June 2012
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“Creative innovation should be enabled by technology, not achieved despite it” – Mark Harrison, BBC
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Reluctant to Bloodless: new DPP workflow guide
Tapeless Production By Jake Young& Fergal Ringrose
Better battery, same price: THE NEWPAG L96e Li-Ion battery is an enhanced version of the company’s L95e, and a replacement for it. The L96e offers a superior performance for the same price as the L95e. It provides a maximum continuous output of 8A, compared to the L95e’s 7A, and performs better at low temperatures. The V-Mount model is compatible with multiple viewfinder data systems for displaying capacity in the viewfinder, such as those used by Sony and Red One cameras. It adjusts automatically to each system. In addition, the L96e features a built-in run-time and capacity indicator. The 14.8V 6.5Ah, 96 watt-hour pack is designed for broadcast ENG and professional video production. It incorporates high-capacity, long- life, premium quality Li-Ion cells, and is available in V-Mount and PAGlok models.
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THE DIGITAL Production Partnership (DPP) has released a key industry report, ‘The Bloodless Revolution: A Guide to Smoother Digital Workflows in Television.’ The report, prepared by industry analysts Mediasmiths International, is the first published guidance on digital workflows to be issued on behalf of ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC. It seeks to help producers and suppliers achieve a smoother transition to fully digital production. The new guide follows the
publication of the DPP’s report on breaking down the barriers to digital production ‘The Reluctant Revolution’, September 2011. One of the claims made in the first report was that the pace of change in the industry was held back by a lack of commonly agreed ways of working. It observed that greater guidance is needed if the industry is to complete its move from tape-based to file- based production. The DPP’s new report now
provides such guidance. It sets out to identify the smoothest, most efficient digital workflows for
World’s smallest OB vehicle? KiBAN International, a global e-learning company, has used Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Television Studio, HyperDeck Studio Pro and SmartView Duo to form the video backbone of one of the world’s smallest HD broadcasting cars, named the Panda Bird, writes Fergal Ringrose. The vehicle carries a full array of switching, monitoring and SSD
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1-6 News & Analysis World’s smallest OB vehicle Panda Bird from KiBAN International is built with Blackmagic Design equipment 3
8 The Business Case On a wave of Emotion MC Patel returns with Emotion Systems following previous guises with Discreet, Alpha Image and Quantel — this time with audio analysis software for post production workflows, writes Dick Hobbs 8
10 News & Analysis Emerging into the future Last month SMPTE and EBU combined to gather an influential group to make sense of emerging technologies. Dick Hobbs reports from the Geneva forum
use with currently available technology, while providing sufficient background information to help maintain a view of the wider production landscape. It also identifies opportunities for collaboration, cost saving, and better creative outcomes. Helen Stevens, DPP chair, said, “For production companies, a well thought through end-to-end file-based workflow can reduce costs and timescales and give creative staff more control of the process. This new guide offers very clear signposts for programme makers to more easily plan and complete productions in an effective and efficient way.”
recording, and was shown to the public for the first time at the recent Educational IT Solution Expo (EDIX) in Tokyo. The Panda Bird is built around a Honda Gyro Canopy trike. Through the ATEM Television Studio’s built in H.264 encoder and broadcast quality switching capabilities, the trike can offer multi camera production and broadcast encoding for internet streaming. Cameras are connected wirelessly
Mark Harrison, DPP lead for
Best Practice Production [Ed Note: See also April TVBEurope page 15], added, “In the UK broadcast industry we take huge creative risks – and that is what makes British television punch well above its weight. But when it comes to changing our production processes we are much more cautious. The DPP would like to think this report gives producers the confidence to get the best out of digital. After all, creative innovation should be enabled by technology – not achieved despite it.” www.digitalproductionpartnership.
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to the ATEM Television Studio, with H.264 files encoded using ATEM Television streamed live using Ustream. KiBAN added HyperDeck Studio for a rack mount SSD-based deck with dual slots for infinite recording of DNxHD or ProRes. “We could not have done this without Blackmagic Design,” said Masahiro Nishimura, CEO of KiBAN International.
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12-18 Archiving & Storage Archiving on a budget
For small production companies and individual productions, an archive is often just a load of hard drives in a drawer but what’s the alternative? David Fox finds out
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20-25 The Workflow Island-hopping becomes reality Mike Clark reports on the key players involved in the production of an Italian reality TV show following a group of celebrities abandoned on deserted Honduras islands
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28-32 Roundtable: OB Audio Mix Sound OB thinking
In our second roundtable discussion, Philip Stevens poses questions to seven manufacturers of OB audio mixing equipment
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34-48 NAB Wrap-Up Hear fromTVBEurope’s NAB reporting team on the main themes and major product launches across broadcast infrastructure, 3D, 4K, audio and post production
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50 TVBEurope’s News Review A look back at the month’s most interesting stories from the broadcast technology arena 50
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