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What content providers need to know about OTT
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As OTT (Over-The-Top) technology has gotten more mature and established robust standards over the years, the concept of OTT monitoring is gaining popularity. With customer expectations soaring, it’s vital for OTT providers to deliver superior quality content. To deliver Quality of Experience (QoE) on par with linear TV broadcast, the entire system, starting from ingest to multi-bitrate encoding to delivery to CDN must be monitored continuously. |
| Tags: iss134
| ott monitoring
| qos
| logging
| compliance
| dash
| atsc
| cloud
| Hiren Hindocha
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Boradcast playout on-site and in the cloud
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Broadcasters come in many shapes and sizes, each with their own unique set of ambitions and their own preferred route to success. Some are happy to innovate, particularly if it increases staff efficiency or reduces operating costs. Others prefer to let their competitors do the innovating and then follow whatever path appears to work best. Thus the industry has advanced from dedicated hardware to more flexible and cost-efficient software running on 'enterprise-platform' comput-ers, and more recently to virtual devices. |
| Tags: iss127
| playbox
| playout
| cloud
| edgebox
| airbox
| neo
| cloudair
| Don Ash
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Live sports and event production
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There is an overwhelming amount of content being recorded by sports broadcasters and digital services teams. A broadcaster might capture hundreds of hours of content over the course of, say, a golf tournament, yet only a fraction of that content makes it to air. But what about the rest of it, such as interviews, scenic shots, promos, and behind-the-scenes footage? Too often, priceless moments that don't make it into the broadcast get left on the cutting room floor because they're either not preserved or the right people can't access them, or both. |
| Tags: iss126
| wazee
| dam
| cloud
| Brian Eldredge
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The challenges of media workflow automation
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The media workflow challenge has never been more complex, and it's growing. In response exploding consumer demand for high-quality, engaging programming, media operations are under the gun to create content and deliver it to an ever-growing range of platforms and devices. Managing video assets - that is finding them, accessing them, and using them efficiently and effectively - is one of the biggest barriers to success in today's environment. |
| Tags: iss126
| automation
| workflow
| cloud
| on-premise
| hybrid
| mam
| square box
| Dave Clark
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Navigating Unfamiliar Territory
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The traditional broadcast model - where TV networks play content on a linear schedule, and viewers tune in on their TV sets - is under siege. Linear TV is not going away anytime soon, but the model is becoming less and less relevant. Thanks to the rise of OTT services, viewers have become accustomed to watching content when and where they want, on just about any device with an internet connection. For that reason, broadcasters must add an OTT component to their offerings. |
| Tags: iss124
| cloud
| amagi
| ott
| hls
| rtmp
| mpeg-dash
| yupp tv
| netflix
| amazon prime
| sling tv
| Vijay Sagar Vinnakota
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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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Pushing the Boundaries for OTT
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OTT video consumption is gaining traction in Western Europe, with 55 percent of UK broadband households and 51 percent of homes in France watching TV programming and movies online, according to Parks Associates. OTT subscriptions are especially popular with today's Millennial population, as Parks Associates found that 23 percent of Millennial heads of household in the U.S. are OTT-only households. |
| Tags: iss123
| ott
| cloud
| harmonic
| pure compression engine
| Yaniv Ben-Soussan -new
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MAM needs to adapt or die
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The media landscape has shifted dramatically over recent years. Content providers are under increasing pressure to deliver compelling content to multiple platforms. Also, the production and distribution of video is no longer limited to traditional broadcasters, which face rising competition from a range of media providers. We are also seeing a massive increase in video being produced to broadcast quality by companies using it for other purposes, such as marketing, site surveys, internal communications, and a whole host of other applications. |
| Tags: iss121
| mam
| cantemo
| hybrid cloud
| virtual reality
| Tim Child
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Assets in the air
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People everywhere are talking about "the cloud", as if it is somehow something (1) new and (2) intrinsically exciting. It really is neither of those things. In the IT world, software as a service (SaaS) has been around since the 1960's when organisations bought the use of mainframe software on a time-sharing basis. |
| Tags: iss121
| tmd
| cloud
| mam
| era
| coeus
| Paul Wilkins
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Up in the air with Dick
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In the last issue of this magazine was a very interesting article by Lee Sheppard of SGL, talking about the pros and cons of archiving in the cloud. While there is a lot of conversation about cloud storage, its pluses and minuses, I have to confess to still being slightly confused about the practicalities and economics of it. So armed only with Google and the calculator on my iPhone I set about some back of envelope thoughts. |
| Tags: iss115
| sxs
| sgl
| archiving
| cloud
| dick hobbs
| Dick Hobbs.
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Content Security in the CLoud
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Security is a difficult topic. There is no such thing a generic security. You always secure yourself against specific threats and hope the solution is generic enough to cover other similar classes of threat. For example - placing an expensive lock on the front door of your house prevents the specific threat of gaining access by using the door handle on the door. It gives you no protection at all from someone using a diamond tipped chainsaw to cut through the house to make a new door. |
| Tags: iss114
| cloud security
| saas
| paas
| Bruce Devlin
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The Evolution of Cloud
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Television was originally created to be a mass communication platform. Yet, over the last few years, it is becoming increasingly hyperlocal. There are several reasons the television industry is transitioning from a broadcast to narrowcast schematic |
| Tags: amagi
| iss108
| cloud
| hyperlocal
| Micky Edwards
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Combining on-site and cloud storage
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Technology and profitability have an intimate and often complicated relationship. A new invention may open up the possibility of new forms of business, or greater efficiency in existing businesses. Sometimes the invention may be a response to a clear need necessity being the mother of invention. But on other occasions a technological advance may have good theoretical applications but be economically impractical to implement. |
| Tags: iss102
| on site
| cloud
| storage
| archive
| alto
| Alan Hoggarth
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Cloud Editing at BVE
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As Media Partners at BVE 2015 KitPlus was responsible for recording, editing and publishing 50+ hours of video content from the event seminars, roaming reporters and studio discussions over the course of the show. With material coming from different sources, crew and post-production staff consisting largely of students with varying levels of proficiency and tight timelines thrown into the mix we needed a post-production solution that was quick to set up, easy to learn and provided a creative and reliable solution. After chatting with Forbidden Technologies for a while we decided to use their Forscene platform. |
| Tags: iss099
| bve
| forscene
| forbidden
| cloud editing
| studio
| video
| workflow
| KitPlus
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Still unsure about cloud editing? Read this..
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For all the talk about the cloud in the past couple of years, it can still be a bit of a mystery. When it comes to editing video in the cloud, some people still struggle with the concept. Is cloud editing secure? Do I need special knowledge? Why switch from traditional editing workflows? Won't cloud editing use a lot of bandwidth, especially with 4K video? Those are fair questions, and ones that often keep people from incorporating the cloud into their workflows. |
| Tags: iss097
| cloud
| broadcast
| workflow
| editing
| post production
| Stephen Streater
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Bob Pank starts counting cores...
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Once again BVE hosted its one-day Cloud seminar. The new ExCel location meant that the room was away from the show floor and ideal for concentrating on the words flowing from the experts. Full-on attention was needed as squeezing in nine sessions between 10.00 and 17.45 meant that each would be short, sharp and to the point, which was certainly the case for the two I attended. |
| Tags: iss075
| counting cores
| bve
| cloud seminar
| security
| files
| the cloud
| Bob Pank#
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Bob Pank busts the cloud!
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Too may of us can remember the Eyjafjallajokull volcano incident that stopped thousands of Europeans travelling back from NAB 2010. After a long show in the desert many were looking forward to home, real beer and green green grass. But the transport system that had always worked so well was out of commission, and suddenly it was clear that nothing could be done except keeping in touch with the airline, and hoping.
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| the cloud
| workflows
| tv production
| online
| users
| Bob Pank#
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Bob Pank looks at Editing and the Cloud
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Historically video editing has been one of those operations shaped by technology. For decades it depended on VTRs to play and record. You had to go to an edit room, usually darkened and with loads of buttons and winking lights, to get your edit done by a video editor. It was not cheap. Then, with video stored on computer discs, editing went nonlinear, was much faster and more flexible, the control interface became a GUI and costs started to come down.
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| editing
| the cloud
| QTube
| browser
| Bob Pank#
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To cloud, or not to cloud
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Almost ever since it began, there have been two parameters that have played a big part in shaping broadcast television bandwidth and storage. Admittedly, storage was not an issue at the start because there was no way to do it, but Ampex changed that in 1956. Bandwidth dictates many aspects of infrastructure and broadcast picture quality, the amount of space that is needed to store TV footage, and much more. |
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| cloud
| ampex
| Bob Pank#
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Parting the Cloud
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Every so often a trend looms over the broadcast horizon that gathers pace so quickly it soon becomes the buzzword at every launch and trade show. A few years ago it was MAM and more recently stereoscopic; now the big buzz in town is the cloud. But despite its recent rise to fame in the broadcast sector theres still a lot of confusion regarding how manufacturers can develop and manage cloud computing technologies. |
| Tags: iss069
| sgl
| cloud
| archive
| mam
| N/A
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Cloud Storage and the end of silos
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It should not come as any surprise that people who specialise in one thing are not necessarily experts at other things. For example, and getting straight to the point, a great video editor cannot be expected to have the technical skills to securely store the edited master of his finished programme. The master is a valuable asset that is expected to be kept safe and sound. In days gone by, placing it on the shelf in an adjacent storeroom might have been OK but now that is hardly considered secure enough. Running off a copy and storing that somewhere else is good idea... but wait! Surely the editor is getting away from his prime skill editing. The truth is that there now are many choices for storage and it is easy to access top-notch storage services via the internet in the Cloud. |
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| cloud
| storage
| Bob Pank#
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Our third digital revolution?
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A little history the first digital revolution for the TV production and post industries started somewhere about 1972 and then involved introducing digital islands into an analogue world. The introduction of much more affordable digital VTRs such as Sonys DigiBeta in 1993 heralded the beginning of the end of analogue. |
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| digibeta
| oracle
| cloud
| avid
| chyron
| aframe
| saas
| Bob Pank#
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Cloudy NAB
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Those who arrived a couple of days before the NAB show opened had the unusual experience of cool weather, heavy grey skies and rain. The clouds had arrived in Las Vegas. By the time the show opened they had gone but there was still a big one in the North Hall where I experienced my very first Cloud Computing Pavilion. |
| Tags: nab
| cloud
| iss065
| Bob Pank#
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