Signiant’s Digital Media Galaxy

In episode two of the Digital Media Galaxy podcast, Tom Ohanian elaborates on why central management of digital media distribution workflows is an absolute requirement for effective collaboration and coordination in the the entertainment industry’s production ecosystem. We welcome your feedback. Please email editor@digitalmediagalaxy.com or post a comment on our blog at www.digitalmediagalaxy.com

 

 DMG #2: Central management [23:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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I was blown away by this article in Broadcast Engineering which rather dryly notes:
Implementation of dual-link 3Gb/s distribution methods for 1080 60p would reduce the capacity of an existing HD infrastructure by 50 percent. SMPTE has issued 3Gb/s standards (424M, 425M) that can be used for intrafacility 1080 60p SDI distribution over a single coax [...]

Ever since yesterday, when Tom and I recorded the first Digital Media Galaxy podcast, I’ve been thinking hard about the challenges he discussed in that episode.
Then, today, I ran across this story in Broadcast Engineering.
The predictions of what’s going to happen (30Mb/sec in the home!) in the short term has gotta make the harried production [...]

Our initial podcast is now online. We hope you like it…and that you’ll let us know what you think. We had originally intended for the podcast to be about 10 minutes. But, as you’ll hear, we had so much to say, we ran for about 30 minutes. That tells us there’s a lot more we [...]

 

 DMG #1: file-based workflows [29:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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Frequent readers of blogs always seek out the first post to see what the blog’s intent is. If it catches their fancy…well, the blogger might get lucky and get a subscriber.
Bloggers really sweat these first posts: What if it stinks? What if I don’t have real content to deliver regularly that would make people take [...]