Five years ago, my very first blog entry explored how cloud-based asset management might change television production. Now, on the heels of NAB 2016, it’s a great time to revisit this topic.
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You could not attend the NAB show without being blown over by the exploding number of purported solutions for content creation and distribution operations in the cloud: content storage, collaborative editing and graphics creation, traffic, play-out, and even switcher control panels connected via IP back to their mainframes at headquarters. It is becoming possible to have the entire process, short of the camera itself, somewhere other than where the talent is.