Agenda
TVB Europe
The IT Broadcast Workflow
Tuesday 1 December 2009
Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park, London
08.45 Registration and refreshments
09.30 Opening remarks from the chair
Jeremy Bancroft, Director, Media Asset Capital
09.40 Discovery Communications
Reducing the costs of delivering to more than 10 VOD platforms with 14 different languages and eight subtitle languages
+ An overview of Discovery Communications’ initial objective
+ Setting up factories that automate specific processes to transcode, repurpose and customise each asset allowing consistent, hands-free processing
+ Inserting promos and bumpers according to specific customer requirement
+ Adding burnt-in subtitles during the transcoding process
+ Reducing entry cost to test and deliver custom content to a new platform enabling Discovery to add new markets to VOD offerings
Darren Breeze, Director of Broadcast Engineering, Discovery Communications
George Boath, Sales Director, Telestream
10.10 Television Versioning & Translation (TVT)
Digitising and transforming new and archived content
+ Improving workflow efficiency with cut-and-splice versioning tools, network rendering capabilities and best-in-class video processing and conversion
+ Dramatically reducing ingest time
+ Reducing the equivalent quality file size by as much as 25%
Jake Robbins, Television Versioning & Translation
Bruce Devlin, Chief Technical Officer, AmberFin
10.40 L’Equipe 24/24
L'Équipe 24/24 manages new media for L'Équipe TV sports news channel; the company's web site L'Équipe.fr; and the RTL-L'Équipe digital radio station. The company has a collection of over 10,000 videotapes as well as still images and newspaper and magazine articles documenting sports events back to 1920.
+ Learn how the French sports news media company built efficient archiving and optimised workflow management
+ The challenge to simplify access to and facilitate repurposing of content
+ How the broadcaster rationalised the use of audio and video content between web, radio and TV – and new media platforms within L’Equipe 24/24
+ The deployment of Netia’s Manreo Hypercast Warehouse MAM platform and the new Netia Workflow Engine automation system, working with a Quantel editing platform
Sebastien Valere, Operations and Marketing Director, L’Equipe 24/24
Christine Jecko, Vice President Sales, Netia
11.10 Morning refreshments and networking
11.40 The Press Association
The Press Association is the UK's leading multimedia news and information provider and supplier of business-to-business media services. As home to the national news agency of the UK and Ireland, the Press Association takes its place at the heart of the media industry providing a continuous feed of text, pictures, video and data into newsrooms around the two countries.
+ The Press Association has implemented a MAM solution to gather, produce and distribute media content and metadata to multimedia platforms
+ The MAM is the centre point of production, connecting newsgathering, production and distribution across multiple subsystems
+ Understand how MAM helps to answer growing demand for video materials in different formats
+ Learn how the underlying workflow engine streamlines the production workflows across the entire production chain
+ Discover the ability of integrated production tools to accelerate production and decrease the needs for highly qualified staff
+ File-based workflows and business processes enable many tasks to be automated and distribution to be optimised
+ Metadata is consistently tracked all along the workflow, giving extra value to the archived content
James Elliot, Multimedia IT Business Manager, The Press Association
Raoul Cospen, Director of Marketing, Dalet Digital Media Systems
12.10 NPO (Nederlandse Publieke Omroep)
Getting Catch-Up TV content to the web as fast as possible
+ Meeting new customer demands requiring different architecture and state-of-the-art video capture and transcoding platform
+ The goal: to have 95% of video-on-demand (VOD) and Web content for the broadcaster’s service available within 10 minutes of the end of a broadcast programme (meaning that the project’s capture and transcode system has to complete its work within 2-3 minutes)
+ Enabling the broadcaster to publish broadcast content from the three Dutch public TV channels to multiple outlets (digital cable, IPTV and FTTH) within 10 minutes of a show’s broadcast on-air time
Egon M Verharen, Director Engineering, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
Jeroen Wilmes, Director Marketing and Sales, Technicolor
12.40 Lunch
13.50 Turner Broadcasting System
Centralising ingest and archive in a multi-channel environment
+ Turner’s Broadcast Inventory Management Project (BIM) has provided centralised ingest and archive for a large multi-channel operation
+ Intelligent workflows manage large volumes of media operations satisfying demands from different broadcast networks
+ BIM workflows optimise system throughput via processes such as automated QC and proactively pre-staging content from tape to near-line archive
John Morgan, Senior Manager Broadcast IT, Turner Broadcasting System
Neil Maycock, Chief Marketing Officer, Snell
14.20 GOL Television Barcelona
Setting up and launching a 24/7 HD sports service
+ Investing in reliable technology able to ingest up to 30 football matches and broadcast 12 matches simultaneously
+ Ensuring technology is fast and fully integrated with third-party systems for graphics, archiving, asset management and post production
+ Logging media to make it instantly and easily available to journalists and editors searching for content
Israel Esteban, Technical Manager, Unitecnic
Sebastien Verlaine, Marketing Manager EMEA, EVS
14.50 Challenges of Current Broadcast Workflows
Convergence can be a good thing – but how can IT help? The future of broadcast and IT collaboration
+ Case studies: Lime Pictures and Mediaset
+ Presentation by Declan Wood, who has worked in the broadcast and IT industries for over 20 years including time at the BBC, BBC Technology and Siemens. Wood was variously New Business Manager, BBC Technology; Principal Consultant, Siemens Business Systems; and Chief Solution Architect, Siemens IT Solutions
+ Having worked in various production, engineering, IT and strategy roles, Wood is well placed to discuss the challenges facing broadcasters and service providers alike. He now works with end users in helping to solve the problems associated with introducing convergent media technology and new broadcast and production workflows.
Declan Wood, Managing Director, Media Manor Ltd
Alistair Washbourn, Software Marketing Manager EMEA, Quantum Corp
15.20 Afternoon refreshments and networking
15.50 SBS Broadcasting Networks
From channel planning to playout – the automatic workflow
+ Introduction of SBS Playout
+ Defining base functionalities
+ Connecting suppliers and the marriage of IT and Broadcast
+ Using the integrated automatic workflow between planning and playout
+ Ensuring fail-safe broadcast management and scheduling
+ Integrating business-critical modules that are fully embedded in the systems environment
Ricki Berg, Technical Manager, SBS Broadcasting Networks Ltd
Gerrit Cornelis, Development Manager and Business Consultant, MediaGeniX
16.20 Channel 4
In July last year Channel 4 announced the outsourcing of their broadcast and production services to Red Bee Media. With the complex migration now almost complete, come and hear about:
+ How the project was planned and implemented
+ How Channel 4’s existing business systems and existing file-based workflows were supported or migrated
+ The system and workflow choices made at Red Bee’s Broadcast Centre in West London
+ How the media services, post production, nonlinear (video on demand) and channel playout services for Channel4, Film4, More4, and E4 have morphed six miles across London
+ How the joint project team managed the inevitable issues that occur in a migration of this complexity
Shane Tucker, Technical Architect, Channel 4
Ian Wimsett, Senior Technologist, Red Bee Media
16.50 Conference wrap-up Question & Answer
17.00 Closing remarks from the chair
