All Features – Page 37
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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 ...
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Industry TrendsIBC Accelerators: Virtual & Interactive Live Music Talent Show
Warner Music & ViacomCBS / MTV International teamed up as Accelerator Champions in 2020 with a project that set out to achieve, along with project Participants, Joi Polloi, Never.no and Grabyo, to transpose the existing, traditional talent show and new music discovery formats into a cutting-edge platform featuring real-time, multi-user ...
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Industry TrendsIBC Accelerators: 5G remote production
With ten world leading broadcaster Champions and six vendor Participants, this Accelerator project initially set out to design, evaluate and test an early-stage proof of concept for 5G Remote Production.
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Industry TrendsStudios make move to the cloud
The current workflow challenges in Hollywood are driving interest in accelerating the ambition to move all production to the cloud sooner than 2030.
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Industry TrendsGrading and audio post in the cloud
Accurate reference monitoring and in person collaboration are critical sticking points preventing high end projects from moving final audio and colour grades to the cloud.
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Industry TrendsHow We Built It: The BBFC’s journey towards cloud-based compliance
The BBFC is moving into a new realm of film classification, content tagging and client support for the screen industries, in the biggest technology transformation the organisation has seen. Michael Burns finds out how the whole project came together.
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Industry TrendsCovid content bridges the sports gap
As major sports return following postponement due to coronavirus restrictions, Ross Biddiscombe looks at how broadcasters and OTTs have bridged the gap in sporting content.
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Industry TrendsDesigning OB trucks for a 4K, IP world
Though the industry is eyeing more opportunities in remote production, OB trucks still play a vital role for broadcasters. David Davies looks at the latest OB developments.
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Industry TrendsProduct Launches & Press Events
IBC365 presents a roundup of the virtual events, webinars, product launches, podcasts and demonstrations currently being offered online.
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Industry TrendsHow studios are preparing for production to restart
Although many studios have remained open during the Coronavirus pandemic, production levels have been severely curtailed. Now, with stringent safety protocols in place, they are gearing up for the return of many more shows in coming months.
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Industry TrendsCovering injustice safely
Hostile police, unpredictable crowds and the looming threat of coronavirus have made coverage of the US protests challenging to capture. Ann-Marie Corvin spoke to several news organisations about their coverage strategies.
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Industry TrendsIBC2020 Accelerators: New & immersive real-time workflows for CG animation production
A new IBC Accelerator is looking at ways of leveraging XR tools and real-time content engines to change workflows for the production of animation. Ian Volans investigates.
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Industry TrendsEBU report: 5G could work for broadcasters
A report just published by the EBU concludes that 5G could meet the distribution requirements of both public service and commercial broadcasters. However, there are significant structural barriers that will need to be overcome to realise the potential of 5G.
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Industry TrendsRoadmaps for restarting production
Recent weeks have seen a blizzard of Covid-19 shooting protocols published around the world, with each set of guidelines pored over by the industry to see when and how production might be able to restart.
