Best Post-Production Companies in Vancouver (2026)

Introduction

The seven Vancouver post-production companies below range from the local arms of Hollywood post groups to independent boutiques that keep colour, sound and finishing under one roof. Most of their work comes from the episodic, feature and TV movie productions that shoot in British Columbia for US studios and streamers.

The local market has shifted over the past few years. Picture Shop, part of Streamland Media, bought the long-running Finalé Post in 2019 and now runs its Vancouver studios from Columbia Street and 8th Avenue. MTI Film and ColorTime opened Flow Post Partners in East Vancouver in 2024, starting with dailies for CBS’s Watson. Production volumes have been less predictable since the 2023 strikes, so houses with a mix of service-production and Canadian work tend to be the steadier partners.

Every company here has a working Vancouver facility in 2026 (Greater Vancouver counts). We looked for full-service houses that can take a show from dailies to final delivery, and left most single-discipline colour, editing, VFX and sound studios to their own lists. The order is not a ranking.

The best post-production companies in Vancouver

1. Picture Shop Vancouver

Streamland Media · Vancouver · pictureshop.com

Picture Shop is the picture division of Streamland Media, and its Vancouver operation grew out of Finalé Post, a local facility founded by Don Thompson in 1988 and acquired by Picture Shop in 2019. Finalé’s credits at the time included iZombie, Snowpiercer and The Magicians. Picture Shop staff and projects were honoured at the 2026 CSC Awards.

The Vancouver studios on Columbia Street and 8th Avenue cover dailies (with grading rooms and secure drop-off lockers), Avid editorial suites, colour in DaVinci Resolve and near-set VFX support. Local credits listed by the company include Monster High, Buddy Games 2 and Two Sentence Horror Stories. Senior colourist Claudio Sepulveda, whose credits include Virgin River and Firefly Lane, joined the Vancouver roster in 2022.

2. Company 3 Vancouver

Company 3 Studios · Mount Pleasant · company3.com

Company 3 is one of the larger post groups in film and television, with main studios in Los Angeles, New York, London, Toronto, Atlanta and Vancouver. The Vancouver studio sits at 50 West 2nd Avenue, near the Olympic Village end of Mount Pleasant.

Across the group, services run from dailies and editorial (including conform) through picture finishing, final colour, sound and commercial finishing. Company 3 also recruits for its Curated VFX team in Vancouver, which makes it a reasonable choice for a series that wants picture finishing and additional effects handled by one supplier. Confirm which services are delivered locally and which run from other Company 3 sites.

3. Omnifilm Post

Omnifilm Entertainment · East Vancouver · omnifilm.com

Omnifilm Post is the boutique picture post studio of Omnifilm Entertainment, the Vancouver producer and distributor. It works on Omnifilm’s own productions and takes in external projects, from a facility on Clark Drive that is separate from the company’s Water Street office.

Services cover dailies (look development, sound sync and dailies deliverables), offline rentals in suite or remote on Avid, Premiere or Resolve, scripted and unscripted editorial with in-house post supervision, and 4K conform and colour suites for HDR, SDR and HD. The company lists broadcasters and streamers it has delivered for, including CBC, Netflix, National Geographic and History. It suits unscripted and documentary series in particular.

4. Elemental Post

Independent · Railtown · elementalpost.com

Elemental Post is an independent boutique led by sound designer and post supervisor Matt Drake and senior colourist Dave Tomiak, who set it up during the pandemic after years of freelancing. It opened its Railtown studio with Skylab, a long-standing Vancouver screening and edit facility, in 2021, and Playback described it as one of the few places in the city offering colour, sound and finishing under one roof.

The studio has a 4K laser projection theatre, three colour suites, two sound stages, and suites for finishing, titling and dailies, with Atmos mixing, ADR and Foley on the sound side. Featured work includes Riceboy Sleeps (colour, sound and finishing), Lucky Lu, Eternity, Clown in a Cornfield and the sound on The Wedding Banquet. It is a strong fit for independent features and documentaries that want one team from grade to final mix.

5. Flow Post Partners

MTI Film and ColorTime · East Vancouver · flowpostpartners.com

Flow is a joint venture between two Hollywood post companies, MTI Film and ColorTime, launched in Vancouver in August 2024. The partners set it up so that US series shooting in British Columbia could keep dailies and finishing in the province, staffed by Canadian crews, and qualify for local tax credits.

Its first shows were CBS’s Watson and the Peacock comedy Laid. The studio on East 6th Avenue now offers dailies, editorial rentals and rooms, and final colour and finishing for episodic series, TV movies, unscripted shows and features. It is one of the newer facilities here, so ask for recent Vancouver credits by title.

6. RAW Post Production

Raw Camera Company · Burnaby · rawcamera.com

RAW Post Production is the post arm of Raw Camera Company, a Canadian camera rental group with locations in Burnaby, Regina, Winnipeg and Montréal. The Burnaby facility focuses on colour and finishing for streaming, television and theatrical release, with dailies, secure media handling and LTO archive delivery alongside.

Feature credits include Freaks (Netflix), Get Fast (Lionsgate), Dead Rising: Watchtower (Legendary), Thunderbird and Beehive (CBC), and it has graded commercials for Outdoor Research, Volvo and G-Fuel. VFX work is kept modest in house and placed with partners for larger shows. Productions that rent cameras from Raw can keep camera, dailies and finishing with one supplier.

7. Sharpe Sound Studios

Independent · North Vancouver · sharpesound.com

Sharpe Sound Studios is an audio post facility on Brooksbank Avenue in North Vancouver, close to the North Shore’s sound stages. It handles mixing, ADR and sound editorial for film and television, and sponsors the Vancouver Post Alliance.

Clients shown by the studio include Disney, ABC, Hallmark and BRON. Sharpe works on sound only, so it pairs naturally with one of the picture houses above when a production wants to split picture and sound between two specialists.

What to look for in a Vancouver post-production company

Start with what the show needs from dailies onward. Much of Vancouver’s post work is for US series, which need near-set dailies, editorial rooms for the length of the edit, and finishing to studio specifications. Some of the houses above handle every stage, while others concentrate on picture or sound, so check which parts of your workflow will stay under one roof.

Ask where the work will be done. Several of these companies belong to groups with studios in Los Angeles, Toronto and elsewhere, and some services may run remotely from another site. That affects who is in the room for a review session, and it can matter for British Columbia tax credits, which depend on where the work is done and by whom. Your production accountant should confirm eligibility for your own show.

Look at the people as well as the rooms. Credits often follow individual colourists, editors and mixers rather than facilities, and Vancouver’s post crews move between houses as production volumes rise and fall. Ask who will grade or mix your project, and look at their recent work.

Finally, settle how media and feedback will move. A season of dailies can run to many terabytes, and producers, executives and directors often sit in different cities. Agree on how cuts and grades are shared, how notes are gathered against timecode, and how each round of changes is signed off, before the first day of photography.

How Fabric helps post-production teams

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Review files and project documents live in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams files on demand so they take no local disk space, and heavy video files open without a full download. That helps with a proxy workflow, where lightweight files travel and the originals stay on the facility’s storage. Transcription makes uploaded video and audio searchable, and search jumps to the timestamp where a line was spoken.

For notes, a team can share a cut, a still or a mix with the client as a commenter, and the shared link works without sign-up. With annotations, commenters leave timestamped comments on video and audio, draw on a video frame to point at a problem, or draw on an image and attach a comment to it. The editor or colourist marks each comment completed as it is addressed, so the notes work as a checklist for the next version. There is more on this in how to mark client feedback as done.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best post-production company in Vancouver?

It depends on the project. For studio episodic work that needs dailies through final colour, Picture Shop Vancouver, Company 3 Vancouver and Flow Post Partners are built around that model. For independent features that want colour, sound and finishing from one team, Elemental Post is a strong option.

What happened to Finalé Post in Vancouver?

Picture Shop, the picture division of Streamland Media, acquired Finalé Post in 2019. Its Vancouver dailies, editorial and finishing business now operates as part of Picture Shop Vancouver.

Which Vancouver post houses handle both picture and sound?

Elemental Post offers colour, finishing and a full sound department in its Railtown studio. Company 3 lists sound among its group services. Other houses on this list focus on picture and work with audio specialists such as Sharpe Sound Studios in North Vancouver.

Do Vancouver post-production companies work on commercials?

Some do. RAW Post Production has graded commercials for Outdoor Research and Volvo, and Company 3 offers commercial finishing as a group. Most of the houses here are geared to long-form television and features, and agencies often go to dedicated editing and colour studios for spots, which are covered in our list of colour grading studios in Vancouver.

How do I choose between a large post group and a Vancouver boutique?

Large groups bring depth of staff, studio-approved security and sites in other cities, which helps on multi-season series. Boutiques tend to give more senior attention and closer contact with the colourist or mixer. Compare recent credits at your budget level and ask who will be assigned to your project.

Related lists

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