Joint with Bill Collis (The Foundry). The need for the design of new image manipulation tools for both consumer and professional postproduction has substantially widened the breath of research in image/video/vision processing. While machine vision tools have been used successfully by industry for many years, it is only with the success of Digital Television and Digital Media Streaming that more sophisticated moving image processing has shown mainstream success in the worldwide community. This talk tries to chart a course showing how tools in restoration that have been considered for over a decade now, have migrated into the post-production community where they have metamorphosed into other applications. It highlights some emerging trends and tries to explore why researchers and post-production industrialists have become friends.