Best Post-Production Studios in Toronto (2026)

Introduction

Toronto has nine full-service post-production studios worth a close look in 2026, each able to take a project from dailies or offline through colour, sound and final deliverables in one building. Most of them finish features and series shot in Ontario for streamers and Canadian broadcasters, and a few focus on commercials and branded content for agencies.

The city’s long-form post business has consolidated. Technicolor Group filed for bankruptcy in 2025, the old Deluxe facility on King Street West now runs as Company 3 Toronto, and Sim sold its post business to Streamland Media back in 2021. On 1 January 2026 Picture Shop folded Formosa Group’s Toronto sound team into its own operation, putting editorial, colour, VFX and sound together under Jane Tattersall. TIFF remains the busiest week of the year for local finishing: Company 3 artists worked on 17 projects in the 2026 festival, and Picture Shop on 12 films in 2025.

Every studio here has an active Toronto-area office in 2026 and offers picture and sound post in-house. Specialist colour, editing, VFX and sound houses have their own Toronto pages. The list runs in no fixed order of merit, since the right fit depends on the format, the delivery spec and the budget.

The best post-production studios in Toronto

1. Picture Shop Toronto

Streamland Media · Toronto · pictureshop.com

Picture Shop is a colour, VFX and finishing company owned by Streamland Media. Its Toronto studio covers dailies, editorial and offline rentals, colour, sound, VFX, and mastering and restoration, with on-site, remote and hybrid sessions. In January 2026 it absorbed Formosa Group’s Toronto sound business and moved into a facility on Adelaide Street East with seven mix stages and an ADR studio.

Managing director Jane Tattersall, an award-winning sound editor, receives the Canadian Society of Cinematographers’ 2026 Bill Hilson Award. The studio worked on 12 films at TIFF 2025, including Roofman, Rental Family and Black Rabbit, and its Toronto colourists’ credits include Fargo, Women Talking and The Chi. Other Picture Shop credits include Megalopolis and Thanksgiving.

2. Company 3 Toronto

Company 3 network · King West · company3.com

Company 3’s Toronto facility on King Street West was known as Deluxe until the business moved under the Company 3 name. It offers dailies, editorial and conform, digital transfer and standards conversion, final colour and finishing, and sound for features, series and advertising, and can connect clients to Company 3 artists in other cities through its virtual services.

Senior colourist Bill Ferwerda is based in Toronto, with credits on The Handmaid’s Tale, Halo, Silo and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future and The Shrouds. The facility’s recent finishing work includes The Handmaid’s Tale season 6, The Testaments and Shoresy, and Company 3 artists worked on 17 projects at TIFF 2026.

3. Urban Post Production

Independent · Leslieville · urbanpost.ca

Urban Post has worked from Toronto’s film studio district since 2000, with sister facilities in Winnipeg and North Bay. The Boston Avenue building is Dolby Vision certified and mixes in Dolby Atmos, with five colour grading suites (including 4K DCI projection and HDR), seven online suites, two ADR rooms and an on-site foley stage.

Services run from dailies through sound editorial, ADR and foley, mixing, VFX, picture finishing and full deliverables, for theatrical features, drama series, documentaries and animation on Netflix, Prime Video, Apple and Hulu. Its teams have won more than three dozen craft awards, among them MPSE, Gemini and Canadian Screen Awards. Orphan Black and Spiral are among the titles on its reel.

4. Rolling Pictures

Independent, partner-owned · Entertainment District · rollingpictures.ca

Rolling Picture Company was set up around 2012 by Mike Forsey and Rick Hannigan, and George Levai, formerly of Optix, joined as managing partner in 2017. It works from 150 John Street, the former NFB building, and runs a second facility, RPC North, in Sault Ste. Marie. The studio is Dolby Vision certified and TPN certified, and has a 7.1 mix theatre with a Christie projector and DCP server.

It handles offline edit suites, online, colour, VFX, sound mixing, ADR and foley, broadcast design and deliverables from UHD and HDR masters to DCPs and closed captioning. Credits span scripted series such as The Porter, Sort Of and Cardinal, features including Funny Boy and In Flames, the documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution and the animated Total Drama Island reboot.

5. Post City Picture & Sound

Independent · Scarborough · postcityps.com

Post City was founded in 2004 and works from Pharmacy Avenue in Scarborough as a full-service film, television and commercial post house. It is IMAX, Dolby and THX certified for theatrical, broadcast and digital releases, with cinema-grade projection and Atmos and IMAX immersive sound.

Projects on its news page include the features Some Other Woman, Daniel’s Gotta Die and For Rent, which screened at Fantasia, and the reality series Bryan’s All In. Less Than Kosher won the audience award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. It suits independent features that need a theatrical mix and picture finish in the same building.

6. PurpleDOG Post

The Post Partners Canada · Mississauga border · purpledogpost.com

PurpleDOG is a boutique picture and sound post house for features and TV series, on the Toronto and Mississauga border about ten minutes from Pearson Airport. It has two DaVinci Resolve colour suites (one for 4K HDR work, one for faster TV and factual jobs), two sound suites with Avid S4 consoles including a Dolby Atmos room, and offline edit suites with producer offices.

Services cover conform, colour and online, sound editorial, foley, ADR and mixing, VFX from on-set supervision to paint-outs, and media services such as dailies, QC, captioning and subtitles. It is part of The Post Partners Canada alongside the LightVAULT media lab and Northern Light & Colour, which handles dailies in North Bay and Sudbury. Pricing is aimed at independent and first-time filmmakers.

7. Eggplant Picture & Sound

Eggplant group · Corktown · eggplantps.com

Eggplant Picture & Sound has offered post-production in downtown Toronto since 1996 and now works from Queen Street East. The Eggplant group acquired the Toronto post house Optix in 2014, and its sister company Eggplant Music & Sound handles music and commercial audio.

The studio offers video and audio post, editorial, colour grading, motion graphics, animation and VFX as a package or as single services. Its work spans film, factual and scripted series, and broadcast and digital advertising, which makes it a practical option for documentary and unscripted producers who want picture and sound finished by one team.

8. Ajax Creative

Independent · Liberty Village · ajaxcreative.com

Ajax Creative is a boutique post-production studio founded in 2016, with its Toronto studio on Atlantic Avenue in Liberty Village and further offices in Vancouver and Ottawa. It covers editorial from dailies to online, VFX, motion graphics and CG, colour, music and sound design, and delivery including QA, subtitling, closed captioning and audio description.

Clients include Air Canada, Arc’teryx, Microsoft, TikTok, Hellmann’s, Porsche, IKEA and Riot Games. The team works in DaVinci Resolve, Houdini, Nuke and Unreal Engine, and it also offers creative development and production for brands that want one partner from concept to delivery.

9. The Pub

Production house · Queen East · thepubproduction.ca

The Pub describes itself as an end-to-end production house and implementation agency, with studios at 111 Queen Street East in Toronto and in Montreal. Its post team covers editorial, motion graphics, colour, VFX and audio editing and mixing.

It also runs commercial production, a print studio and digital services, so it is set up for retail and brand clients that need a high volume of versions and formats. Ask which work is handled in Toronto and which in Montreal before booking.

What to look for in a Toronto post-production studio

Start with the delivery spec. Streamers and broadcasters publish detailed requirements for HDR masters, audio stems, captions and QC, and long-form houses such as Company 3, Picture Shop, Urban Post and Rolling Pictures build their schedules around them. Check for Dolby Vision certification, Atmos mix rooms and, for studio work, TPN security status. Commercial studios such as Ajax Creative and The Pub are set up instead for fast turnarounds and many cut-downs.

Ask what sits under one roof. A full-service house can keep the conform, grade, VFX and mix moving in parallel and resolve problems in a single conversation. Some studios subcontract one discipline, often VFX or the final mix, so confirm which rooms and artists are in-house and who will supervise the whole job.

Plan the pipeline from the shoot. Agree the camera formats, colour space, proxy codec and dailies workflow with the post supervisor before cameras roll, so that the offline, the online and the grade start from the same media. Productions shooting in Northern Ontario can also split work between a local facility, such as Urban Post’s North Bay office or Rolling Pictures’ RPC North, and the Toronto building.

Finally, look at how media and notes move during post. A series can run through hundreds of review cuts, temp mixes and VFX versions across producers, network executives and a remote director. Studios with a clear system for where the latest cut lives, how notes come back and who signs off each version tend to deliver on schedule.

How Fabric helps post-production teams

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Heavy media sits in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams files on demand so they take no local disk space, and large files open without a full download. That suits editors cutting from proxies, a workflow covered in what a proxy workflow is. Uploaded rushes, interviews and temp mixes are transcribed, so search can find a line of dialogue across a series and jump to the timestamp.

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A kanban board can turn a folder into a tracker whose cards are the files themselves, which works for moving episodes or VFX shots through offline, online, grade and mix. The edit, grade and mix stay in Avid, Resolve and Pro Tools; Fabric keeps the material around them organised, with AES-256 encryption for files in transit and at rest.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best post-production studio in Toronto?

It depends on the project. For studio features and streaming series, Company 3 Toronto and Picture Shop Toronto bring network-scale colour, sound and finishing, and Urban Post Production offers a similar range as an independent. For commercials and branded content, Ajax Creative and The Pub handle editorial through delivery in one place.

What happened to Deluxe Toronto and Technicolor?

The former Deluxe facility at 901 King Street West now operates as Company 3 Toronto. Technicolor Group filed for bankruptcy in 2025 and its Toronto operations closed. Formosa Group’s Toronto sound team joined Picture Shop on 1 January 2026.

Should I use a full-service post house or separate specialists?

A full-service house reduces handovers and keeps one supervisor responsible for delivery, which helps on series with tight schedules. Specialists can suit commercials, where agencies often pair an editorial house with a separate colour studio. For specialists, see our lists of the best colour grading studios in Toronto and editing houses in Toronto.

Which Toronto post houses are Dolby Vision certified?

Among the studios on this list, Urban Post Production and Rolling Pictures are Dolby Vision certified facilities, and Post City is IMAX, Dolby and THX certified. Confirm the certification covers the room and the deliverable you need, as requirements differ between theatrical, streaming and broadcast masters.

Can a Toronto post house handle a production shot elsewhere in Ontario?

Yes. Urban Post has a sister facility in North Bay, Rolling Pictures runs RPC North in Sault Ste. Marie, and PurpleDOG’s sister company Northern Light & Colour handles dailies in North Bay and Sudbury, with final finishing done in Toronto.

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