22 TVBEurope
www.tvbeurope.com August 2013
of a tape from library to transmission is long — very long. Over and over, for all the thousands of tapes it takes to keep us on the air 52 weeks of the year. Time to close the door on all of this…” At which point Donoghue told the BAFTA audience, “and as Father Dougal might say, “that’s mad Ted, mad, mad! “So where does FAST sit?”
he asked. “Right in the middle. We’re trying to transition away from tape — and even where we do have tape with some acquired programmes or existing library,
storage network (Harmonic Omneon), post production (Avid Interplay) and subtitling (Softel). TMD also offers a configurable workflow engine. Mediaflex contains an element called Mediaflex CI (content intelligence) which provides intelligent process automation and business analytics together with workflow development tools. This analytics means workflows can incorporate intelligent decision- making according to defined rules, reducing the need for manual intervention.
excellent Flexicart control system for ingest. An additional thing we really liked was the workflow engine and the fact that they can do compliance viewing in either high res or low res. “We estimate that the net cost
Myles Donoghue: “We put in the development and training system for about 10% of the cost of the main system and were able to prove all of the interfaces”
“The project probably slipped about five weeks in acceptance testing but it was well worthwhile. We found some problems and were able to solve them before it went live”
Myles Donoghue, RTE
we’re ingesting into FAST and then playing out from file.” TMD’s Mediaflex interfaces
to RTÉ’s existing infrastructure including channel management (Pilat IBMS), playout automation (Snell Morpheus),
“We have the capability to send things to our online service, and we can send files in and out of Avid. When a file is ready for broadcast, Mediaflex tells IBMS ‘here’s the metadata about it’ and IBMS puts it on a schedule. At the same time
Mediaflex tells Morpheus, ‘this file will sit here in the long term storage.’ So when the schedule goes down to Morpheus, Morpheus says ‘Ah, I know about that file’ and it picks up the file from the long term storage and
puts it on the playout server and it plays out. When it’s done it will remove the file from the playout server but it won’t remove it from the long term storage so it can be played out again. “Why did we choose
Mediaflex?” asked Donoghue. “The main reason was because of its proven interface. This has been integrated with IBMS Version 4.18, which we’re using. It’s been integrated with Morpheus at Turner and Avid at Discovery. Also it has an
saving and avoidance per year is about €400k,” he said. “In terms of the business, it’s helping our transition to HD: if we were to introduce HD without going to a file-based workflow, we would have to populate the whole of RTE with loads of HDCAMS. It would cost a lot of money. “Early on we installed a
development and training system, which is a scaled down version of the main system,” said Donoghue. “Essentially it’s exactly the same as the main system except it has only six workstations. We didn’t build it with a long term store, and there’s a much smaller work in progress storage system. “But it allowed us to develop
the workflows and see what the gaps were in the system so we could refine requirements.
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