White Paper 141 Tapeless and paperless: Automating the workflow in TV studio production

September 2006 John Fletcher, David Kirby, Stuart Cunningham

Abstract

The falling cost and increasing performance of PC hardware means thattapeless production using commodity equipment is now realistic.Controlling this with an automated system for logging `takes' in thestudio gallery provides an efficient workflow from studio intopost-production with considerable savings in time and costs.

To test this approach in practice, BBC R&D has developed such a systemand this was used during October 2005 for the production of the latestseries of the BBC children's programme `BAMZOOKi'.

Encouraging results from that production work have resulted in furtherenhancements to the suite of software, which now includes a mediaserver configuration capable of supporting different editing systemsfrom a common set of media files. Much of the software developed is nowavailable as open source.

This document was originally published in the Proceedings of theInternational Broadcasting Convention, September 2006.

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