Best Post-Production Companies in Melbourne (2026)

Introduction

Melbourne has seven full-service post-production houses worth a close look in 2026, each able to take a project from offline edit through grade, VFX and final delivery. Most of them work on both long-form drama and advertising, and several run sister studios in Sydney or Brisbane.

The city’s post scene is shaped by its screen industry. VicScreen’s production incentives and Docklands Studios Melbourne keep features and series shooting in Victoria, and that work feeds facilities in Collingwood, Richmond, South Melbourne and Port Melbourne. The Post Lounge, which runs a Collingwood studio, announced a partnership with Company 3 in July 2025. In May 2026 an editor, the colour studio Moodlab and the audio post studio Echo Darling opened a shared post hub in Collingwood aimed at advertising clients, a sign that specialists are clustering together as well as inside larger houses.

Every company here has an active Melbourne studio in 2026 and offers several post disciplines under one roof. Colourists, editors, VFX studios and sound designers who work as specialists appear on separate Fabric lists. The list is unranked, since the right house depends on whether you are finishing a feature, a series or a 30-second spot.

The best post-production companies in Melbourne

1. The Post Lounge

Independent · Collingwood · thepostlounge.com

The Post Lounge is an independently owned Australian post company that has operated since 1979, with studios in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Its services cover dailies, editorial rental, picture post (colour, DI and online), design, VFX, sound post, finishing, mastering and lab services. In 2025 it announced a set of senior appointments as part of a global strategy, followed by a Company 3 partnership and a new Gold Coast studio.

Recent credits highlighted on its site include Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS for Warner Bros., Better Man and Ron Howard’s Eden. It also runs a documentary pitch at AIDC, which gives it a steady pipeline of factual work. The Melbourne studio is a boutique facility, so ask which parts of a large job will run in Collingwood and which in Sydney or Brisbane.

2. Soundfirm

Independent · Port Melbourne · soundfirm.com

Soundfirm describes itself as Australia’s largest independent picture and sound post company, with facilities in Melbourne, Sydney and Beijing. Each city houses picture and sound under one roof, and the service list runs from on-set dailies and data management to offline suite rental, online, colour grading, VFX, ADR, English dubbing and deliverables.

Its long list of feature credits includes Robert Connolly’s The Dry, Fred Schepisi’s Words and Pictures, Kriv Stenders’ Kill Me Three Times and Phillip Noyce’s Rabbit-Proof Fence. The Melbourne team includes a dedicated sound post producer and a senior post and VFX producer, which suits productions that want one point of contact for picture and audio.

3. KOJO

Adelaide-founded group · Richmond · kojo.co

KOJO is an Adelaide-founded screen, experience and sports company that opened a post-production and VFX studio in Richmond in 2023. The Melbourne facility launched with three edit suites, a DI colour grading room, a modular VFX setup that can grow to about ten seats and a full-time motion design team led by director Jack Prenc, with Marty Pepper overseeing post and VFX.

The group has more than 100 DI colour credits, including Talk To Me, The Babadook, Hotel Mumbai and Master Gardener, and the Richmond studio was first used on the ABC and CBS series Gold Diggers. KOJO’s live and sports arm also works on events such as the NFL Melbourne Game and AFL Gather Round, which matters if your project mixes broadcast graphics with screen post.

4. City Post

Australian private company · South Melbourne · citypost.com.au

City Post is a South Melbourne facility on City Road that describes itself as Emmy award-winning and works with clients worldwide on IMAX films, features, TV drama, documentary, animation and reality programmes. It offers offline and remote editing, grading and mastering, VFX, sound post and voice-over recording, finishing, QC and delivery.

Its delivery services are thorough: DCPs, closed captions, audio description and post scripts are handled in house, along with rushes processing and archiving. It also rents office space, so a production office can sit in the same building as the edit. That arrangement suits documentary and factual teams who want the whole post schedule in one place.

5. Blue Post

Australian company · Port Melbourne · bluepost.com.au

Blue Post was formed in 2003 and calls itself Australia’s leading long-form post-production facility, with studios in Port Melbourne and Pyrmont in Sydney. Its service list covers rushes processing and data backup, offline editing facilities and room rental, online editing, colour grading, VFX and QC.

Credits listed on its site include Deadloch, Mr Inbetween, Wentworth, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Heartbreak High, NCIS: Sydney and Shayda. The focus is series and features rather than advertising, and its site does not list audio post, so check where the sound mix will happen when you scope a job.

6. Alt.vfx

Brisbane-founded studio group · South Melbourne · altvfx.com

Alt.vfx started in Brisbane and now runs studios in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles and Tokyo, doing VFX, editorial, colour and virtual production for film, television and commercials. Its Melbourne studio opened in South Melbourne in partnership with the editing company ARC Edit, which brought edit and VFX into the same building for Victorian clients.

Recent work on its site includes Honda Civic “Chase It”, Toyota GR x McDonald’s “Dream Match”, Allianz “Never Gives Up” and KIA “EV Range”, alongside series work on Deadloch Season 2 and Alice in Borderland Season 3. VFX is the core of the business, so it is a good fit for effects-heavy spots that also need an edit and grade.

7. Post Lab IO

Australian private company · Melbourne · postlab.io

Post Lab IO was established in 2016 and works across feature films, documentary and episodic series, with a separate team for commercial and short-form colour. It handles workflow planning, dailies, conform, colour grading, sound and VFX (including dialogue cleaning), titles, captions, audio description, mastering and DCP delivery for cinema, streaming and festivals.

Featured productions include Late Night With The Devil, West of Sunshine, Sunflower and Moja Vesna, with work that has premiered at Venice, Berlin, SXSW, Toronto and Sundance. Clients listed on its site include Netflix, Amazon MGM, Stan, SBS, ABC and Screen Australia. It suits independent feature teams who want a single finishing partner from the first day of the shoot.

What to look for in a Melbourne post-production company

Start with the mix of long-form and advertising work. Several Melbourne houses grew up on drama and features, where schedules run for months and delivery specs come from streamers and broadcasters. Others lean towards commercials, where turnaround is days and the agency sits in the grade. Ask for recent credits in your format.

Check what happens in Melbourne. Many of the companies above run studios in two or more cities, and some services, such as Atmos mixing or large VFX teams, may sit interstate. That can work well, but it affects how often you can attend sessions in person and who your day-to-day contact is.

Look at incentives early. VicScreen’s Victorian Production Fund and post, digital and VFX incentives can change where a production chooses to finish, and the larger houses are used to the paperwork. A post producer who knows the rules will budget the grade and VFX with them in mind.

Finally, ask how media and feedback move between teams. A full-service job passes through offline, conform, grade, VFX and the mix, and each hand-off is a chance for the wrong version to travel. Houses with clear rules on proxies, file naming, picture lock and client review are easier to work with, especially when directors and agency teams are reviewing from another city.

How Fabric helps post-production teams

Fabric gives a post team one workspace for media, project documents and client feedback, with AI search across all of it. Rushes, proxies, EDLs, grading notes and delivery specs can sit in the same shared folders, so editors, colourists and producers work from the latest versions.

Fabric’s cloud drive streams files on demand, so heavy media opens without a full download and takes no local disk space. That fits a proxy workflow, where offline editors cut on lighter files before the online. Search works by meaning across documents, images and transcribed audio and video, and results jump to the right timestamp. Audio and video transcription turns interviews and selects into searchable text, which helps documentary editors find a line without scrubbing through hours of footage.

For client review, any file or folder can be shared through a link that works without sign-up, and clients can leave threaded comments on it. Password protection keeps unreleased cuts private, and link analytics shows when each named recipient opened a link and how long they spent with it. Highlights and comments on PDFs and documents work today through annotations, which is useful for scripts, delivery specs and post schedules. Reviewers can leave timestamped comments on video and draw on any video frame.

There is more on choosing storage for this kind of work in Fabric’s guide to the best cloud storage for video editors.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best post-production company in Melbourne?

There is no single answer, since it depends on the project. For features and series, The Post Lounge, Soundfirm, Blue Post and Post Lab IO all list strong long-form credits. For effects-heavy commercials, Alt.vfx combines VFX with edit and colour in South Melbourne.

What does a full-service post-production house do?

It handles most of the work after the shoot under one roof: offline editing, conform and online, colour grading, VFX, sound post and final delivery. Some also process dailies on set and produce DCPs, captions and audio description.

Where should I go for colour grading only in Melbourne?

A specialist colour studio is often a better fit for a grade-only job. Fabric’s list of the best colour grading studios in Melbourne covers colourists and finishing rooms that work independently of the larger houses.

Do Melbourne post houses work on commercials as well as film and TV?

Many do. Alt.vfx has a large commercial roster, The Post Lounge and KOJO work across advertising and long-form, and Post Lab IO runs a separate team for commercial and short-form colour. Blue Post and City Post lean towards drama, documentary and features.

Can Victorian incentives apply to post-production?

VicScreen runs incentives and funding that can apply to post, digital and VFX work done in Victoria. Eligibility depends on the project and spend, so check current guidelines with VicScreen and your post house before you budget.

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