Merging AAF / MXF Audio Workflow Goes Live a Télévision
Suisse
July 19, 2010
Source: Merging Technologies
RTS Production & Post-production
Completes The Switch To Pyramix & VCube
Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR), Télévision
Suisse Romande (TSR), the national French-language TV broadcaster
in Switzerland, has completed its transition to a tapeless,
MXF/AAF-centered production and post-production workflow using
Merging Technologies equipment in its audio post-production
department: Pyramix digital audio workstations, VCube non-linear
video playback units and Luxor media servers.
The company, part of the Swiss French-language broadcasting
division of Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), began
planning a move to a tapeless MXF-based production workflow
back in 2004 under the responsibility of project manager,
Claude Mex, who was then replaced in 2007 by Jean-Christophe
Liechti.
Two years later (2006), the new audio post-production department,
to whom Merging supplied equipment consisting of 10 Pyramix
DAWs, 10 VCube video player/recorders and 2 Luxor servers,
was operating reliably and efficiently on an OMF-based workflow.
This year (2010), RTS was ready to take the next step up in
terms of interoperability, and switched the whole workflow
to MXF and AAF.
All of the Pyramix and VCube systems at RTS have been updated
to the latest 6.2 and 2.2 versions, and the same level of
productivity has been seamlessly achieved.
Over the past three years, a strong collaboration evolved
between TSR and Merging to bring VCube to the level of a reference
tool in the broadcaster’s workflow. VCube is now used
as a MXF player and as a wrapping tool, combining mixed audio
to video in a MXF container at four times the real-time speed
or more.
“We have a good relationship with the Merging team, and
they have been quick to respond to our needs for a tool making
MXF files compliant to our file-based production,” explains
Thierry Bonvin, head of post-production at TSR. “We’ve
just received a new VCube 2.2 in a new PC, and we can now
wrap at close to ten times the speed we could before. What
more can I say?”.
“We are proud to announce that Merging’s systems
at TSR are fully installed, tested and working, and that the
whole TSR post-production workflow upgrade to MXF is now complete”,
adds Pierre Laporte, Merging’s International Sales Manager.
The next step for RTS is the adaptation of the audio production
and post-production workflow for high-definition broadcast,
which should happen next year. "The Merging infrastructure
now in place at TSR is already more than capable of HD operation,
so this will be a reasonably straightforward transition,”
concludes Dominique Brulhart, Merging's Head of Software Engineering.
“Initial tests and validation have shown perfect compatibility
between the various HD-capable elements at TSR and Merging
equipment on a workflow based around AAF, MXF and MPEG2-HD
Long GOP formats."
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