Truly Tapeless Workflow(s)

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Truly Tapeless Workflow(s)

• IT is Going Outside
• Files Are Going HD
• Videotape is Going
• Gone!
• Theres No Stopping IT

Peter Fasciano Fellow, Advance Development Co-Foun
der, Avid Technology
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Tapeless Workflow(s), Defined

• The NLE workflow began-
• NLE, an island, an IT guest in the house of video
• Play video in, do stuff, play video out to tape
  
• Local storage for each NLE system, Paint system

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Tapeless Workflow(s), Defined

• The NLE workflow is maturing
• Workgroup or Enterprise central/shared storage
• Titles/graphics, effects, video editing, audio
  sweetening
• Ingest from field systems based on videotape
• Original footage on videotape provides a safety
  net
• Original footage becomes a preliminary archive
• Publish to playout servers, Web, DVD, videotape,
  etc.

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Tapeless Workflow(s), Defined

• The NLE workflow is becoming critical
• Workgroup or Enterprise central/shared storage
• Needs to be 6? reliable, carrier class, digital
  dialtone
• Ingest from field systems based on ??
• Original footage Whats original footage?
• Original footage becomes a problem to archive
• Publish to playout servers, Web, DVD, videotape,
  etc.

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Tapeless Workflow(s), Defined

• The NLE workflow and 6? reliability
• Ingest and 6?
• Double write on ingest Local write / push to
  Enterprise
• Dual Ingest Store locally / push to NN
  mirrored files
• Playout and 6?
• Flatten, Forward Store
• The less playout technology, the better
• Nothing more complex than concatenated flatfile
  streams

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Tapeless Workflow(s), Defined

• The NLE workflow and 6? reliability
• Bandwidth and 6? For many competing workflows
• High QoS production fabric - bandwidth for all
  clients
• The client count is going up need more viewing
  stations
• Production fabrics peak load design/management
• Data files move at max wirespeeds, not
  videospeeds
• File Xfer to playout systems ASAP

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Tapeless Workflow(s), Outdoors

• The NLP workflow I.T. is going outside
• Adding field acquisition with I.T. based cameras
• Completely eliminates videotape (raw footage)
• Casual, ubiquitous screening/preview becomes an
  issue
• Need more workflow options/strategies in the
  field
• Field data copying archiving
• File sequence transport options

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Tapeless Workflow(s), Ahead

• The NLP workflow I.T. needs standards
• MXF AAF good technologies a good start
• Moving files from camcorders to NLEs
• I.T. Media Plug-n-Play is the goal
• Metadata MXF eliminate need to re-wrap files
• OP-Atom is preferred for NLE performance

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Tapes Workflow a look back

• Tape based systems are naturally diffuse
• Failures are physically isolated events
• The rest of the facility remains unaffected
• Enterprise failures
• What happened? Was it a virus?
• Bandwidth and subnetting divide conquer
• Distribute the fabric breakaway bandwidth

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