About DavidS

Having worked for two major broadcasters and being responsible for the post production facilities on a technical side David understands the high level of service and deadlines that need to achieved in the media industry. After joining root6 in 2008 he's looked after numerous projects which include broadcasters expanding and moving premises along with broadcasters changing the core systems they work with. During these times he's been on hand to assist and ensure there have been no surprises!

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Posted on August 11, 2014 by DavidS

Venice has the ability to take base-band video being fed into the Venice channels, create ‘Avid media’, write this directly to the ISIS storage and check the clip onto Interplay from where the Interplay uses can start using the ingesting … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, Products, root6 | Tagged avid, DVS, ingest, Interplay, media composer, playout, VENICE | Leave a comment

Posted on August 7, 2014 by DavidS

Venice now has the added functionality of allowing DPP AS-11 workflows to take place-using Venice. Play-out of DPP AS-11 packages – Once the DPP AS-11 package has been created you can use one of the Venice channels in play-out mode … Continue reading →

Posted in Products, root6 | Tagged AS11, DPP, DVS, playout, VENICE | Leave a comment

Posted on August 7, 2014 by DavidS

Avid announced Media | Director at NAB earlier this year, Media | Director is a media ingest module for the Media Suite which speeds up file-based workflows within the Interplay Production environment to help orchestrate the process of ingesting media … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, Products, root6 | Tagged avid, ingest, Interplay, media director, workflow | Leave a comment

Posted on August 7, 2014 by DavidS

Adobe Anywhere was released back in the last part of 2012 allowing editors to work collaboratively and access shared media across standard networks virtually anywhere they have internet connectivity.  Since the launch the Anywhere team have been working hard and … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 10, 2014 by DavidS

Rohde & Schwarz DVS have really embraced IMF and created a great set of tools within the latest release of Clipster. IMF (Interoperable Master Format) is a framework of assets which make up a program master, within the framework you … Continue reading →

Posted in NAB2014, Products | Tagged Clipster, DVS, IMF, R&S | Leave a comment

Posted on April 9, 2014 by DavidS

Front Porch Digital gave the first showing of their new initiative, DISTILL,  it’s impressive. DISTILL is a simple but powerful web based application which allows you to deal with all types of metadata during any stage of the contents life-cycle. … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 9, 2014 by DavidS

MTI have released a self-contained portable dailies solution. The on-set, liquid cooled for quiet operation hosts 12TB of SSD storage, with an integrated camera card reader, thunderbolt along with 4K outputs via HDMI and SDI. Blog this! Recommend on Facebook … Continue reading →

Posted in NAB2014, Products | Tagged 4K, carryon, correct, dailies, DRS nova, MTI | Leave a comment

Posted on April 8, 2014 by DavidS

XenData are showing their well established archiving software with an alternative to LTO tape. Blog this! Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend Related Posts:LTFS, having a go … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 8, 2014 by DavidS

The SpycerBox Cell joins the existing SpycerBox family with the focus on high-density and redundancy. Blog this! Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend Related Posts:“Ask Us Anything” … Continue reading →

Posted in NAB2014, Products | Tagged 2K, 4K, 8K, DVS, HD, NAB2014, R&S, SAN, SpycerBox, storage | Leave a comment

Posted on June 14, 2013 by DavidS

A great document has been produced by Apple expelling what goes on within the entire software stack, it covers items like: App Nap, this puts applications that you’re not using into a special low-power state. Sandboxes, ensuring that processes are … Continue reading →

Posted in Opinion, tips | Tagged apple, osx, unix | Leave a comment

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