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Metadata Workflow Solutions
Looking at the latest developments and installations in an increasingly relevant and
rapidly changing area for broadcasters and post-production houses...

By Jim Evans
Contributing Editor

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imecode
Systems
is
collaborating with Adobe to add
the wireless timecode functionality
of the Timecode Buddy: wiﬁ master
to the upcoming Adobe Prelude
Live Logger- an iPad app offering
production teams intelligent realtime content logging capability.
Using fluid graphics and iOS
technology to create a highly userfriendly, customisable
and accessible interface,
Adobe Prelude Live
Logger removes the
hassle from the
age-old problem of
recording metadata
and workflows for
production teams.
Prelude Live Logger
allows any member of
the production to easily
track visual content
against highly accurate
Timecode Buddy
generated timecode on
an iPad while they shoot.
This is the same accurate
timecode that is used for all
the technical equipment on the
shoot. This metadata can then be
ingested seamlessly into Adobe
Prelude CC or Adobe Premiere Pro
CC ready for the post-production
experts to work their magic.
"The collaboration between
Timecode Systems and Adobe to
create Prelude Live Logger made
perfect sense," says Paul Scurrell,
Founder of Timecode Systems
Limited. "Both of our companies
share the same ambition - to
provide our customers with
the best possible platform to
create a workflow of intelligent
location based content logging,
all with highly accurate timecode

stamping. With Prelude Live Logger,
production professionals will soon
have a reliable logging solution
that works seamlessly with Adobe
editing software."
The ability to export metadata
logged on Prelude Live Logger
live on location directly into Adobe
Premiere Pro CC or Adobe Prelude
CC software not only signiﬁcantly
speeds up logging and editing, but
also ensures a better quality of
content notes.
"Production teams will be
excited with this new
Adobe Prelude Live
Logger is expected
to include Timecode
Buddy wiﬁ master
functionality

seamless way
to track visual
content in Adobe
Prelude CC and
Adobe Premiere
Pro CC," says
Simon Williams,
Director of Strategic
Relations at Adobe.
"Now with Prelude Live
Logger, detailed live location
logging metadata will be seamlessly
integrated into Adobe Prelude CC or
Adobe Premiere Pro CC allowing the
user to start from quality meaningful
location based logging notes."
Nagra, the digital TV division
of the Kudelski Group reports
that Indonesia's newest satellite
television provider, IMTV (PT
Indonesia Media Televisi), a Lippo
Group company, has selected
Nagra's conditional access
technology to secure the content
being delivered over their network.
IMTV offers a combination of pay-

Video professionals working at MediaCity now have a convenient method of
transferring video content to Aframe's cloud platform

Arrow Media is using the Aframe cloud video production and asset
management platform to expedite production for Hairy Bikers

TV and freeview channels with a
focus on local and localised content
and aimed at the growing middleclass population in Indonesia.
Nagra MediaAccess is being
used to protect the operator's
premium content.
"There is a clear and strong demand
for a new TV service in Indonesia,"
said Felix Ali Chendra, Chief
Executive Ofﬁcer of IMTV. "Middleclass Indonesians have experienced
an important growth in discretionary
income and are ready to consume
more television. Thanks to NAGRA's
content protection we're able to
provide new pay-TV channels and
bring a more compelling service to
this class of the population, one
with more choice and more quality
programming that addresses the
many communities and languages
of this vibrant nation."
Aframe's Upload Partner's
latest addition is Timeline TV in
Manchester. Video professionals
working at MediaCity now have
a convenient and simple method
of transferring video content to
Aframe's cloud platform, where
they can quickly and easily review
content, share it with colleagues or
move it to another location faster
than traditional means.
Clients can take their rushes,
dailies, original media or post
produced content in any format
and on any device - cards, drives,
DVDs you name it - to Timeline TV
North's facility in the Blue Tower
and have them ingested directly
onto Aframe's secure servers.
The facility's high-speed data line
ensures fast and reliable uploads,
saving the client time for more
important production tasks.
As the media is ingested, Aframe
transcodes the clips into H.264
web proxies and offers a wide
complement of other collaboration

and distribution services, enabling
powerful workﬂows for greater speed,
efﬁciency, and better productions.
The partnership with Aframe adds
cloud technology to Timeline's
existing roster of services, including
a range of high quality postproduction facilities.
"We use a number of different cloud
media storage services, but they're
limited in capacity and functionality.
That we can quickly transfer rushes
with Aframe, while providing a
secure backup and allowing the
rushes to be viewed and logged,
ticks a lot of boxes for us" said Eben
Clancy, Post-Production Director.
Archiware has launched P5,
a multi-platform solution for
Synchronise, Backup and Archive.
P5 provides customers with a bevy
of user-friendly yet powerful features.
In combination with the new
LTFS support, this version further
strengthens the modules position
as a bare bone asset management
system, says the company.
"Our goal as a company is to marry
innovation with simpliﬁcation," said
Josef Doods, CEO of Archiware.
"Not only have we shortened the
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Archiware has launched P5, a multiplatform solution to help synchronise,
backup and archive data

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