Programme

Registration and coffee

Chair’s opening remarks

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

BBC Fabric by Digital Media Initiative - delivering the creative future

PRESENTATION

Overcoming commercial and technical challenges to create end-to-end 3D workflows

• Forecasting demand for 3D content and understanding potential issues inhibiting growth in consumer uptake
• Tackling standardisation in 3D workflows
• Determining infrastructure upgrade costs in 3D distribution environments
• Evaluating the increased costs of 3D production and creating fit-for-purpose workflows
• Overcoming specific technical challenges in shooting live 3D
• Examining technical challenges in post-production and keeping costs to a minimum
  

Break and networking

Cost-effective workflows: optimising the performance of P2 workflows

• How cost-effective are they when other technology investments are taken into account and what are the limitations?
• Ensuring against data loss and allaying security fears with P2 memory cards
• Evaluating editing options and considerations in a P2 workflow
• Creating flexible, streamlined P2 workflows that meet the needs of your project, budget and time constraints
  

PRESENTATION

Tackling pre-production archive - ensuring secure, reliable file-transfer

• Protecting content once removed from the memory card
• Successfully integrating pre-production archive into a digital media workflow
• Tracking metadata to improve operability and enhance security
  

PANEL SESSION

4k workflows - the future for top-end production?

• Evaluating 4k camera decisions in-line with budgets and priorities
• Forecasting demand for high resolution content and understanding the creative possibilities
• Costing 4k - evaluating set-up costs in the creation of a high resolution workflows
• Overcoming technical challenges in 4k to ensure your project is delivered on-time and within budget
• Managing data efficiently and ensuring a secure workflow environment
• Post production in 4k - minimising costs and examining your options

Lunch and networking

PRESENTATION

Developing cost-effective, efficient workflows for multiplatform distribution

CASE STUDY

Designing fit-for-purpose workflows for on-demand platforms

PRESENTATION

Lion Country: successful designing and implementing an end-to-end file based XD workflow

• Making key technology investments and tackling systems integration
• Evaluating the impact of shooting overseas on your workflow design
• Considering post production options and the evolution of simultaneous editing options
• Ensuring your project is delivered within time and budget constraints
• Tackling problems encountered in production and considering what the team would do differently next time
  

Afternoon refreshments

PRESENTATION

Overcoming technical challenges in archive digitisation

• Choosing content worth digitising - does the value in a digitised archive warrant the investment?
• Making key technology decisions and choosing appropriate asset management systems
• Evaluating format considerations in the creation of a fully digitised archive
• Overcoming technical hurdles in repurposing archive content for HD distribution
• Examining metadata concerns and designing a fit-for-purpose archive
  

Effective metadata capture in the field - do you do it, how do you do it and what tools do you use?

• Dealing with organisation issues on metadata updates – who should enter and maintain editorial metadata?
• Enforcing quality of metadata throughout the production chain
• Maintaining the integrity of metadata through the production chain
• Utilising metadata to help automate key processes such as rights clearance
• Using metadata in delivery and production
  

The Future of news: creating agile workflows to meet the multiplatform demands of news distribution

Chair’s closing remarks and close of conference