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As media operations continue
their migration from baseband
SDI to packet-based Internet
Protocol (IP) workflows, opera-
tors and system engineers are
rethinking their approach to vir-
tually every aspect of produc-
tion. The potential benefits of
IP are highly compelling, but
they can only be realized if
all production elements – from
servers, routers, and switchers
to cameras and prompting sys-
tems – can work together in a
tightly integrated and seamless
way. tion workflows.
Sometimes overlooked, prompt-
ing is nonetheless a broadcast
essential that should be care-
fully considered in any forward-
looking production studio driv-
en by an IP infrastructure. While
some form of prompting has
been around since the dawn
of television, computer-based
prompters lately haven’t kept
pace with the rapid changes
transforming the broadcast
industry. For IP-based pro-
duction facilities to succeed,
prompting systems will have to
be brought into the new world
of packet-based signal distribu- Intelligent Monitors
For IP-based
At Autoscript, that premise
was our launching point as we
set out to define a next-gen-
eration prompting system for
the IP age. What might this
solution look like? What are the
essential characteristics of an
IP prompting solution, and how
does such a solution fit into a
broader production workflow?
In this article, we’ll take you
inside our thought process as
we designed our IP prompting
solution.
production facilities to
succeed, prompting
systems will have to be
brought into the new
world of packet-based
signal distribution
workflows.
Defining IP-based prompting
requires much more than a
simple software or hardware
upgrade to existing solutions;
it demands a system-wide
approach. The prompting sys-
tem must fit seamlessly into
the fully networked and geo-
graphically dispersed IP pro-
duction facilities that are now
under development in many
parts of the world.
An important aspect of this
“networkability” is the signifi-
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