The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Belgian public broadcasting company VRT unveiled the LiveIP Project. The project is a collaboration between EBU, VRT and a group of companies to build of a live TV production studio at VRT’s premises in Brussels.
Raycom Media has expanded all 33 of its news-producing television stations to the exclusive use of Grass Valley’s Edius Pro editing software. The deal includes all software upgrades for the next two years and contains about 1,500 editing seats at the broadcast group.
How collaborative media platforms can help the broadcast industry win the war for talent.
Just when I thought it was going to be safe to go in the water, out comes a survey and a statement that Live over IP is still 5 to 10 years away. Really?
Previously, Annenberg’s curriculum utilized closed-system software in separate news environments. The main goal of the Media Center was to get them all playing together in one sandbox. The solution proved to be a Primestream FORK production suite.
IP video over Wi-Fi provided a solid new signal transport solution at a fraction of most wireless link costs. Wi-Fi was easy. The challenge was finding available devices to convert camera HDMI into IP for Wi-Fi transport, and decoders to convert IP back to HDMI for the production switcher.
UHD, 4K, 6K, 8K…the proliferation of high-resolution formats and files, along with the growing number of skillsets that can collaborate on projects, can push storage bandwidth and capacities beyond their limits. With millions of assets available to potentially hundreds of creatives, resource contention across storage and lack of sophisticated media management tools become a major issue. Efficient, reliable and high-availability media storage, normally reserved for enterprise-class applications, is fast becoming the requirement across all levels for production and post.
Anyone who says engineering live field production is a breeze isn’t serious.
