Podcast: The Workflow Show

Everyone in the media field today looks around and wonders, “What’s in store for me down the road?”

With the hit song from 1969 “In the Year 2525,” blaring throughout our office space for inspiration while planning this episode of The Workflow Show, co-hosts Nick Gold and Merrel Davis decided to limit their predictions to what the realm of video production and post digital workflows will be like in 2020. (With the way the IT & media-related fields are changing, looking out eight years is challenging enough!)

And at the end, they pass along some advice to the wise: stay current with the tech, and be nimble.

episode length: 45:50

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Show Notes:

PlayStation 9 ad for PS2

The definition of RAW files

split screen gaming redefined

Goldeneye

FPS = first-person shooter

Light field camera

GoPro camera

NPR story on civilian drones

Minority Report

skeuomorph definition

Adobe Anywhere

AVID Interplay Sphere – check out our AVID One-on-One Demos

PostWorks in NYC

Instagram app

ARRI Alexa and RED

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Do you get frustrated dealing with what seems like a constant stream of software and hardware upgrades?

Yep, trying to stay on top of upgrades sure can be time-consuming and at times, expensive. And the motto of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is very tempting. We get that. But we also know that there are risks at falling too far behind in versions. Ugly surprises can result – events that can affect your ability to function as a business dramatically.

In this episode, co-hosts Nick Gold and Merrel Davis stress the importance of having an over-arching upgrading plan. When your consider the extent to which your digital media workflow software and hardware are interconnected, “putting your head in the sand” or taking a haphazard approach to upgrading just won’t cut it.

The discussion of this podcast covers upgrade strategies for core and peripheral hardware, backend storage hardware, minor and major operating systems upgrades, and minor and major application upgrades or transitions.

episode length: 38:34

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Show Notes:

Sonnet enclosures for PCIe cards

Equipment Leasing (this gets mentioned in the program — it is a way to purchase high-end gear on an affordable monthly basis, and it offers several advantages, including giving a business a cost-effective way to always have current technology. Contact us to discuss options.)

Adobe Mercury Playback Engine

32 bit vs. 64 bit

Hyper-Threading

The guys also refer back to our episode, “What’s Up with the Mac Pro?“

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In this episode of The Workflow Show, Nick and Merrel interview tech journalist Patrick Roanhouse (left), of Plan8 Media, who shares his “take-aways” from his tour of the recent 2013 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) held in Las Vegas.

Episode length: 53:57

Show Notes:

definition of 4K television

Sony news about downloadable 4K – Pocket-lint.com

In this episode of The Workflow Show, Merrel Davis and Nick Gold discuss the many advantages offered by Adobe’s innovative Creative Cloud for Teams software subscription program, some of which you may not have considered.

Show Length: 35:38

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Show Notes:

Charles Babbage

SpeedGrade

Media 100

Speed Razor

3/4″ U-matic

operating vs. capital expense

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

 

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We are an Adobe Gold Partner, and you can buy Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams from us at Chesapeake Systems. Contact Merrel Davis or Nick Gold. Email them or call 410-752-3406.

Nick and Merrel are also available to discuss any of your other media workflow challenges.

Check out the complete listing of episodes and show notes of The Workflow Show.

In this episode, Nick and Merrel discuss the jaw-dropping audio and video search capabilities offered by two companies, Nexidia and Nervve Technologies.

Keep in mind that we are not talking about metadata search, but search through the actual audio and video contrent of a digital library of footage.

We first learned about Nexidia Dialogue Search at last year’s NAB, and we now are a reseller of the application. We just recently learned of Nervve and saw a demo and once again, were mightily impressed.

In the podcast, the guys discuss various ways these applications could be utilized in digital video workflows. You will hear them request for your ideas as well by emailing us.

BTW, Nexidia will be at NAB. If you would like to setup an appointment for a demo, email us as well.

Show Length: 29:42

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Show Notes:

AVID PhraseFind and ScriptSync

Keep in mind that Nexidia Dialogue Search is not a speech-to-text application. It’s purpose is to search for phonetic matches of the query.

While Nervve can search a library for a face, it should not be confused with facial recognition applications.

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See what we’ll be doing at NAB.

We’ll also be exhibiting at DAM NY, May 2 & 3.

Mike Szumlinski of PVT is well-known and highly-regarded within the IT-centric media systems realm. In our industry, one gravitates towards those who are intellectually sharp, experienced and responsive to customer needs. Mike is that type of guy, and we at Chesapeake have been interfacing with him for nearly a decade. In addition to being a great person, we consider him one of those “added-values” we bring to the table in our role as a media systems integrator.

As an indication of Mike’s savviness in both the tech and business sides, he is the US distributor or representative for a number of select software and hardware firms, some located within the US and others outside. And frankly, for us at Chesapeake, when we learn that Mike is connected with a particular product, it gets very serious consideration to be included within our palette of integration solutions.

In this episode of the The Workflow Show, Nick Gold and Merrel Davis discuss with Mike specifics about four lines that he represents: Cantemo, MediaSilo, Archiware and Sonnet Technologies. We also get Mike’s take on the recently-announced new Mac Pro.

 

Show length: 52:01

All episodes of The Workflow Show can be viewed and subscribed to in iTunes.

Show Notes:

Xbox E3

SD to HD transition

Cantemo Portal

What is the difference between an API and SDK?

MediaSilo

LAN vs. WAN

Archiware

New features in Archiware’s P5

LTO-6

Sonnet

PCIe cards

Butler Film

Red Rocket

new Mac Pro

Cube

optical Thuderbolt cables

Echo Express III

Mike Szumlinski’s blog of “random nuggets” of valuable info: http://provideotech.org/

We welcome your comments below or emailing us directly.

Chesapeake Systems can provide you more information about any of the products mentioned above and assist you with all of your digital video workflow and media systems integration needs. Email us or call 410-752-3406.

This special episode of the The Workflow Show features a panel discussion from our afternoon-long symposium held on July 17 with partners Levels Beyond and Quantum. The event was held at the NYC offices of Quantum.

The topic of the gathering was, “Advanced Video Workflows for Today and Tomorrow.”  We deliberately set it to be a “think tank,” with our audience populated by a select group of clients, prospects and consultants – all interested in learning more about MAM, workflow automation and storage / archive options.

The thrust of the opening panel conversation was to discuss, from a “30,000 foot view,” the current state and future of advanced video workflows. Chesapeake’s Director of Business Development Nick Gold moderated the panel which included Jason Perr, Solution Architecture, Levels Beyond; Scott Morris, Digital Content Consultant / Founder, Greatest Top; and Will McGrath, Strategic Marketing and Technology Partnerships, Quantum.

We believe you will find the discussion to be most insightful and beneficial.

(l-r) Scott Morris, Nick Gold, Jason Perr, Will McGrath

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Show length: 1:12:50

Show Notes:

Digital Rapids

UFC

TouchCast

Videolicious

Montage

Majisto

Telestream (Pipeline, Vantage)

NerVve Technologies

Want to discuss your video workflow challenges with us? Email our ProSales team or call us at 410.752.3406.

 

We start our second season of our podcast series with a fun conversation with our good friend Jeremy Strootman, Senior Outside Sales Manager for the East Coast with media technology distributor, JB&A.

We like working with people who are smart, work hard, and play hard . . . and who don’t take themselves too seriously. The recording session of this premier episode of our second season of The Workflow Show at our “Chesa Church” podcast studio was full of fun bantering back and forth between Jeremy, Nick and Merrel, yet you will find Jeremy’s thoughtful insights about where we are heading in the IT-centric media field to be most incisive.

In the conversation, Jeremy recounts how his IT prowess and position with Studio Network Solutions in St. Louis took him to many of the country’s top audio recording studios . . . and he talks about how the work eventually opened the door for him to migrate to helping to develop unique shared storage challenges for video production.

Jeremy also touches on how ROI drives advances in the field, and he explains why he is sanguine about the future of the media production field.

Watch this brief video clip from the recording of this podcast episode:

 

Remember, you can listen to this and all of The Workflow Show episodes on iTunes.

Episode length: 01:05:26

Show Notes:

JB&A

Dave Helmly of Adobe joins us for this episode of The Workflow Show. Dave is universally recognized as “THE Go-To guy” at Adobe for all things Pro Video and Imaging. And in this episode, he talks at length with co-hosts Nick Gold and Merrel Davis about Adobe’s new Creative Cloud and Adobe Anywhere paradigms.

Any questions you may have about Adobe’s new models will likley be cleared up in this conversation. And of course, if not, we at Chesapeake Systems are a Creative  Cloud for Teams reseller and are available to answer any further queries you may have.

Regardless of your decision to procure Creative Cloud, Adobe Anywhere, you will want to be informed about these new ventures from Adobe since they are truly game-changers within the media industry, and truth-be-told, it’s likely that all media-related software and collaboration will move this way.

The guys close out the episode discussing their outlooks for the new Mac Pro.

Remember, you can listen to this and all of The Workflow Show episodes on iTunes.

Show Notes

Length of episode: 1:19:06
Recorded on Sept. 9, 2013

We recently conducted another of our small group “think tank” digital video workflow symposia in New York City at Quantum’s offices in Lower Manhattan.

We spend a lot of time at Chesapeake Systems talking with our clients about metadata. It’s defintely an extraordinary tool in the world of digital video workflows, but there are some emerging technologies that are allowing us to have an additional set of tools.

Highlighted at this symposium were two search applications that we at Chesapeake are very impressed with, Nexidia and NerVve.

Nexidia is a phonetic search application that can scan a library of literally thousands of hours of footage in seconds. And NerVve is an application that works similarly with video imagery search. Both applications present easy-to-use interfaces, and the results typically “blow-away” first-time users.

What role do these applications play in advanced video workflows? Do they threaten or complement metadata-driven media asset management systems? These are questions addressed by our panel of experts:

Chris Lacinak, Founder and President, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions

Drew Lanham, SVP/GM, Nexidia

Thomas Slowe, CEO, NerVve Technologies

Nick Gold (panel moderator), Director of Business Development, Chesapeake Systems

Chris Lacinak, Tom Slowe, Nick Gold, Drew Lanham

If you are interested in seeing a demo of the Nexidia or NerVve applications, either in person or via web, email Nick Gold or call him at 410.400.8932.

Episode length:  37:34

You can also listen to this and other episodes of The Workflow Show in iTunes.

Again, special thanks to our friends at Quantum for their assistance in facilitating the presentation of this symposium.

Show Notes: