IN MY VIEW
‘The business now has a far more powerful toolbox to offer more elegant
production solutions’ Owen Tyler
POST-PRODUCTION A BIGGER ROLE
Seismic technical changes in the post world over the past 12 months have made the traditional tape- based offline/online route a distant memory, says Evolutions operations director Owen Tyler
key creative roles of editing, grading and dubbing, modern work- flows and technologies provide a great opportu-
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nity to increase efficiencies and improve pro- duction values. Clever use of storage, more efficient codecs, the creative application of file-based acquisition and delivery and effec- tive asset management are now vital for any large-scale production. One exciting area for Evolutions is the work
we have done with large-scale multi-camera rig-based shows. Initially our involvement was to reduce the ingest cost and evolve the estab- lished reality logging systems with smarter metadata searches and more powerful logging. An eight-week location record of four video
streams would generate more than 5,000 hours of video and 48 tracks of audio. When it is directly digitised to servers at multiple
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utting aside the traditional and still
resolutions, savings of more than £100,000 can be made on tape stock, VTR hire costs and digitising for offline. Media can be logged as it is ingested or retrospectively using custom interfaces and dedicated hot keys tailored to each production. The Cinegy- powered logging tools are now available in Evolutions’ edit suites, at desktop level in production space or over the internet for searches, sync pulls and bin assemblies. Evolutions’ success in these areas has been
based on custom designing the workflow around a production’s specific needs. Over the past year, we have captured, logged and posted a range of shows including two series of Hotel (Dragonfly, pictured), Educating Essex (Two- four), Dealers (Fever Media) and, most recently, Home For The Holidays (Monkey Kingdom). Evolutions developed its ‘Luther’ capture
system to acquire switched camera streams at multiple resolutions: XDCam 50Mbps, Avid offline and a low-res browse format for enter- prise storage.
Programme metadata is embedded on cap-
ture, allowing any media to be searched and located instantly, and making offline and online media immediately available. A com- pletely redundant diverse ingest path and automatic archive to LTO tape gives a cheap and robust full back-up on location. The turnaround requirements of Home For
The Holidays required the build of a location edit facility combined with full capture and playback. For this workflow, Evolutions inte- grated the Luther system with EVS servers, allowing for complete frame chase editing and file-based delivery. It is important to remain agnostic to tech-
nologies and adapt and integrate solutions based around a full understanding of both the needs of a production and the benefits each technology can offer. The business is still about experienced creative and technical peo- ple, but it now has a far more powerful toolbox to offer more elegant production solutions. ➤ Owen Tyler is operations director, Evolutions
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