There is still no silver bullet or single solution that encompasses all the production needs and solves all the issues of integration, interoperability, business and workflow or technology associated with the entire broadcast and production lifecycle of media and its value chain. The design considerations need to start from the very beginning (creation) and continue right through to the end-user experience (distribution and delivery), which includes interaction and transaction. (Location 394)
Solid-state drives require specialized card readers, and these are frequently upgraded and changing. The continuing evolution of these technologies create compatibility challenges, so it is reasonable to question their backward compatibility. There are many considerations to be taken into account for even the simplest of storage decisions. (Location 1379)
As media moves throughout the entire infrastructure, it needs to be accessible to all departments/units including production, distribution, library, legal, finance, marketing and business intelligence. (Location 1464)
The editing workflow has evolved and editor applications are tightly integrated with media managers and their search and browse engines. Additionally, this makes media and metadata more easily accessible via remote access. (Location 1649)
In the IP workflow, automation plays a significant role and the term orchestration can be used to describe a larger use of automation across multiple and diverse systems and devices. (Location 1658)
For commercial networks the integration of commercials is substantially different for each platform. (Location 1724)
Linear program channels have one type of commercial integration, On Demand has a different one and streaming to devices even another. (Location 1724)
There are differences streaming over broadband vs. mobile. (Location 1725)
The traffic department manages playlists not only for multiple channels and time zones, but also across multiple platforms. (Location 1732)
The traffic logs being fed to the automation systems have to include the instructions that specify which metadata fields accompany the content to each platform. There is no standard metadata for the different content distribution channels. (Location 1733)
The traffic and scheduling process provides the command and control metadata that are the instructions to the automation system for what type of processing the content requires for distribution. (Location 1735)
Problem solving, maintenance and support for the IP infrastructure are mostly software centric. (Location 1748)
The broadcast engineer needs to be skilled in network routing, switching, server applications and storage. Understanding the interfaces between different software systems and middleware is an essential knowledge base. (Location 1754)
This metadata is what content delivery networks use to enable program guides, recommendation engines and search tools use to locate the asset, (Location 1774)
Note: See Michael’s automated content description with LLM.
