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Making the Workflow Flow
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The toughest things about being the Standards Vice President (SVP) is that everyone expects standards to be the most important thing. In all the systems that I’ve designed and deployed over the years, I've yet to find any production workflow that is 100% standards based. True, the core technologies may well be standards based, but the overall workflow is made up of many technology pieces from open source code, through de-facto delivery specifications based upon SMPTE or Trade Association Specifications that in turn depend on full, International Standards to work. I can already hear some folks saying "In the good old days, everything used standards", but I beg to disagree. |
| Tags: iss138
| pye museum
| pye-philips
| smpte
| ietf
| ieee
| w3c
| aes
| Bruce Devlin - new
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The Evolution of Audio Monitoring
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Every user, production, environment, operation and application is different, meaning that universal tools simply cannot provide the versatility required by today’s customers. Audio monitoring continues to evolve as productions advance, with the need for multi-channel monitoring, configurable metering as well as the ability to adhere to the latest loudness guidelines remaining at the top of the must-have list. |
| Tags: iss138
| tsl products
| st-2110
| lip synce
| ip
| ptp stauts
| amwa
| nmos
| Stephen Brownsill
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Lighting with Gurdip Mahal
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Gurdip Mahal’s credits for lighting design are impressive. Including major Awards shows such as BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Children in Need, as well as The Voice, Top Gear and Crystal Maze, his CV would almost certainly include at least one show with which any one of us is familiar. In addition, he has applied his own particular style to performances by major artists such as U2, Beyonce and Lady Gaga. |
| Tags: iss137
| ac entertainment
| gurdip mahal
| lighting
| stage lights
| light assistant
| Ian Muir
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NAB 2019 Highlights
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The NAB Show in Las Vegas never loses its capacity to surprise. With NHK already transmitting in 8K and the Tokyo Olympics just a year away, this might have been the year that 8K equipment prices descended from the stratosphere to just plain expensive. The main trends at NAB 2019 were an increasing focus on HD-HDR, Media-over-IP and 4K. 8K was pretty low key except for a very promising demo on the Sharp stand: an extremely compact 8K camera at an impressively low price point: $4,000. Shooting at 30 frames per second to an internal card and using a prosumer-style Olympus lens, it looked very much an entry-level product but one with phenomenal potential for any videographer looking to work with very large display screen sizes. |
| Tags: iss137
| finepoint
| nhk
| media-over-ip
| canon xa50
| xa55
| huddlecam
| jvc
| gy-hc550
| panasonic aw-ue-150 ptz
| samsung
| 8k signage
| hdr10+
| livetrakl-20
| mediakind
| Paul MacKenzie
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Living LIVE at BVE with Ross Video
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KitPlus’ Jon Pratchett chats to Stuart Russell, Ross Video, in the BVE studio. Covering customer partnerships and loyalty, pain points, growth, industry trends, pace of IP adoption, 12g SDI technologies, UHD / HDR, 8k, AI and we try to get a hint of new products on the horizon... |
| Tags: iss136
| ross video
| 12g sdi
| uhd
| hdr
| ip
| bve 2019
| bvexpo
| Jon Pratchett
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Switching to Internet Based Distribution
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"An IP status check for the broadcast industry", "Resistance is futile", "IP points the way forward for the broadcast industry"...
Yes, we've read the headlines too. But rather than force you into submission, scare you, or leave you feeling like you have no other choice, we want to give you the information that helps you to make a sensible decision about Internet-based distribution.
So what’s stopping you from making the switch right now?
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| Tags: iss135
| ip
| internet
| distribution
| cerberus
| Chris Clark
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Keeping it remotely real
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Everyone wants to do more with less. Always have, although it could be argued that doing more with more is something to aspire to, not many have that luxury.
So let’s stick with the prevailing winds of doing more with less, and not just doing more, but doing it remotely, particularly in terms of production. Remote production, in particular, is getting a lot of attention in the field these days, but not so much in terms of the remote operation of fixed studios. |
| Tags: iss134
| remote control
| IPE
| IDS
| Reuben Such
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A Sound in Motion QA
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“A Sound in Motion started as a camera test for the new Sony VENICE CineAlta 6K Digital Cinema Camera and evolved into a much bigger project. The film, presented by Golpe Filmes and released this summer, was directed/edited by Ricardo Teixeira. It is a fictional story based on the way deaf people adapt themselves to daily life situations. The intent of the film is to be a positive influence in the way people think about the ‘differences in human beings’ and about issues related to social inclusion, but without turning it into something moralistic or that seems fundamentalist. Through sounds not speech, words or verbal expression we want to relay a positive message and display a clear gaze upon that difference.” |
| Tags: iss132
| miller
| arrow x7
| tripod
| atomos sumo
| sony
| venice
| Antonio Morais
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Informed Disruption
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The industry is currently going through an enormous amount of disruption, and while many are charging in to embrace the changes, others are wringing their hands with indecision. |
| Tags: iss131
| boxer
| ip
| hdr
| 4k
| Marc Risby
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Moving to an IP Platform Considerations
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Audio transport methods have remained virtually unchanged in the broadcast industry for more than half a century. Common approaches to routing audio around large broadcast facilities have closely followed methodology employed in telco central offices, with the use of X-Y crossbar or crosspoint switching. |
| Tags: iss131
| ip
| smpte
| st2110
| Stephen Brownsill
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Tried and tested: DPA d:vice
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KitPlus recently took delivery of an interesting piece of equipment for review. We like our iPhone gadgets here. For us, useful iPhone gadgets started when the Olloclip lens gave us a wide angle adaptor. This was a good start, finally evolving into a proper tool when Ziess produced the Exolens system for the 5,6 & 7 series iPhones. Around the same time as the Olloclip came out we were testing the Fostex AR4i which was a very exciting development at the time. You have a portable device, that you carry everywhere with you, connected to the world but with very limited audio capabilities. A stereo interface with decent microphones was a real boon! |
| Tags: iss130
| dpa
| dvice
| iphone
| journalist mic
| filmic
| ios
| microdot
| KitPlus
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Grand slam IPTV and digital signage platform
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Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, is home to major league baseball’s Kansas City Royals. Built in 1973, “The K” has a proud baseball legacy, and goes down in history for winning two World Series championship titles; one in 1985 and another in 2015 — exactly 20 years apart. The most recent win brought a resurgence of baseball fever to the stadium, hosting more than 2.7 million fans during its 2015 winning season. |
| Tags: iss130
| iptv
| vitec
| eztv
| Joe Walsh
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IP for everyone and 4k everywhere - that will be 2018
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My first prediction for the coming year is that the use of IP to move broadcast content will increase dramatically. Ultimately, it will become the commonplace, just as the use of IP has become part of our everyday, consumer lives. Live sports are closely linked to this growth, as conversion of broadcast signals for transportation across established telecos networks enables content to be viewed in real-time, regardless if it’s in the next room or across the globe. |
| Tags: iss129
| medialinks
| 4k
| ip
| vr
| ai
| John Smith -new
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IP Prompting
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The potential nirvana of interoperable IT, Telecommunications and Broadcast convergent technology definitely felt a lot closer at this years IBC with the launch of many, many broadcast IP ready devices, workflow and solutions. While the big ticket camera and live production infrastructures dominated the headlines there were a number of smaller but equally important IP workflows that were launched which are fundamental to successful, professional TV production and this includes the often forgotten world of TV Prompting
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| portaprompt
| ip
| prompting
| ippg
| windigi
| Jon Hilton#
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IP or not IP, that is the question
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There can be a one size fits all approach to prompting, but with the many forms of production in todays broadcasting world - from a major sporting event, to the biggest Saturday night entertainment show, to a 24-hour news operation or prompting on location - it is unlikely that a single system will suit every circumstance. The equipment needs to be designed for purpose, interchangeable and adaptable, since prompting, like other areas of the broadcast workflow, does not stand still.
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| cuescript
| prompting
| prompter
| ptz
| ip
| Brian Larter
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The Transition to a full end to end IP video solution
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Most video professionals will agree that the future is IP. The question is, when and how do they make this transition? With manufacturers just introducing new IP products, many people are observing and waiting. However, the reality is that the move to IP is already rapidly taking place and is more transformational than the move from analogue to digital, SD to HD, or HD to UHD/HDR. IP will change the way that people interact with video, making it more flexible, more accessible, more scalable and will provide more opportunities for content delivery
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| newtek
| ptz
| ip
| uhd
| streamstar
| xsplit
| vmix
| ndi
| Brian Olson
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Back to Basics with IP Video Production
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Its difficult to attend an industry tradeshow or read a publication without seeing discussions about the technological changes that will impact the broadcast market in upcoming years. These changes include 4K/UHDTV, High Dynamic Range and High Frame Rate video but the transition to an all IP video workflow is regarded as a disruptive technology change that will demand new skill sets and infrastructure. |
| Tags: iss127
| tek
| tektronix
| ip
| test
| Michael Waidson
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Peace of mind in a complicated world
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For many in the broadcast industry these are challenging times. With competition coming from all angles and different technological camps advocating different approaches to infrastructure and the way forwards. With the number of different variables increasing, the choices of whether to use SDI or IP infrastructures, and the choices around HDR and WCG let alone the on-going distraction of UHD / 4K. |
| Tags: iss127
| omnitek
| smpte 2110
| ip
| ultra tq
| 2022-6
| Alan Wheable
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Implementing an IP workflow
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The eventual move to incorporate IP into your infrastructures is an inevitability. However, with justified concerns about interoperability and uncertainty about which vendors are best placed to help organisations achieve their IP media networking and content delivery goals, is it any wonder there is hesitation about moving forward? Broadcasters very wisely, don't want the pain without the gain! |
| Tags: iss126
| medialinks
| ip
| mdp3020
| gateway
| John Smith -new
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IP-Based Intercom Solutions
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The broadcast market has experienced a huge change over the last decades, resulting in the need for larger and larger intercom systems. As the demands of broadcasters have grown, the central factor for manufacturers keeping up with demand has been IP. A company at the forefront of this development is RTS. In the new millennium, the company has established its IP-based intercom solutions based on OMNEO media networking architecture. |
| Tags: iss125
| omneo
| rts
| roameo
| intercom
| IP
| Jon Ridel
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Modernizing the Cutting Edge
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Over the last decade, streaming as a medium has seen tremendous growth. Services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Video are no longer just post-hoc distributors of broadcast television content, they have become content creators and are producing some of the most well received "television" content of the past few years. |
| Tags: iss124
| matrox
| ip
| h.264
| h.265
| streaming
| Myles Carter - new
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Mr MXF does Vegas
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For quarter of a century I have been boarding planes to Las Vegas every April and the thing I look forward to most is the Sunday morning cycle from the Strip up to the top of Red Rock Canyon to look back down upon Vegas. From up there, you get a sense of perspective of how alien the city stuck in the desert really is. |
| Tags: iss124
| nab
| mrmxf
| cloud
| ptp
| imf
| ip
| Bruce Devlin - new
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Live Remote Production Over IP
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As broadcasters migrate to a more ubiquitous IP transport and switching network infrastructure, a key benefit is that the variable expenditures of remote on-site live productions can be dramatically reduced, as it is no longer necessary to carry the high field costs associated with these activities. |
| Tags: iss123
| medialinks
| ip
| remote production
| John Smith -new
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Libec TH-X Tripod review
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It is worth highlighting that I am primarily an Editor. Like many of us, over the years I have regularly been involved in the entire creative process in some capacity but increasingly I am asked to go out and film the simpler corporate jobs such as exhibition stands or a 'piece to camera' for YouTube, Vimeo etc. and embedded into the customer's web site. These tend to be the jobs which wouldn't happen at all if the client had to pay for the whole package; camera, sound, director, kit hire, etc.
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| Tags: iss122
| libec
| th-x
| tripod
| Nick Robbins
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What are the challenges of AoIP
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At the setup of a recent Outside Broadcast (OB), I was privy to an attempt to pass a signal across two independent Audio over IP (AoIP) enabled trucks. In an SDI world, this bridge would have been as simple as coupling two BNC cables together, but here the engineers quipped about the additional and sometimes challenging processes of connecting one truck's IP router to the other's. What range, what subnet, what protocol? And so, I was introduced first-hand to some of the practicalities of transitioning from SDI to AoIP within a live production environment.
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| aoip
| madi
| wohler
| Craig Newbury
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5 top tips to getting the grade you want
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Generally speaking, a grade session can be broken down into two distinct parts - managing the people involved and managing the grade itself. As colourists, we know that unless both of these criteria are satisfied, it is likely that the client will walk away from the project unhappy and not return to us with the next job. |
| Tags: iss121
| grading
| top tips
| Tom Russell
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The future of post production
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Love it or hate it, 2016 will certainly be a year to remember, for many reasons.
In the world of post-production, we've seen high dynamic range become incorporated into UK studio pipelines for the very first time. We watched Ang Lee demonstrate exactly what you can do by shooting at 120 frames per second in combination with stereo 3D. We've even become stunned spectators as film steadily makes a comeback as a creative medium, and VR goes from tinkerer specific to becoming a fully-fledged consumer technology to buy.
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| Tags: iss121
| blackmagic design
| post production
| hdr
| rec 709
| rip hamton oneil
| simon westland
| KitPlus
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IBC with the BBC
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IBC is an exciting opportunity for us in BBC R&D to share with the world the work we've been doing on a range of technologies.
Those attending the conference will be able see much of the work we are doing on new forms of content and workflows and get an understanding of the object based principles for broadcasting which we are working towards, enabled by Internet Protocol (IP). |
| Tags: iss117
| bbc
| ibc
| ip
| Jon Page
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The future of timing and timecode
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It is SMPTE's 100th anniversary! I hope that all readers have had a chance to view the Centennial Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN2yYrEFMFQ) and to contemplate that 100 years ago we were in the dawn of the cinema era, where different equipment used different frame rates, different sprocket sizes, different frame sizes and the concept of distributing and delivering content between different manufacturers was a real headache. |
| Tags: iss116
| timecode
| timing
| IP
| amwa
| Bruce Devlin
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Innovations getting you ready for the transition
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There has been much speculation about the migration away from cable and the potential disappearance of set top boxes. However, regardless of what happens in the future, we cannot escape the fact that a multitude of sources is streaming content into people's living rooms and this is having a significant impact in consumer's use and choice of devices. Whether it is cable, satellite or broadband, the ability to control and interact with this content has increasingly grown in complexity and the choice of viewing and device options is becoming more diverse. |
| Tags: iss115
| uei
| ip
| Menno Koopmans
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Everything you need to know about true IP
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In its own way, every trade show - whether IBC, NAB or CABSAT - is full of firsts. New companies, new partnerships and most importantly, new product releases all want to make their presence known. Nearly all of these firsts however are either a) in response to a hot industry topic or trend or b) trying to predict the next industry trend. |
| Tags: iss115
| true ip
| aperi
| Joop Jensen
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The new world of playout
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Consumers know what they expect from a television channel. They expect programmes, of course, but they also know they are going to get commercials, trailers, station idents, graphics, break bumpers, squeezebacks and hot starts, bugs and brand identities, and more. |
| Tags: iss115
| pixel power
| playout
| ip
| James Gilbert
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The Challenges of Streaming
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The purpose of this article to highlight the challenges facing small and medium streaming services. It is intended to look at how to achieve successful live and pre recorded content by means of streaming. In this article I would like to share the knowledge and the experience I have gained so far. I will also talk about the kit I use, how it is used and the methods I have developed. Another aspect of this article is LOGISTICS which is a very big part of streaming. |
| Tags: iss114
| streaming
| iptv
| vod
| Joseph Ail
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