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said Kalanchekaev, “because it was really high-scale and a lot of people were working for us. Coordination between those parties is a really big challenge.”
Your future in the cloud A presentation called ‘The art of enterprise asset platforms’ was presented by Mark Keller, CTO of Hogarth Worldwide. Keller showed how ZONZA, a cloud- based digital asset management system, was used for managing assets for TV advertising. ZONZA operates in a Linux environment on Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology. Keller said that Hogarth found the Azure platform’s security and global reach more attractive than that of its competitors.
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Cinegy and BBC Northern Ireland discuss the broadcaster’s new and entirely software-based broadcast facility
production facility available quite superior to the rest of the BBC, and they suddenly won more commissions. And winning more commissions subsequently meant they needed more storage.” “The expertise is no longer within the walls of the BBC,” said Mervyn Middleby, BBC NI’s head of tech and operations. “We’re looking for experts in the industry now. I find good experts in Cinegy that help us, and hopefully we’ll be able to keep working forward to where we want to go.”
QC-ing the QC
Next up, DPP, the Digital Production Partnership, gave an update on its activities in 2014, presented by DPP technical standards lead Kevin Burrows. DPP has established 1 October as the date by which UK broadcasters will move to file-based programme delivery. Burrows gave an overview of the DPP’s history as well as its most recent activities. In addition to shepherding the move to file-based delivery in the UK and supporting the AS-11 format delivery standard,
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free to choose what language they want on their products, but at least we can get a standardised meaning.” The three categories for the new rules will be ‘absolute
“We have a lot of people creating content now, hoping they can send the one file absolutely everywhere. And in reality, they can’t”
Having a software-based studio means that BBC NI can avoid having to commit to proprietary hardware with a fixed asset lifecycle and can upgrade whenever it needs to, using off- the-shelf hardware.
BBC Northern Ireland was the last BBC centre to move away from linear editing and newsroom production, but with the digital upgrade, Middleby believes, “We have the most advanced workflow in the BBC.”
DPP has, in partnership with the EBU, been developing a minimum set of automated QC tests and tolerances.
“In effect, it’s about defining templates, which contain the actual parameters with the allowable tolerances,” said Burrows. “It’s trying to formalise what people call different things. If you go to five different QC devices, the description of a measurement or tolerance might be something different in each case. People are
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requirements’, ‘editorial warnings’, and ‘technical warnings’. Under these categories, DPP has defined roughly 40 different QC parameters.
HD at RT
AmberFin sponsored a presentation by Russian systems integrator OKNO-TV on the new HD facility for news channel RT (Russia Today). The scale of the build was impressive, providing an infrastructure to support 2,000 users.
Vizrt provided enterprise-wide graphics solutions and Dalet was brought in for media management and archive. Fibre channel network for the file system and high resolution storage was provided by Cisco. The facility was all-encompassing enough to retain old favourites: the RT design department insisted on keeping Final Cut Pro 7, although RT’s main workhorse editor is Adobe Premiere. RT was proud of the fact that its switch to HD was seamless and live, with an on-camera presenter literally walking off the SD set and onto the HD set during broadcast. OKNO-TV’s Mike Kalanchekaev said that the migration of RT’s sizeable staff to an entirely revamped studio was not much of a problem in terms of operations. The staff already had a great deal of input into which systems would be incorporated. “The most complicated stuff was the managing of the subcontractors,”
Keller asked the delegates in the audience: “How many people think your stuff will be in the public cloud in the next five years?” In a room full of 200 people, only half a dozen hands went up. Surprised, Keller quipped, “Let’s do this again in five years’ time and see what happens.”
Keller was doubtful about the future of in-house storage: “I think anyone who thinks they can carry on buying disks to manage all the stuff they need going forwards into the future might have to have a really big cheque book.” Keller’s assertion that cloud-based asset management systems would be the future of broadcast was met with lots of questions from the delegates, and some scepticism from those who thought cloud-based storage for big productions was not as financially viable as Keller made it out to be. The future will tell.
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