August 2014
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TVBEurope 15 IT Broadcast Workflow 2014
IT Broadcast Workflow 2014 The dream becomes reality
Delegates take their seats at BAFTA for the sixth IT Broadcast Workflow
This year’s IT Broadcast Workflow conference looked at some long-standing issues in file-based production and discovered that the industry is farther along in resolving them than expected. Neal Romanek and Melanie Dayasena-Lowe sum up the day’s discussions
building a new facility or you’re upgrading an existing facility, the first thing you’re going to do is put in IT-based workflows,” Bancroft said. “There are lots of examples we can look at now, whereas five years ago there were only a few in Europe. Now, just about every project involves a degree of file-based workflows.”
sponsored by Cinegy, about BBC Northern Ireland’s (BBC NI) new, entirely software- based broadcast facility. BBC Northern Ireland replaced its tape-based system in 2008, using Cinegy systems. Cinegy’s battle cry of “SDI must die” was the ethos driving the upgrade.
“The expertise is no longer within the walls of the BBC” Mervyn Middleby, BBC NI
One observation that was returned to by multiple speakers was the idea that broadcast had been increasingly trying to understand the IT world, but that the IT world had not necessarily made any moves toward understanding broadcast.
JEREMY BANCROFT, director of Media Asset Capital, has hosted every IT Broadcast Workflow conference for the past five years. To see how far
the industry has come in that time, he reviewed the notes from his very first ITBW and discovered that the topics were startlingly similar to 2014’s.
The big difference was that the point of view had moved from aspiration to practicality. “I’m glad to see that after those five years, the norm is, if you’re
Best of the BBC
The opening session, ‘Lifecycles of a software-based TV station’ was a case study,
With the new facility, BBC NI had to increase its storage beyond what it had originally budgeted for. “It’s not that people got the maths fundamentally wrong,” said Cinegy’s Lewis Kirkaldie, “It’s that when people get given new technologies, they just use it differently. The assumptions and models they built on didn’t take into account the fact that Belfast suddenly had a post
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