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Industry Trends
Cloud Week: Broadcasters seek flexible playout
Implementing some degree of cloud-based playout has been a marked trend for a while now, but this year’s momentous events are certain to accelerate developments, writes David Davies.
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Hybrid Cloud Q&A: vendors ‘bridging the gap’ between different operational environments
The number and variety of hybrid cloud solutions continues to grow as broadcasters seek more flexible ways of working – a requirement given greater urgency by Covid-19, writes David Davies.
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How We Built It: The BBFC’s journey towards cloud-based compliance
The BBFC is moving into a new realm of film classification, content tagging and client support for the screen industries, in the biggest technology transformation the organisation has seen. Michael Burns finds out how the whole project came together.
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Product Launches & Press Events
IBC365 presents a roundup of the virtual events, webinars, product launches, podcasts and demonstrations currently being offered online.
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Roadmaps for restarting production
Recent weeks have seen a blizzard of Covid-19 shooting protocols published around the world, with each set of guidelines pored over by the industry to see when and how production might be able to restart.
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IBC2020 Accelerators: Live Content Moderation
Al Jazeera, RTÉ, Reuters and AP have partnered on an IBC Accelerator which seeks to enable media organisations to protect the integrity of their content and brands while achieving significant efficiencies, writes Ian Volans.
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Enriching content through metadata
As the need to optimise the use of new and archived content intensifies, so does the requirement for “deeper and richer” metadata geared towards the requirements of individual content creators and services, writes David Davies.
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Industry moves: Deltatre, Disney and Euro Media Group
IBC365’s update on company appointments, resignations and restructures across the content and broadcast industry.
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IBC Accelerator: Usable VFX Archive
Storing 3D VFX assets in an accessible way will reduce the cost and complexity of re-using those assets, make them easier to share between contributors in a workflow, and increase efficiencies across the ecosystem. An IBC Accelerator project is aiming to tackle this.
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Managing mental health during a pandemic
The film and TV industry has been shuttered with freelancers and staff across the entire supply chain impacted by business decisions and company closures. During Mental Health Awareness week, Alana Foster investigates what support and initiatives are out there.
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365 Playlist: Codecs
With 2020 predicted as crunch time for the “codec wars” IBC365 rounds up features on compression and codecs, from EVC and VVC to VC-6 and AV1.
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JT-NM takes testing program virtual
Front-line vendors were due to conclude the third JT-NM Tested Program in Houston in March, but Covid-19 transformed the conversation on the project, writes George Jarrett.
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Looking to the cloud during lockdown
Heightened demands on cloud storage and bandwidth pressures resulting from large-file transfer are the universal concerns for broadcasters as production shifts greatly in favour of working from home during lockdown, writes David Davies.
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Cracking the code – AI enters the frame
The traditional means of optimising video streaming workflows have run their course. Future advances will be made in software automated by AI.
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365 playlist: Cyber security
Among the challenges broadcasters and platform owners face today is restreaming, credential sharing, ransomware and hacking of content and data. IBC365 rounds up insight and tips from experts on cyber security.
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Will lockdown boost adoption of digital production management tools?
The coronavirus lockdown may afford producers and broadcasters much-needed time to investigate more efficient ways of managing productions, in particular by adopting digital production management workflow tools.
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365 playlist: Working remotely
Working remotely amid a crisis is challenging with budget cuts, contingency plans and broadcasting changes all causing uncertainty. In the first of a series, IBC365 rounds up industry innovations and tips on succeeding in remote working.
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Industry moves: BBC, Vuulr, ProSiebenSat.1
IBC365’s update on company appointments, resignations and restructures across the content and broadcast industry.
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Analysis: The supply chain in the time of coronavirus
With Covid-19 impacting all areas of the media and broadcast sector, Andy Stout looks at how supply chains may suffer due to the growing pandemic.
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Sustainability: The difference between red meat and the media
George Jarrett reports from a Media & Entertainment Services Alliance keynote that warns of a new e-waste