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TVBEurope 75 The Workflow


workstation on the network can do this without special fibre adapters, licences or drivers. This makes life very simple.” All the data is synchronised


daily between True North’s sites on either side of the Pennines, making cross-country collaborative editing a reality. Now offline edits produced in Manchester can be conformed and onlined in Leeds without difficulty. There is also a second important benefit: “It gives us resilience. If something did go wrong at Leeds or Manchester, we can switch to the other location because all the data is mirrored,” explains Allen. True North is the “fastest-


growing indie outside London”, according to the Broadcast Indie Survey for 2013, with revenues up 65% over the past year. Its credits include BBC 1’s Animal Frontline, Channel 4’s Compare Your Life, National Geographic’s Bloody Tales, CBBC’s Dick and Dom Go Wild and MTV’s The Valleys, and Lurcuck expects the company to continue growing strongly.


True blood: The Bloody history of Europe in all its gory detail for National Geographic He is also planning for the


arrival of 4K. “We will need more and more capacity and don’t want to have to re-engineer our infrastructure or re-build our storage arrays every time. GB Labs has extension modules that allow us to do just that with virtually no downtime.”


The network storage upgrade


was just the start of updating the facility’s systems. As well as investigating digital asset management systems, True North has invested in new production equipment to shoot further episodes of the constructed reality show,


The Valleys, for MTV. The series is recorded predominantly at indoor locations, and follows the antics of a group of Welsh youngsters, both day and night. As True North prepared to shoot the new series, it undertook a review of its workflows and production technology.


NEWS INBRIEF


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BBC Worldwide selects facilities


BBC Worldwide has appointed four facility houses to provide content management and distribution services for its supply chain, following a recent procurement process. The facility houses appointed are BBC Studios and Post Production, JCA, Loft London and Technicolor. The appointed companies will provide tape-based services to duplicate and distribute content to international broadcasters. www.bbcworldwide.com


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