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“Virtualisation is forcing some very real changes on us. From my viewpoint at Disney it means many things,” said Todd Livdahl, director of production technology at Walt Disney Studios. “We can be shooting in Hollywood or on location yet sending material to Ireland for a sound mix, or using technology to create a very sophisticated pre-film preview that brings the old storyboard process up to date, and allows the director a much tighter control of his vision, and this is very cost- effective. When the production is ready to roll and the expensive
time-zones yet maintaining a genuine creative process. “We have the additional benefit of being a smaller ‘start-up’ within a much larger organisation, but the cloud means it is quite easy to change processes and without a legacy from the hardware- dependent world.”
crew and talent get to the set it can be a much more efficient process.
His comments came from
IBC’s ‘Movie-making in the matrix’ conference session. For
Sony’s Media Cloud Services division, Naomi Climer said it also meant virtual team-working, allowing greater collaboration from people working around the world and in different
Gearhouse buys 50 Ultra HD cameras Hitachi By David Fox
Gearhouse has bought the entire first production run of Hitachi’s newly announced SK-UHD4000 Ultra HD camera, with plans to offer them for use on the Asian Football Championships in Australia in January. The 50 cameras will go to equip two UHD OB trucks, in
the US and Australia, with the remaining 20, or so, cameras being held in the UK for use by OB companies looking to upgrade their HD trucks who want to migrate to UHD, but not yet. “We think this camera is a great way of managing the transition to 4K,” said Adrian Young, commercial director, Gravity Media, parent company of Gearhouse Broadcast. Gearhouse has been
working closely with Hitachi
for two years, and hopes to get the first delivery of the camera by the end of December so it can offer them to Asian broadcasters for the football. “The beauty of their 4K camera is that it operates, to all intents and purposes, like their HD cameras, so it needs no adaption,” said Young. “As it can be used as an HD or 4K camera, it gives us great flexibility.” Because the camera uses 2/3-inch
Hitachi technical director Richard Harvey (left) with Adrian Young and the new SK-UHD4000 camera
sensors, it can be used with Gearhouse’s existing stock of Canon lenses. 11.D39
Climer added that her facility was seeing productions ranging from Hollywood blockbusters to much smaller, individual users. “And it is these smaller operators who are faster to adopt the new methodologies. It seems like quite a different pace and hunger from these new players. The big studios are testing and piloting, but I’d say they’re not pushing the boundaries just yet.”
Christian G Fritsch: “We help operators deliver TV services to places where
the infrastructure is non-existent”
Sat DTH ecosystem Telekom Austria Group
By Monica Heck
A satellite DTH ecosystem is on show at the Telekom Austria Group (TAG) stand during IBC, focused on helping service providers with limited fixed infrastructure to expand their footprint. Operating companies in eight countries, including Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia, with an addressable market of 41 million inhabitants, TAG is helping companies extend their reach from the provision of mobile and broadband services to the delivery of TV services. The Direct2home and
Direct2home White Label satellite- based TV services, on show at the stand, enable operators, either local or TAG-owned such as A1 and blizoo, to start offering those services. 14.C16
Conference Highlights Today at IBC
What caught my eye: Blue sky thinking 08:15, E102
IBC Big Screen Keynote: An odyssey of cinematic innovation 09:30, Auditorium, FREE SESSION
Tanja Hüther, head of business development at Siemens Convergence Creators
Swipe for OTT and IPTV Siemens By Monica Heck
OTT SWIPE UX as a Service has been launched at IBC, allowing operators to add a customer ‘swipe’ function to their existing OTT and IPTV video platforms. The cloud-based service offering allows viewers to move content from one device to another. “Interest has been high and we expect orders soon,” explained Markus Placho, vice president of OTT SWIPE at Siemens Convergence Creators.
“Many of our customers already have video platforms, either IPTV or OTT and are delighted they can now access this functionality. It already exists as part of our own basic OTT platform offering, and it can now be integrated into other systems.” The new product supports a variety of brands, both on the mobile device and TV front. “We also have a patented automatic pairing process that automatically identifies what TV you are standing in front of,” added Placho. 14.A30
Dynamic edits on the fly: One of the highlights in the IBC Future Zone, BBC R&D’s Object Based Broadcasting Initiative, is the rich result of three years of development work. “OBB is a concept of delivering broadcast programmes as component parts. With those we provide additional metadata that describes the parts and how they can be put together,” said Chris Pike, BBC R&D senior scientist – audio (pictured). “In doing that we are able to adapt things to adjust the experience for the audience, and that has to do with things like personal experience in the sense of taste and need,” he added. “It also allows for a more rich interactive experience.” This kit without glue requires a rendering process on the audience side. The demos are on computers and tablets delivered through a web browser. The BBC team has more radio than TV examples at the moment because processing audio is simpler in a web browser currently. “In the future we hope that broadcast systems and standards can support this kind of interactive object-based representation of content,” said Pike. “We have got some more advanced and sophisticated uses of this idea, one being responsive radio.” – George Jarrett
Advanced content production in an automated world 11:30, Emerald Room
Immersive Audio: From the big screen to the small screen 11:30, Auditorium, FREE SESSION
Meet the Dutch – produced in association with the city of Amsterdam 11:30, E102
The outlook for broadcast – IBC2014 wrap-up 11:30, Forum
Laser projection Part 1: seeing is believing 16:00, Auditorium, FREE SESSION
Laser projection part 2: Is the devil in the details? 16:00, Emerald Room
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