Panasonic AW-HN40H TV Technology: Guide to Sports Production - Page 7

all the countries in Europe) based on negotiations they've made for distribution rights. For this purpose, a complex, rules-based Manager+Agents deployment is used, bringing content back from the event location and then out to multiple locations across the region. When Everything is Live, and Turnaround Time is a Factor The hours of live footage from a major sports event can reach well into the thousands and draws huge demand. Regional and national broadcasters commonly use Manager+Agents growing file support in order to start transferring files while they are still being written to storage, and get footage turned around as quickly as possible. sometimes countries away. Utilizing Signiant and the cloud for distributed ingest improves file transfer efficiency, and avoids gridlock and connectivity costs at headquarters. Collaborating with Multiple Remote Crews and Freelancers Media Shuttle can come into play in a slightly different way when multiple remote crews and freelancers need to collaborate. Media Shuttle is very easy to set up as a collaborative repository. Remote crews and freelancers can access a share portal from any location and use auto delivery to quickly and securely get content back to headquarters for archiving. Media Shuttle scales to any file size without the need for compression. 3. ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: ACQUISITION CREWS AND HISTORICAL ARCHIVES Major global sports events have organizing committees responsible for housing historical archives of media coverage gathered by officially sanctioned acquisition crews. Flight for Fast Automatic Cloud Uploads, Archiving Official camera operators shoot content across the entire host city. Where archiving is the concern, both remote acquisition crews and managers at headquarters want the easiest, fastest and most reliable means to get finished content organized and securely into archives. In this case, all three Signiant solutions are used. Onsite camera operators have a Media Shuttle auto delivery folder on their laptops. Once they've gone through what they've shot and decided what they want to publish, they add all the files to the folder. Then, the next time they're on Wi-Fi, it automatically syncs to a master folder in a Media Shuttle share portal, which is connected to cloud storage (Amazon S3 and/or Microsoft Azure) via Signiant Flight (IT handles the easy setup of storage for portals, either cloud or on-premises, so photographers never have to think about it). From there, Manager+Agents automatically picks up any new content in the master folder and dumps it into their headquarters, Reversing the Workflow for Content Requests from Historical Archives As you can imagine, official historical archives are huge and valuable. Organizing committees have MAM systems where broadcasters can view and select content online, and order the content clips they require. A reverse of the process used to archive content is used to send these requested clips from official archives. Essentially, once the order has been placed, Manager+Agents receives an instruction to package up content (file format, transcoding, rewrapping, topping and tailing of the file) and triggers a Flight upload to cloud storage. Then Manager+Agents instructs Media Shuttle to deliver it to the broadcaster. SIGNIANT'S SIMPLE YET POWERFUL PORTFOLIO IS DESIGNED FOR MAJOR SPORTS MEDIA PRODUCTIONS From international broadcasters to historical archivists, those that are responsible for bringing the athletes, performances, matches, races and ceremonies from major events need the best technology available. Signiant Manager+Agents has long been a cornerstone for large broadcast companies to automate file movement between their locations. With the addition of Media Shuttle and Flight, SaaS solutions that scale to the needs of short, high volume production demands, Signiant has become the choice architecture for global sports event operations. ISEMENT www.signiant.com