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Audio technology & the culture of audio post production

This, the final episode in the series, is a wrap-up of where we stand today with motion picture and television audio workflows.

How have changes in technology changed the lives of audio professionals?

Are the technologies being adapted to suit the needs of sound designers and editors? Are people having to adjust the way they work to get the best out of powerful and sophisticated production systems?

Have the fundamental rules of cinema and television sound changed?

What’s happened to the culture of audio post production?

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Audio formats and media wrappers explored

Programme four examines changes in ADR recording and editing technology.

This programme also looks at the complicated and confusing world of formats and media wrappers, as well as server-based workflows.

We also hear what is being done to combat piracy of audio elements during postproduction.

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Searching for a place to snooze during IBC

Although we were in the middle of one of the busiest trade shows on the planet, John Purcell did what any sane person would do on a Sunday afternoon.

He went in search of the ideal place to take a load off, grab forty winks and re-charge his batteries.

With so much going on and the exhibition halls so packed and busy, where could the tired Texan find to slip off his shoes, curl up and have a well-earned nap?

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Multi-track recordings in picture editing & beyond

This episode focuses on how multitrack recordings are used in picture editing and how these decisions are passed on to the audio department.

We also investigate how sound crews keep track of the endless last-minute picture changes that are now quite common.

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Inside An OB Truck At Last!

John Purcell fulfils a secret ambition he's previously been too cool to realise.

He becomes an OB groupie and tours a monster television production unit with Euroscena Chief Engineer Fabrizio Galeti.

The Euroscena Mobile Production Centre 34 - MPC34 HD for short - built by Thomson/Grass Valley at their Rennes facility, can operate with as many as 50 cameras, though, as it's name suggests, 34 is the usual capacity.

MPC 34 HD is a mobile production village. Italian design throughout and an opulent VIP / presentation area make this a stand-out facility for use on productions at major events.

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Browser-based Technology For Managing Content

Ruth Knight is Sales & Marketing Director of Vyre.

She talks to Colin Birch about their Unify technology, which eye-i selected to power the Radio IBC website.

It's a flexible, easy-to-use toolkit that big brand names, including Sony, Diageo and Lowe Worldwide employ to build rich media environments via a web-based interface.

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Modern sound recording techniques

Programme two starts at the beginning of motion picture workflow - modern sound recording techniques – and looks at how changes in technology affect workflow down the line.

Also examined in this programme are the changes in methodology brought on by high definition cinematography and high resolution sound recordings.

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Audio workflows and how changes are affecting professionals

The technology of motion picture sound has changed radically, but what has happened to the way the work is done?

This first of five programmes investigates the ways audio workflows have changed: the causes, the impact upon sound professionals and the ways that craftspeople are coping.

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Behind the scenes with a D-cinema audio system

From our Radio IBC production area behind the stage of the main auditorium we were able to witness the construction of a massive surround sound system for use in conference sessions and screenings.

The technology really came into its own during the screening of clips from U2 3D and the whole of Ratatouille.

Lured by the Low Frequency Effects that seeped their way into our environment, Dan McGraw's curiosity got the better of him and he went to ask what they were using.

Terry Nelson, who led the team building the sound system, was only too happy to fill Dan in with the details.

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WiMAX & the Wireless LAN backbone infrastructure

Ariel Zur, Director of Sales, WiNetworks.

WiMAX has been in the news a lot over the past 12 months with a number of US telcos setting up new networks. Sprint Nextel announced last year that they were investing US$ 5 billion in a WiMAX mobile buildout over the next few years. One of the benefits of WiMAX is a more predictable way of sharing the available bandwidth between many devices. Our reporter John Howard spoke with Ariel Zur, Director of Sales of WiNetworks about the benefits he saw of WiMAX.

Mac-based broadcasting applications from Softron

Softron Media Services are one of a growing number of small companies developing broadcasting applications on the Apple Macintosh. John Howard went along to the stand in hall five to speak to the CEO Daniel Tapie.

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Digital Cinema at IBC 2007

in this, the fifth programme of the 2007 series, David Monk, CEO of the European Digital Cinema Forum and D-Cinema Day theme day producer at IBC 2007 talks about the rise and rise of stereoscopic 3D.

The IBC 2007 theme day was to prove a valuable forum for anybody interested in the business, trechnical and creative challenges facing the cinema as it grapples with the third dimension.

Steve Norris, MD of respected Soho post production company Framestore|CFC, and a former UK Film Commissioner and his Visual Effects Director colleague, Tim Webber give their view on where stereoscopic 3D might, and might not, find an audience.

David Hancock of Screen Digest gives a cinema business analyst's perspective.

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Media Production at IBC 2007

In the fourth podcast produced ahead of IBC 2007, the subject is media production. The main interview featrures the EBU's David Wood, co-producer of the Media Production theme day schedule.

Peter Wilson, Director of HDDC and Barcud Derwen's Technical Director, Steve Cowin also discuss the state of the media production sector in 2007.

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Terry Gilliam discusses his film 'Tideland'

In February 2007, on the eve of its UK DVD release, Terry Gilliam attended a screening of his film 'Tideland' at the University of Hertfordshire's De Havilland campus. The event was hosted by FDMX and organised in conjunction with Revolver Films.

Following the screening, Terry was interviewed by independent consultant and former FilmFour Head of Development, Kate Leys and took questions from the audience of film students.

Here's the interview and Q & A in full.

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A new dimension in business process management

Ceiton's browser-based application takes collaborative working on complex projects into a new dimension. The third one...

Complex design & build or implementation projects should be easier to manage, now we have access to sophisticated, affordable and easy-to-use technologies. The internet and networked communications are the obvious tools to turn to when groups of people need to find a way to communicate effectively and get the job done more efficiently.

When he visited their booth at IBC 2007, Ceiton's web-based process and project management software was like a breath of fresh air to digital asset management and business process consultant and Radio IBC contributor Dan McGraw.

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