MAM Best Practices – The beginning is really the end November 6^th 2014 - 10:40 AM

As counterintuitive as this may sound, to actually determine what you need in a digital asset management system, you have to start at the end. So in other words, the most important questions to ask when trying to determine what goes in to your asset management system, is ‘What are

Content intelligence November 5^th 2014 - 03:16 PM

There are around seven and a quarter billion people in the world today. You can go to worldometers.info and watch the total rise. What does this mean for us humble folk who used to work in broadcast?

Using KPI for Media Workflows November 3^rd 2014 - 07:09 PM

Determining the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) required in order to measure media workflows is no different than for other workflows. Attempting to set standards and measure these without a thorough understanding of the process will result in incorrect results regardless of whether your workflow is for a doctor’s office o

The Anatomy of the IP Network, Part 1 November 3^rd 2014 - 02:00 PM

This is the first in a three-part series of articles to help engineers and technical managers better understand the IP network, which has become the core technology in the broadcast center.

Workflows in the Cloud: A Heavenly Solution for Broadcasters’ CAPEX and Video Processing Goals November 1^st 2014 - 04:35 PM

While cloud computing isn’t new, only recently has it begun to play a critical role in the video workflow process as broadcasters seek new ways to reduce the costs of their video processing and quality control (QC) needs. The immediately available processing infrastructure of the cloud is naturally appealing t

Sony collaborates with Evertz on IP interoperability October 22^nd 2014 - 01:30 PM

Sony and Evertz flesh out details of IBC announcement, with the promise of making live studio and sports broadcasts more efficient and less expensive. The collaboration leverages Sony’s Network Media Interface and Evertz’s Software Defined Video Network.

Reimagining archive as integral to production, preparation and delivery October 21^st 2014 - 02:47 PM

Content owners have traditionally archived material as a resource worth keeping in perpetuity, but this simplistic approach is no longer fit for purpose. Invariably though, detailed knowledge about the content is unavailable or it is in a state where it cannot be easily unlocked. If assets are stored on disparate

Front Porch Digital looks to metadata and fresh markets October 7^th 2014 - 05:34 PM

In a perhaps not entirely coincidental business move, the swoop by Oracle for Front Porch Digital (FPD) announced a month ago, reunites core FPD technology with the company that originated it 16 years ago. FPD’s flagship storage management product DivArchive was initially developed within StorageTek in 1998, a company subsequently acquired