varied, from being the drummer in a fifty piece big band jazz group when she was eleven, to working at the 2012 London Olympics as a camera operator, to buying Meryl Streep some “f***ing nice vodka” for her dressing room. She spent a summer driving across Europe in an airstream before moving to Austin for an opportunity to produce and be a presenter at Rooster Teeth Productions. There, she created an Apocalypse Survival show where she learned archery, parkour, lock picking, bushcraft, and how to flip a Ford Crown Victoria (why you would need this specific skill in an apocalypse, we’re not totally sure, but it’s still a very cool skill to have). In her spare time she plays in a band, hosts a podcast, writes/watches/makes comedy films, plays video games, and still somehow finds time to produce projects at TBD Post. Ellie has a dog named Potato Chip and a cat named Cheeseball. She hopes to continue her food theme pet names with, perhaps, a lizard named Waffles.