Michael Burns has spent 25 years as a journalist and editor in broadcast, film, design, and interactive media. Alongside roles such as Managing Editor of the IBC Daily, his freelance work appears widely across print and digital platforms. He’s also a regular copywriter for the film, broadcast, and tech industries, an author of books on digital art and multimedia, and occasionally takes on producer roles for digital agencies and conferences.
As this year's edition of the TV Festival is the last to be held in Edinburgh before the move to Manchester, change in many forms featured high on the agenda. The message was that change is not just coming, it's already here – so deal with it.
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At IBC2026, Zero Density will demonstrate how real-time graphics, virtual production and newsroom operations can be brought together within a single production ecosystem.
Investments in university-led facilities and studio partnerships throughout the UK have seen virtual production, real-time engines and hybrid pipelines move from the margins into mainstream curricula. But is higher education matching the skills demand from the industry? Michael Burns reports.
New features and workflow innovations for Adobe’s video tools, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Frame.io, are being unveiled at IBC, as well as Premiere for iPhone.
A content data platform that “will redefine how media is created, managed, and monetised” is being introduced by Avid at IBC. Avid Content Core, a cloud-native, open and extensible production platform, unifies asset identity, ingest, storage, metadata, orchestration, and rights information into a single intelligent layer. It manages media assets and processes as interconnected data rather than isolated files.
Adobe has unveiled new capabilities for its Firefly family of generative AI models and also teased an ‘agentic strategy’ that will make for truly intelligent tools.
Michael Burns provides a whistle-stop tour of some of the latest AI tools for post-production, and explores how post houses are cautiously approaching the technology.
Scotland’s virtual production scene is taking root with fresh initiatives to expand skill sets, create studio space, and incorporate LED volumes and other burgeoning immersive real-time technologies. Michael Burns reports.
There are many visually attractive, accessible and innovative stands at IBC2024, and the IBC Stand Design Awards celebrate the very best among them all. All stands across the IBC Show were considered and yesterday the four winners were announced across four categories.
Marking its 50-year milestone, Ross Video is set to have a major presence at IBC2024, including the European debut of an extensive line-up of products and technologies.
