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Industry TrendsF1 promotes remote production to front of the grid
F1 returned last weekend, but the Covid-19 has forced motorsport to focus on remote production. Adrian Pennington investigates.
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Industry TrendsVideo editing vendors focus on format and ‘workflow acceleration’ with latest updates
Support for Apple ProRes and more customisable workspaces are among the hallmarks of the latest round of video editing system updates, writes David Davies.
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Industry TrendsCan AI help producers beef up back catalogue revenues?
Coronavirus has hit producer revenues hard by stalling production around the world. Can AI-based ad insertion technology help them to squeeze incremental revenues from their back catalogue at such a challenging time?
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Industry TrendsStreamers’ password sharing problem
Before coronavirus struck, the streamers looked to have password sharing in their sights amid estimates that it was costing billions of dollars in lost revenue. The issue has gone quiet for now – but that is likely to change.
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Industry TrendsWhich platforms will gain from the Facebook ad boycott?
With more than 160 major companies pulling their advertising from Facebook, traditional platforms like TV through to digital giants such as Amazon, TikTok and YouTube look set to benefit.
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Industry TrendsIBC2020 Accelerators: 5G Remote Production
Eight national and international broadcast networks have joined an IBC Accelerator that aims to assess the current reality and future potential of 5G in remote production.
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Industry TrendsHow We Built It: ATP tennis goes virtual with IMG Arena
Tennis has spent months suspended but IMG Arena has been using licensed assets to create the first-ever officially branded virtual tennis product, based on the ATP Masters 1000 series. Michael Burns took to the court to find out how it was developed.
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Industry TrendsAudio vendors rise to the challenge of remote working
Increased support for Next Generation Audio and making complex remote working scenarios more practical during lockdown are among the headline trends in the DAW world, writes David Davies.
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Industry TrendsLive TV sports rights to take a Covid-19 hit?
As sports return to our screens, analysts are predicting a downturn in the sports broadcast rights market. But what will be the longer-term impact? Ross Biddiscombe investigates.
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Industry TrendsLEDs are bringing the digital backlot alive
LED screens, more commonly found as backdrop to live music acts or as digital signage at sports venues, are now the hottest property in visual effects production.
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Industry TrendsAd industry spots money in the cloud
Slowly but surely, the advertising industry is switching on to the financial advantages of the cloud to help simplify the delivery of multiple versions of commercials around the world, and to make addressable TV advertising a reality.
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Industry TrendsCloud-connected cameras: Covid-19’s unexpected outcome
Cloud-connected cameras used to be the domain of security systems, but the benefits for broadcasters could be huge – even if implementing them remains challenging. David Fox investigates.
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Industry TrendsCloud Week: Broadcasters seek flexible playout
Implementing some degree of cloud-based playout has been a marked trend for a while now, but this year’s momentous events are certain to accelerate developments, writes David Davies.
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Industry TrendsHybrid Cloud Q&A: vendors ‘bridging the gap’ between different operational environments
The number and variety of hybrid cloud solutions continues to grow as broadcasters seek more flexible ways of working – a requirement given greater urgency by Covid-19, writes David Davies.
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Industry TrendsIBC Accelerators: 5G Centralised Streaming for Location-Based Virtual Reality (LBVR)
This IBC Accelerator Challenge aimed at the outset to showcase an advanced, high-performance 5G network to connect real-time centralised graphic and spatial XR computing power into an end-to-end solution operations system to centrally stream premium, immersive virtual reality content to head-mounted displays.
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Industry TrendsIBC Accelerators: Live Content Moderation
With the key goal of proving the potential value of conducting real-time, AI-driven content moderation on live broadcast and UGC content at scale and speed, this IBC Accelerator, led by Al Jazeera and Co-Championed by AP, Reuters, RTÉ and ETC created a PoC exploiting AI to flag inappropriate content as ...
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Industry TrendsIBC Accelerators: Useable VFX Asset Archive
3D Digital Assets are undoubtedly an increasingly vital component in movies, TV shows and gaming especially those heavy with VFX. This IBC Accelerator project team set out to realise and exploit the long-term value of the VFX and 3D components for film, TV & games assets, future-proofing IP through the ...
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Industry TrendsIBC Accelerators: AI-Automated Video Shot listing
This Accelerator project, led by the Associated Press, addressed a challenge that is a largely manual and very costly process for media organisations today; producing shot lists of raw and edited video content, with written depictions stored alongside the video in the archive.
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Industry TrendsIBC Accelerators: TV Delivered as Objects
Traditionally most TV channels and services today are assembled from components centrally and in a physical form, and then pushed to consumers using traditional broadcast methods. Championed by ITV, BBC, Yle, Unity and TV2, this Accelerator project set out to develop a prototype demonstrating how future TV can be personalised ...
