Colourist · Online Editor · Mastering & Deliverables

High-End Post-Production Finishing

Trusted by broadcasters, streamers, and brands for over two decades.

ABC SBS Stan Prime Video Channel 7 Channel 9 Channel 10 ESPN Label Distribution Post Lab.io Guilty Positive Ape

About

Every frame matters.

25+
Years Experience
C.S.I.
Member

I'm Thanassi Panagiotaras a Melbourne-based post-production finishing specialist with 25 years of experience across feature film, documentary, television, and branded content.

I came up at the birth of digital post, built my craft through a decade of daily production at La Trobe University, and hit the ground running as a colourist on a feature film before going independent. Since 2014, I've been freelancing finishing longform projects for Stan, ABC, and Amazon Prime Video, grading campaigns for major Australian and international brands, and delivering broadcast-ready work across every major Australian network.

I work from a fully calibrated boutique studio in Melbourne. I bring a story-driven eye and a meticulous technical standard to every project from first grade to final delivery.

C.S.I. Member, Colourist Society International


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Services

What I do

01

Colour Grading

Story-driven grading for feature film, documentary, television, and branded content. Every grade is built to serve the narrative whether that's a bold cinematic look, period-accurate restoration, or clean broadcast-ready colour.

02

Online Editing & Finishing

Full online from conform through VFX integration, titles, and final QC. Everything locked, polished, and ready for delivery before it leaves the room.

03

Mastering & Deliverables

Broadcast, streaming, cinema, and digital every spec met, every platform covered. DCPs, ProRes, IMF, broadcast masters. Nothing leaves without passing muster.

04

Offline Editing

For select clients. 25 years of experience shaping cuts from first assembly through to fine cut. Available as a standalone service or part of a full post pipeline.

05

AI-Integrated Production

Generative image and video integrated directly into traditional post pipelines. Colour-consistent, graded to match, deliverable to broadcast spec. Not hype problem-solving.

The Nullarbor

Feature Documentary · Director: Stephen Amis · Revolution Pictures

Exploring decades of UFO encounters on the Nullarbor Plain, centred on the 1988 Knowles family incident. AI-generated imagery and video integrated throughout, including fully synthetic reenactments graded and finished to broadcast standard.

AI Production Colourist Online Editor Mastering & Deliverables
The Nullarbor

Testimonials

What collaborators say

"

I've known Thanassi for many years. He's 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.

Darius Faily
Post Lab.io
"

Thanassi has handled finishing on several of our longform projects, and he consistently delivers top-tier results. His grading is story-driven, his technical work is flawless, and he always gets us across the line whether for cinema, broadcast, or streamers. He's a trusted part of our post team.

Steven Amis
Revolution Pictures
"

I've been working with Thanassi as my go-to colourist for nearly a decade and he's been an invaluable creative partner on every project. We've collaborated on dozens of commercials, short films, and features, and his consistency, attention to detail and creative intuition have elevated every production. Technically he's exceptional, creatively he's second to none and the best colourist I've worked with in Australia.

Shaun Herbertson
Huddle Productions

Let's work together

Ready to finish your
project with precision?

Broadcast, streaming, cinema, branded content. Colour, online, mastering. Let's talk.

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Selected Work

Credits

Darklands
Darklands
Stan AU / Amazon Prime Video
Suzi Q
Suzi Q
Feature Documentary: Suzi Quatro
Love in Bright Landscapes
Love in Bright Landscapes
Documentary: The Triffids and David McComb
Gatwick: The Last Chance Hotel
Gatwick: The Last Chance Hotel
ABC Australia
Jarracharra
Jarracharra
Teaser Documentary
Colourist
The RIP
The RIP
Feature Film
Colourist
Abebe Butterfly Song
Abebe Butterfly Song
Feature Documentary
Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
Land Rover Defender
Land Rover Defender
Land Rover
Colourist
Bonds Wondercool
Bonds Wondercool
Bonds
Colourist
Cadbury Countlines
Cadbury Countlines
Cadbury
Offline Editor, VFX, Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
Epson EcoTank
Epson EcoTank
Epson
Colourist, VFX
Dare
Dare
Dare Iced Coffee
Colourist
Shannons
Shannons
Shannons Insurance
Colourist
Tourism Western Australia
Tourism Western Australia
Tourism Western Australia
Colourist
SBS Inclusion
SBS Inclusion
SBS
Offline Editor, Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
Coopers Vintage Ale
Coopers Vintage Ale
Coopers
Offline Editor, Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
Dairy Australia
Dairy Australia
Dairy Australia
Colourist
Brightgreen
Brightgreen
Brightgreen Lighting
Offline Editor, VFX, Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
Cadbury Favourites
Cadbury Favourites
Cadbury
Offline Editor, Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
ARB: The Old Days
ARB: The Old Days
ARB 4WD Accessories
Colourist
Jenny Craig
Jenny Craig
Jenny Craig
Colourist
Wild Secrets
Wild Secrets
Wild Secrets
Colourist
Hotel Karen
Hotel Karen
Hotel Karen Resort, China
Offline Editor, Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
Nylex
Nylex
Nylex
Offline Editor, Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
Adriatic Furniture
Adriatic Furniture
Adriatic Furniture
Colourist
RACV Resorts
RACV Resorts
RACV Resorts
Colourist
Ocean Spray
Ocean Spray
Ocean Spray · Agency: The Reactor
Offline Editor, Motion Graphics, Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
The Blind Factory
The Blind Factory
The Blind Factory
Colourist
Bitcoin Explained
Bitcoin Explained
VIRAL — 4M+ views, shared by Elon Musk
Offline Editor, Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
There's a Mobster Under My Bed
There's a Mobster Under My Bed
Short Film: Tropfest Finalist
Colourist
Shakespeare Republic
Shakespeare Republic
Web Series: Multiple Festival Credits
Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables
Fake It Till You Make It
Fake It Till You Make It
Vertical Episodic Series
Post Production Coordinator, Offline Editor, Colourist, Online Editor, Mastering and Deliverables

Showing all 32 projects

Broadcast, Streaming & Brand Clients
ABC SBS Channel 7 Channel 9 Channel 10 ESPN Stan Prime Video Label Distribution Post Lab.io Positive Ape Guilty Cadbury Land Rover Bonds Coopers Shannons Epson Ocean Spray RACV Resorts Tourism WA Dairy Australia Jenny Craig Zoos Victoria

What I do

Services

01
Colour Grading

Story-driven grading for feature film, documentary, television, and branded content. Every grade is built to serve the narrative, whether that's a bold cinematic look, period-accurate restoration, or clean broadcast-ready colour. I work in DaVinci Resolve Studio on a calibrated reference monitor, delivering to any broadcast or streaming specification.

Feature Film Documentary Television Series Branded Content Short Film Online Content

Full online from conform through VFX integration, titles, and final QC. Everything locked, polished, and ready for delivery before it leaves the room. No handoffs. No surprises.

Conform VFX Integration Titles & Credits Audio Sync Final QC Versioning
02
Online Editing & Finishing
03
Mastering & Deliverables

Every spec met, every platform covered. I've delivered to every major Australian broadcaster and streaming platform, as well as international distribution. I know the specs, the pitfalls, and how to get your project through QC first time.

DCP ProRes Masters IMF Packages Broadcast Masters Streaming Delivery Multi-format Versioning

For select clients. 25 years of experience shaping cuts from first assembly through to fine cut. Available as a standalone service or as part of a full post pipeline. I edit in Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, bringing a story-first instinct and a producer's eye to the structure.

Documentary Branded Content Corporate
04
Offline Editing
05
AI-Integrated Production

Generative image and video integrated directly into traditional post pipelines. Colour-consistent, graded to match, deliverable to broadcast spec. Adopted in late 2025 to solve specific production problems within budget, not from hype. Currently in production on The Nullarbor, a feature documentary with fully synthetic AI reenactments.

Image Generation Video Generation AI Reenactments Hybrid AI / Live Action Broadcast-ready Delivery

Ready to talk?

Tell me about your project and let's work out how to get it finished right.

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The person behind the grade

About

Thanassi Panagiotaras
Thanassi Panagiotaras
Post-Production Finishing Specialist
Melbourne, Australia
C.S.I. Member, Colourist Society International

Thanassi Panagiotaras is a Melbourne-based post-production finishing specialist with 25 years of experience across feature film, documentary, television, and branded content.

He came up at the birth of digital post Final Cut Pro 1, After Effects 1, Adobe Premiere (pre-Pro), miniDV and built a strong compositing background from the ground up. After a decade as Post Production Officer at La Trobe University, his first freelance job was a feature film as colourist. He has been operating independently as tpfilm.com.au since 2014.

Since going independent he has finished longform projects for Stan, ABC, and Amazon Prime Video, graded campaigns for major Australian and international brands, and delivered broadcast-ready work across every major Australian network. He works from a fully calibrated boutique studio and brings a story-driven eye and meticulous technical standard to every project from first grade to final delivery.

In late 2025 he integrated AI video and image generation tools directly into broadcast-standard pipelines not from hype, but to solve specific production problems within budget. He is currently in post on The Nullarbor, a feature documentary where fully synthetic AI-generated reenactments are being produced and integrated into a broadcast-standard pipeline.

Career Arc

How I got here

2000

Entry into Post-Production

Birth of digital post. First tools: Final Cut Pro 1, After Effects 1, Adobe Premiere (pre-Pro), miniDV. Strong compositing background developed from the ground up. Live directing and vision switching experience.

2004–2014

La Trobe University

10 years as Post Production Officer. Daily filming and editing across the full production pipeline. Built deep technical fluency across every format, codec, and delivery spec of the era.

2014

Went Independent

First freelance job out of La Trobe was a feature film as colourist. Has been freelancing independently ever since tpfilm.com.au established as Melbourne's boutique finishing destination.

2014–Present

tpfilm.com.au

Boutique post-production finishing. Specialisation: Colour Grading, Online Editing & Finishing, Mastering & Deliverables. Offline Editing for select clients. Tropfest finalist ×2, St Kilda Film Festival, international festivals. Major broadcast, streaming, and brand clients built over this period including Stan, ABC, Amazon Prime Video, Channel 7, Channel 9, Channel 10, SBS.

Late 2025–Present

AI Integration

Adopted AI video and image generation tools into broadcast-standard pipelines. Not from hype adopted to solve specific production problems within budget. Currently in post on The Nullarbor, a feature documentary with fully synthetic AI reenactments integrated into a broadcast-standard pipeline.

Let's make something great.

25 years of precision finishing, ready for your next project.

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AI Integration Case Studies

Process

Ocean Spray · The Reactor

Spencer Street Station, Melbourne

Delivered: 01 May 2026

01

Two 15-second branded content executions for transit screens at Spencer Street Station. Three physically separate screens treated as one continuous display Screen 1 (9:16), Screen 2 (9:16), Screen 3 (16:9).

Campaign 1 The Clock: AI-generated alarm clock flying across all three screens, explodes on Screen 3 revealing Ocean Spray pack shot (three bottles).

Campaign 2 The Cranberry Stream: AI-generated cranberry juice stream travelling across all three screens, hits floor on Screen 3, bottles rise from floor for pack shot.

Base assets: photoshoot stills. Tools used: Adobe Firefly · Runway · Google Flow · Higgsfield · Kling 2.6. First live production AI job tools were actively evaluated and tested simultaneously under live production conditions.

Key Lesson

Multi-screen installations treated as a single continuous canvas require careful motion planning across all three screens simultaneously. AI generation is well-suited to creating physically impossible motion paths that would be prohibitively expensive to produce practically.

CMC Markets

AFL Campaign Saint Kilda FC

Broadcast Delivery

02

Client: CMC Markets (stock trading app). Campaign: Saint Kilda Football Club sponsorship featuring major AFL players.

The Problem: Footage shot on a heavily overcast day flat lighting, no shadows, no depth. Unusable as-is for a broadcast campaign.

Attempt 1 (failed): Kling 2.6 Edit used to replace weather and lighting across full clips. Fast motion footballers running, kicking returned as mushy, detail-destroyed footage.

Solution Hybrid Pipeline:

1. Kling 2.6 Edit applied to clips with players removed generated clean weather-replaced background plates.
2. Original camera rushes used for player footage.
3. Players rotoscoped and masked from original.
4. Original-quality players composited back onto AI backgrounds.
5. Colour graded and finished to broadcast standard.

Key Lesson

AI video generation cannot handle fast motion reliably (as of early 2026). The hybrid pipeline AI for environments, original footage for talent is the current broadcast-viable approach. Never replace footage containing fast-moving subjects with AI generation in a single pass.

ABC · Agency: The Reactor

Gruen: The Pitch

4-day turnaround · Delivered on deadline · Won The Pitch 2025

03

The brief: produce a finished TVC for Gruen's The Pitch segment on ABC. The agency, The Reactor, delivered rushes on a Thursday evening. Four days to picture lock, grade, and deliver broadcast-ready masters.

Thursday night the files arrived. Friday through Sunday was the edit, working through agency rounds and revisions until picture was locked with approval on Monday. Monday night was the grade, running through to 3AM Tuesday. The ABC delivery deadline was Tuesday morning. It made it.

The spot won The Pitch for that episode.

What this shows

Tight turnarounds are not an exception in this studio, they are part of the service. When a broadcaster deadline is fixed and immovable, the work gets done. Offline edit, colour grade, online finishing and broadcast delivery in four days from rushes to air.

The Nullarbor · Feature Documentary

Documentary AI Pipeline

Currently in post · Full case study on release

04

Feature documentary centred on the 1988 Knowles family UFO incident on the Nullarbor Plain. Director: Stephen Amis. Distributor: Label Distribution.

B-roll generation · A-roll generation · Fully synthetic reenactments of the 1988 Knowles family incident. The most complex AI production challenge of the project: a night-time car chase across the Nullarbor with a pursuing craft, a car becoming airborne, and a family hiding in desert scrub.

Pipeline: Nano Banana Pro + Nano Banana 2 (image generation, start frames, character reference sheets) · Kling 3 · Seedance 2 (video generation). All AI-generated sequences graded to match real location footage and finished to broadcast standard.

Full case study

To be published on or after release of The Nullarbor.

Have a problem to solve?

AI integration, broadcast finishing, or the full pipeline let's talk through your project.

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Whether you're looking for a colourist, an online editor, a full post pipeline, or AI integration into your production I'd love to hear about your project.

  • Location Melbourne, Australia
  • Website tpstudio.com.au
  • Studio Fully calibrated boutique studio
    Home-based, Melbourne
  • Member Colourist Society International (C.S.I.)
  • Services Colour · Online · Mastering
    Offline Editing · AI Production

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