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[...]... Figure Intro.1 depicts the two domains of interest to us and their all important overlap As the workflows, methods, and technology of the IT world and those of traditional video mix and combine, compelling new formulations emerge The IT sphere consists of domain experts plus all the standard infrastructure and systems that make up IT However, the traditional time-based media sphere consists of domain experts,... x Understanding the forces causing the migration toward networked media Appreciating the basics of networked media Evaluating a video system’s architectures, reliability, and scalability Understanding the fundamentals of networking, data servers, storage systems, data archive, and security as applied to networked media Comprehending the fundamental industry standards that apply to IT and AV infrastructures... invasion of IT into their space So who are the target readers for this book? x x IT professionals—Domain experts, system administrators, directors, system engineers, security managers, CIOs, and support staff AV media professionals—Domain experts, chief engineers, VPS of Engineering, engineering managers, directors, systems integrators, design engineers, maintenance staff, technicians, facility planners,... Evaluating the trends for networked media solutions and technology Providing insight into software platforms and their trade-offs Learning the support and maintenance themes for these hybrid systems Knowing what questions to ask of potential equipment suppliers Reducing the FUD3 and social uneasiness that surround IT/ AV systems For sure, the information in this book concentrates more on IT in the context... facilities There are countless applications of the concepts in the list just given and many are described in the course of the book We will concentrate on the subset that is the realm of the professional (and prosumer) media producer Figure 1.1 illustrates the domain of the general professional video system whether digital or not 2 If you are not familiar with traditional AV techniques, consider reviewing... guaranteed accurate 7 1 Networked Media in an IT Environment 8 What are the advantages? No QA process steps—or very short ones— delay cut from days to minutes and guaranteed delivery (not lost or stuck in shipment) to end user All in all, file transfer improves the workflow of making a copy and distribution of a program in meaningful ways The walls of the traditional video facility are crumbling and the. .. Toward Networked Media (3D) effects, noise filtering, compositing, compressing video (ala MPEG), and other mathematically intensive operations in real time or faster It is only getting easier to manipulate digital video, which will consign traditional video circuits to a smaller and smaller part of the overall system Running CPUs in parallel, in one manner or another, increases the total processing power... power of the software applications produced by either of these environments Also, their flexibility (well-documented, open programming interfaces) will allow for software enhancements to be made to meet changing business needs Softwarebased systems allow for great flexibility in creating and changing workflows Older non -IT- based AV systems can be rigid in their topology IT frees us to create almost any... more/better/less, the technology selection is key The following sections examine this aspect Of course, there are issues with the transition to the IT/ AV environment from the comfortable world of traditional A/V video All is not peaches and cream The so-called move to IT has lots of baggage The following sections focus on the positive workflow-related benefits of the move to IT However, in Chapter 10, there are... Network Infrastructure & Bandwidth CPU Power (OPS) System IQ User Application Functionality Interoperability (Standards, Metcalfe’s Law) FIGURE Storage Density Bandwidth Power Software Architectures Manageability Eight forces enabling the new IT/ AV infrastructure 1.3 The Perfect Video System The late itinerant Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos developed the idea Snapshot of The book of mathematical proofs” . v 7 Media Systems Integration 315 8 Security for Networked AV Systems 367 9 Systems Management and Monitoring 401 10 The Transition to IT: Issues and Case. professionals, IT is framed in the context of AV systems, i.e., in what ways can IT help do my job better. For IT professionals, AV is framed in the context of IT systems,