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MPG, engineers ride the Broadcast Wave
Barry Glint “very pleased” with industry support for Broadcast WAV event By Jon Chapple
THE MUSIC Producers Guild (MPG) on 9 April hosted an event which invited mastering engineers to learn about Broadcast WAV.
As the industry prepares to adopt the Broadcast WAV file format (BWF) as the best means of embedding ISRC data into future recordings, the MPG said the event “highlight[ed] the
UNITED KINGDOM Studer and Artel interface for audio data carriage By Kevin Hilton
A NEW technical alliance between Harman group member Studer and Artel Video Systems sees the deployment of the console company’s A-Link audio data streaming technology on the IP, direct fibre and managed optical networks developer’s modular DigiLink video carrier system. A-Link is part of the Vista X digital mixing desk and uses 3G video interfacing to create an audio interface that can transmit 1536 32-bit channels on
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Speakers from Dolby and Cisco confirmed for Beyond HD Masters
By Jon Chapple
SPEAKERS FROM Cisco and Dolby have been confirmed for the Beyond HD Masters 2014 programme. This year’s conference returns to Bafta in London on 3 June.
Keynote speaker Simon Parnall is a Cisco Distinguished
Engineer, leading research and collaborative activities and acting in a “thought-leadership capacity” both inside and outside the company. Joining as a panellist is Roland Vlaicu, a senior director at Dolby Laboratories. Vlaicu has worked with Dolby since 2000 and helped lead
the successful launch of the Dolby E format, which earned a Primetime Emmy Award in 2005. Prior to joining Dolby, he helped implement Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound technology at ProSieben Television, Germany’s second-largest commercial broadcaster, where he worked
one cable. DigiLink is designed for wide area networking of video and associated data over fibre and IP.
Andrew Hills: “This is significant”
Explaining what this means for Studer users and audio in general, Studer product director Andrew Hills, says, “It shows that our A-Link high capacity audio interface is directly compatible with video transport systems. The ability to carry 1,536 channels of audio over standard video infrastructure is highly significant.” Studer has an existing networking relationship with
Riedel through the MediorNet system but Hills says the agreement with Artel will not affect that: “Our collaboration with Riedel uses the MediorNet system as not only a distribution system but also as a router able to split up the A-Link audio down to mono channels. Artel is a long distance carrier for the provision of links between cities tens if not hundreds of kilometres apart. It does not have individual audio channel routing capability, which is normally not necessary as the desks have large routers built in
in the distribution networks department and was a member of the CTO’s office. Other speakers include Richard Mills, chief technical officer at Onsight; former research associate at the Institute of Radio Technology, Stephan Heimbecher; and the BBC’s Andy Quested. Highlights of the 2014 show include the ‘next-generation audio’ session, which discusses “the impact of better audio on the in-home viewing experience, explain[s] what is possible in next generation home audio and outline[s] what steps broadcasters are taking – or
anyway. We do not see these as competing systems.” The interface is already available as, Hills explains, “there was no development work required – it is just plug and play”. He adds that there are plans for long distance trials on the US Eastern seaboard “in the next month or so”. There is also an agreement with router manufacturer Evertz to incorporate A-Link audio interfaces into its video products.
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importance of this initiative and [gave] recording professionals the information they need to make it a success.” It was sponsored DAW manufacturers MAGIX Sequoia, Merging and Prism Sound, all of whom recently announced their support for the initiative by backing file exchange between their systems.
Alchemy Mastering’s Barry Grint headed the MPG’s
campaign to get Broadcast WAV accepted – in place of ordinary WAV files, which don’t contain a method for embedding ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) information – by the music industry. He tells PSNEurope: “I am very pleased with the support this event has received – not only by the number of mastering engineers who attended, but also internationally via our live
video stream. There have been hundreds of unique viewings via the link on the MPG website and 40 simultaneous during the event.
“The next stage is for the BPI and AIM to notify their membership to switch to Broadcast WAV.”
ISRCs, the internationally recognised system for identifying sound and music
Barry Grint welcomes guests to the special MPG event
video recordings, are uniquely allocated to every song and music video recorded and registered with royalty payment agencies, ensuring the copyright holder is always properly remunerated for their work. Broadcast WAV – which can carry ISRC information – was created by the European Broadcasting Union in 1997.
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Cisco’s Simon Parnall
should be taking – to further advance this crucial and much- neglected area”.
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