I did a short appearance on Newton, a science programme targeted at kids, talking about how we make television broadcasts and some fun facts about television production. I don’t appear until 16 minutes into the clip, so be patient or fast forward to see what I had to say (or at least what the editor decided I had to say).
We wanted to shout out a cool note about using EVS Servers (mostly used in sports for replays and so on) to do recordings in studio and transfer the media to Final Cut Pro edit seats. Up until now we have used 4 DigiBeta decks to capture three ISOs and the switcher output, for logging, ingest and editing in DV quality for the show Jubalong, a kids programme. Now we can start transfer of clips from the EVS to the X-File, the X-File transcodes the mxf’s to DVCPRO50 QuickTime wrapped material on the network or a storage device, and start to edit right after the shoot. This saves a LOT of hours and is much more convenient to work with.
