Despite recent advances, the successful integration of systems over a network to enable efficient workflows in a cross-platform, multipurpose broadcasting environment continues to be a challenge. If we look at what’s actually involved in this process, we can understand why this challenge remains and identify ways to achieve an efficient solution.
To begin, there are 14 parameters ranging from frame size through compression that need to be matched in order to move a clip between two boxes. And yet, this still doesn’t actually improve our workflow. All this achieves is what we used to do by taking a tape from one VTR to another! File-based workflows start to pay dividends when the clip carries its own description, i.e., the metadata, so that the system can automaticallly file it, process it, index it and deliver it.
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