Workflow
Due to the hectic nature of filming and creating them, reality TV shows need a shared storage solution.
Using multiple lower-cost digitising stations can mean the simple tasks
can be handled by lower cost equipment operated by editing assistants.
As everything happens in the background, this leaves the craft editors
free to concentrate on creating the story.
With all workstations collaborating on the one programme at the same time,
a
very large amount of content can be created in a very short time.
Ingest Suite(s):
- Assistant editor(s) digitise all or selected rushes to EditShare
- Selected live material can also be directly digitised from cameras or studio
Edit Suites:
- The daily show is created from the raw footage stored on EditShare
- special programmes can be simultaneously edited in other suites
- Other edit suites may be used to cut promos or packages for other uses
- Finally, an edit suite may be used for checking content for legal purposes, censorship or for doing simple audio sweetening
Playout:
- The show is finally played out to tape, via a link, or played directly to air from EditShare
- Any footage unlikely to be required can be efficiently deleted while editors are still working, creating space for the next day
- Material required for future use (compilations, montages, promos, etc) can be kept online if space is sufficient, or sent to an archive server or device
EditShare is already in use around the world by broadcast professionals.
With decreasing budgets and ever tightening deadlines, productions must have
quick and easy workflows to save money and maximise time. The broadcast workflow
used with a shared storage solution offers significant benefits for speedy
television, corporate or web content.
Ingest:
- News and promo tapes are ingested into lower cost digitising systems and made instantly available to all editors and journalists
- Satellite and link feeds are ingested and also made available to all edit suites
Journo Stations:
- Can be simple lower cost workstations and may have read-only access to raw footage
- The journalist makes shot selection
- Checks timing of shots against story read rate
- May cut the basic story on the desktop workstation
- All digitised material streams directly from EditShare to their desktop without having to encode to other formats
Graphics:
- Graphic artists prepare the images and animation content and store on a shared workspace on the EditShare system
Playout:
- The completed story is checked and then is ready to be played out to tape or sent to a playout server
Archive:
- Stories can be transferred easily to an archive server for later use
- A cataloguing and search tool provides access to the files in readiness to be moved back online when / if required
Web News / Podcasting:
- Content used in daily news or current affairs can be easily re-purposed. By connecting a media encoding workstation to EditShare, stories and content can be converted as soon as they arrive in predefined 'watch folders'. The completed web files can be sent (via FTP or other methods) to the website developer or straight to the webserver
EditShare
is the perfect tool for feature / independent film editors. Film editors
were the first to embrace digital editing systems, and were the first to
see the workflow benefits of a shared storage solution.
The workflow is simple but very effective in keeping a production on time and on budget.
Assistant Editor(s):
- Digitise rushes and play all cuts to tape or DVD for screenings
- Audio synching of rushes
- Media management tasks
- Organising rushes into bins by scene / location etc.
Senior Editor(s):
- Concentrates on editing
- Frees up plenty of time to attend screenings
- Has time to work and re-work the cuts until perfect
- Keep up with the fast turnaround required today
University, college, and schools:
The education market is an excellent place to see the advantage and benefits of EditShare solutions.
The single largest problem associated with media studies is loss of data at critical assessment times. Training facility deadlines could be just as critical as in broadcast environments.
An EditShare server becomes the media hub of the training facility with
edit suites, graphic workstations and multimedia systems all using the storage
capabilities.
- The administrator / teacher / lecturer sets up user names and passwords by student, project name, or by group name
- Tutorial media can be preloaded onto a workspace that is shared for all users
- Storage is allocated based on need, an allocation per person, or based on workload
- A student logs on with their unique password and EditShare allows access to only the storage they have been allocated. This makes their material safe from damage by others (or themselves!) or loss by sabotage
- Dedicating one or two workstations for ingest means you can purchase fewer video tape decks
- Editshare can be set up so that all media is read only and is protected from deletion. Only the teacher or the administrator can delete this material
- A teacher can review a student' s material from any workstation, even while the student is working
