Universal Content Production—More Bang for the Byte
The broadcasting and film-making industries are fragmenting in one sense yet uniting in another. Broadcasting is separating into content creators versus content distributors, while the film industry is embracing a new mix of traditional photo-chemical and cutting-edge digital. The driving forces? Content creators want to sell the same content to as many buyers as possible; content distributors want to be paid to transport content in any format. Significant economic benefits will accrue through reduced duplication of work and streamlined workflows in this realignment. — Disparate technologies, standards and practices used to obstruct these desires. Now broadcasters are taking steps to make content more universal (metadata, MXF, etc.) and film-makers are adopting the “digital intermediate” approach to make single-inventory masters for theatrical, broadcast and packaged distribution.
- Print ISSN
- 1545-0279
- Electronic ISSN
- 2160-2492
- Published
- 2005-02
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J16232