78 Friday 13.09.13 theibcdaily In Brief
German upgrades to parliament TV The Deutscher Bundestag is moving to HD, with the installation of HD cameras and equipment in its plenary hall and one control room by BTS Broadcast Technology Solutions, which installed all the TV equipment for the parliament in 2001. The new installation includes eight Grass Valley LDX cameras with 40x Fujinon lenses and eight camera control units (XCUs) with OCPs and MCPs, a transmission system via dark fibre, a Grass Valley Kayak-HD mixer and a multiviewer system. Two HD character generators and two Nevion HD routers have also been integrated. Both the existing Radamec camera robotic system and the Jupiter control system have been adapted to the new technology. New HD monitors and a Tektronix waveform monitor complete the upgrade. OE115
Delete your clutter Opinion
Ben Miles, business development manager Marquis Broadcast, with some practical advice on media
File-based workflows promised many benefits. However, the move to digital has brought its own set of issues. For example: these days you can carry 10 hours of media in your back pocket. The sheer volume of content now needs technological solutions to manage it, particularly due to the cost of edit storage. Therefore the question: ‘why is my edit storage always full and what can I do about it?’ is one which many editors face. Edit storage can become full
for many reasons – stalled projects, finished projects, leftover render files, duplicate files and media files no longer used by any online project. Editors need a solution where projects and media can be analysed by size, project, location, age, duplicated or orphaned files. They need to create
snapshots of projects to safeguard progress. Projects
Ben Miles: ‘Edit storage can become full for many reasons’
need to be easily moved between tiers of storage or to different locations, while still maintaining a usable and easily accessible format for future retrieval and use. Customer demand has led
us to develop a specific product to address these needs. Project Parking analyses all projects and media across all workspaces and
allows that analysis to be viewed in the UI. Users can then rank projects in the most appropriate way. This may be in order of total file size, number of files associated with a project, which workspaces the media is on, or whether media is off-line. The location of any duplicate files can also be identified, as can any orphaned media not associated with any projects. Stalled projects can then be
taken offline to free up space. Archived projects can be moved through the cloud and around the world. A project is transferred with
all its media to any storage so that it can be restored to a new facility, workstation or laptop and edited immediately. Orphan and duplicate media files can be managed by moving them off-line and so freeing up the edit storage. Often media gets put in the wrong location and this is
difficult to find or move later on. Project Transfer functionality can be used to ensure that all the media for a project is in a particular media workspace. Media that has ended up in several different places can be collected and put back in one location, so it can be edited by another workstation in the future or transferred to a local disk for editing off-site – or to a new removable disk for transportation to a new facility. Retrieval, bringing a project back from deep storage or just from a weekend’s editing at home, can also easily be achieved. Editors can now use these
tools to find out what is using up space on their Avid edit storage through a complete storage and project analysis, and then delete the clutter and archive storage intensive projects and all their media elsewhere. 2.A58
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