ASIA-PACIFIC BROADCASTING

EditShare, a provider of cross-platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, has revealed that ITV Studios, the UK’s largest commercial production company, is using EditShare’s advanced broadcast and post-production technology to produce the award-winning Emmerdale series.

The large-scale upgrade, part of the soap’s move from its Burley Road base to the main building, moved the Emmerdale production team off a tape-based, SD infrastructure to an integrated, tapeless HD workflow comprising the latest EditShare broadcast technology; Flow for asset management; Geevs for multi-channel studio ingest and playout; and Ark for backup and archiving.

EditShare’s flagship XStream storage servers are at the heart of the new Emmerdale production workflow, centralising content access for all departments and distribution channels.

Gary Westmoreland, Emmerdale postproduction supervisor, said: “The use of Edit­Share on Emmerdale supports our move towards a fully tapeless environment. It has enabled us to improve efficiency and allows almost instant access to media at full HD resolution or proxy level.”

The Emmerdale production team transitioned quickly to the new workflow with many production perks and a much more collaborative way of working together.

The benefits of the EditShare workflow solution to ITV Studios include:

• From two studio galleries, Geevs, connected to a Vision Mixer, records the cut version and camera ISOs directly to digital files with full-quality, instant replay to review and critique takes.
• Media is recorded directly to the XStream shared central storage, with user-level security, mirror copy and backup in Ark. Engineers can log shots and create mark ins and outs during ingest. Content is available immediately for editing.
• Geevs creates an Avid sequence in real time directly from the cuts made by the Vision Mixer. Sequences can be dragged from Flow into the Avid editing system, reducing the need to re-cut and allowing more time for post.
• EditShare Flow creates low-resolution proxy files in real time that everyone can view from their desktop. Users can review and rough-cut media via Flow, and drag and drop clips and sequences into their NLEs.
• The Geevs Failover utility guarantees that in the unlikely event of the loss of contact with the XStream server it will continue to record clips from the studio galleries.

 

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