2. Overview
Technology design & integration with business activities
• Services in Scotland
• Technology Strategy & Vision
• Impact and change from QMD operation
• Broadcasting Aspirations and realisation
• Support for File Based Production
• Provisioning of new services
3. Services in Scotland
S i i S tl d Lerwick
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Kirkwall
i k
Wick
• All Scotland Transmissions Stornoway
• Radio Scotland
• Radio nan Gaidheal
• BBC 1 Scotland
• BBC 2 Scotland
Benbecula Portree
Inverness
• BBC ALBA
•
Aberdeen
bbc.co.uk
• BBC Network Production Dundee
Oban
•
Stirling
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Larger Production Centres
L P d ti C t Dumbarton
•
Edinburgh (Tun)
Edinburgh Tun & Parliament Edinburgh (Holyrood)
• Aberdeen
Glasgow
Duns
• Dumbarton Ayr
Selkirk
• Glasgow
•
Dumfries
Inverness Stranraer
4. Technology Strategy & Vi i
T h l St t Vision
• Common file-based digital production systems
file-
• Integrated desktop production
• Background services to support Interactive & Graphics
needs
• Core digital library
• Pan Scotland approach
• One core IT Network with improved WAN connectivity
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• “Off the shelf” technologies
7. Broadcasting R
B d ti Requirements
i t
• Adjacencies
• SMPTE/EBU temperature & humidity control
• Cooling - people to people
– People to kit
• Resilient power & mains protection
• Control of water (cores)
• High density bay space
• Integrated b ildi management systems
I t t d building t t
• Flexible broadcast infrastructure
8. Operational Aspirations
O ti l A i ti
• Common system Centralised Ingest
• Sh i media – around Scotland and with the
Sharing di d S tl d d ith th
rest of the UK
• Long term project support
• Multi-p
Multi-platform
• Improved workflows and tools
• Re-
Re-use of media
• Resilience
9.
10. File Based Production
Publish
Production Digital
Library
50i &
DNxHD
Audio & Music
Journalism Archive
50i &
Journalism
DNxHD &
DV240
Vision
Vision
11. Television
T l i i
• Integrated production & post production
• Single television content production system based around Avid
Interplay (inc News)
• Central ingest model
• New Digital Library, file delivery, repurpose, publication, future
creative archive
• New se ces layer – transcoding, rendering, file t a s e , p o y
e services aye t a scod g, e de g, e transfer, proxy
generation, production viewing
• Networked graphics solution
• Developed an end to end file based production system
op d a d o d ba d p odu o y
• Mapped and standardised our metadata
• Advanced desktop tools
• HDTV capability & infrastructure
• Dolby 5.1 surround dubbing and HD mastering capability
17. Radio
R di
•End to end digital solution
•Integration between Desktop tools and
Studio facilities
•Provide access to the Digital library
•Sharing of material – collaborative radio
community across Scotland
•Single studio technology
•Automated play-out services
play-
21. Play-
Play t
Pl -out
• Resilient transmission facilities
• 3 Scottish networks being supported
• 2 Live transmission suites – BBC 1
Scotland, BBC 2 Scotland
• BBC Alba automated system
23. Benefits
B fit
• Shared access to media across the board
• Five new content streams for Radio from Digital Library
• Transferable skills across production
T f bl kill d i
• Migrateable production workflow
• Simplified support and training costs
• Integration of Craft and Production – new direction for the future
• Transformed flexibility and capacity for on-line & on-demand
on- on-
• HD for the same cost as SD
• Richer experience in editing, now been seen in the output (Sky
Medics & Eórpa)
• More integrated News operation (Radio & TV)
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