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InMEDIA

MediaCityUK is located at SalfordQuays

Avid Live Shows
At dock10 Post
Since launching in January 2011, we’ve overseen
more than 700 hours of production – all of which
have taken advantage of our highly advanced
production facilities...

By Keith Marshall
Media Manager at dock10

I

t’s genuinely brilliant to be
working somewhere like dock10
(formerly known as The Studios,
MediaCityUK) – there hasn’t been
a production facility built like this
for many years, and we probably
won’t see the like built again for
many more years to come.
At the forefront of it is our endto-end digital workflow, which
has helped us become one of the
partners of choice for everyone from
the BBC to Sky to indies like SO
Television and Avalon.
Some of the fantastic shows
that we’ve been working across
include The Voice UK, Countdown,
Blue Peter, Jeremy Kyle and John
Bishop’s Only Joking.

Blueprint For Assets
As media manager at dock10 it’s
my job to know the exact status
of a show’s footage at any given
time, so that I can report back to
the client. For live weekly shows,
it means the turnaround time is
extremely fast. My team works with
all the different types of footage from pre-recorded clips, to archive
material, to the live feeds coming in
from the studio ﬂoor. It’s vital that

we have a workﬂow that’s reliable,
scalable and ﬂexible, giving the best
end results for the client.
Our post-production workﬂow,
consists of Avid AirSpeed Multi
Stream ingest servers, hooked up
to Avid ISIS 7000 scalable shared
storage, with an Avid Interplay
Production Asset Manager (PAM)
sitting over the top, working as our
media manager engine.
We have 19 Avid Media Composer
editing suites, and an Avid Pro Tools
audio dubbing suite, all running the
latest versions, and connected to
ISIS 7000 and Interplay PAM. When
dock10 was a mere twinkle in the
eye, we were clear we wanted an
end-to-end Avid workﬂow, as we
knew the offerings are rock-solid
and that media flows through
it perfectly.
We can be working on 12
different projects at any one time,
all at different delivery stages, and
running through the Avid workﬂow.
Production teams are constantly
out on location, creating ﬁlms that
we’ll pre-edit and then slot in to the
live show. Typically, a pre-recorded
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