Draft Document: The Impact of Ubiquitous IP Connectivity on Electronic News Gathering and Remote Broadcast Infrastructure

The convergence of IP technology within the broadcast infrastructure has caused permanent changes in every process and workflow. In news, it has had a profound impact on video capture, editing, storage, play-out, and transmission of recorded content. Non-linear editing tools have been a factor in video production for over three decades, but the true extent of their capability is only now being reached. In the 1990's, tape based digital field cameras became available, and had an immediate impact on ENG in that the benefits of studio quality non-linear editing were now directly applicable to digital tape shot in the field. Early adopters of digital video for ENG found themselves in a familiar situation, as the new field cameras recorded compressed digital files on video tape, and the workflow process was essentially similar to analog tape. Cameras based on DV formats had the advantage of an IEEE 1394 link from the recording deck to simplify and speed up the transfer of recorded clips to a computer. Purpose built mobile editing platforms soon became available, followed by editing software for generic laptop computers.

Published

2008-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M001041

ISBN

978-1-61482-939-3