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High standards: live production and the move to IP

Improved standards are helping to drive the migration of live production to IP and the cloud, whilst greater personalisation, extended coverage and higher-quality video all remain high on the wish list.

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Behind the Scenes: Gladiator II

In a world of green screen and AI, the sets for Gladiator II might be the last great build in movies.

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TAMS: fulfilling the promise of IP interoperability

The transition to IP using SMPTE 2110 has been broadly successful in a studio environment but interoperability in the live and near live domain still has work to go. A recent innovation from the BBC could provide the answer.

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Behind the scenes: Joker: Folie à Deux

Behind the scenes - Joker: Folie à Deux

Editor Jeff Groth asks for the film to be judged on its artistic merits and explains his process with flashbacks, story cards and musical numbers.

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Co-piloting the Olympics: “human-centric AI” as a creative partner

Olympic Channel Services created an AI tool to help its editorial team deal with the huge deluge of live content, supporting creative decisions rather than reducing headcount. John Maxwell Hobbs reports.

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Cinematographer Paul Guilhaume shooting Emilia Pérez

Behind the Scenes: Emilia Pérez

Cinematographer Paul Guilhaume explains how a transgender cartel musical is told with magical realism.

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Content Everywhere: meeting the diversity challenge

In last month’s review of key trends at IBC this year, Mark Strachan, chief product officer at Telstra Broadcast Services, made the observation that the media and entertainment industry remains a “very male-dominated industry with more work needed to create change”.

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Project Lantern: TV ads and the outcomes business

In a world where 80% of ad spend goes to outcome-based performance channels, how can TV compete effectively?

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Ben Tatta: “AI will comprehend the context, access the relevant data, perform the necessary analysis, and provide insights or execute the desired actions.”

AI’s evolution in the ad space

AI has the potential to automate point tasks in the existing ad management chain and even to transform the entire way media is transacted.

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SGAI: a new frontier in dynamic ad insertion

The merits of server-guided ad insertion (SGAI) were one of the big ad-tech talking points at this year’s IBC, but does the technology represent a step change for publishers?

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