BBC Post Production is to launch a facility to cater for factual and learning programming in November 2003. The facility will provide both BBC and external production teams with more flexibility in their post production workflows, enabling more streamlined ways of working and potential cost savings, all within a newly designed, comfortable and inspiring environment.
The facility will allow production teams to use new working methods including direct to online editing. Fourteen Avid Media Composer Adrenaline systems are being installed which feature new technology that allows material to be ingested from different formats and mixed on the same timeline. Production teams will have the flexibility to choose to either edit at online resolution or use the traditional offline-conform-online editing route.
In addition, the system offers enhanced effects capabilities, including the ability to animate multiple layers as well as a draft mode to easily preview and refine the final look. The Adrenalines will be linked to the Avid Unity MediaNetwork system allowing teams to work simultaneously on the same material. With an initial storage capacity of 5.7 Terrabytes, production teams will be able to keep their programmes as current as possible.