Production

Goals

The goals for this Strategic Programme are defined in the current EBU T&I Workplan 2019-2022 (updated early 2021) and can be summarized as follows:

• Assist Members in developing and using efficient production workflows
• Enable adaptable production workflows for audio, video and data
• Provide guidance on cloud-based production and newsroom systems
• Study processing for multi-versioned content for live and non-live applications
• Identify the evolution of post-production, news systems and archive systems
• Enable Members to transition toward UHDTV, including High Dynamic Range (HDR)
• Enable Members to transition to personalised sound experiences
• Promote the use of EBU R 128 and the use of new tools and metadata in Radio Production
• Improve accessibility though “Seeing, Hearing, Participating and Understanding” personalised services
• Continue to promote the use of R 128 for loudness control across all content, platforms and devices
• Leverage Artifical Intelligence (AI) to support all aspects of content production including the areas of:
  • Fake News detection
  • STT Benchmarking
  • Serverless Cloud workflows
• Ensure knowledge sharing of the topics of metadata, machine learning, and computing architecture
• Investigate cloud agnostic microservice frameworks for media
• Ensure and improve the end-user Quality of Experience
• Provide a common Quality Control language and a database of QC terms and templates
• Study sustainability in production and develop recommendations and best practice

Project groups

• Hybrid & Cloud-based Production

Accessibility & Sustainability

• Timed Text
• Sustainability for PSM
• Green Production

Audio

• Audio Systems and workflows (personalised sound experiences, radio production and loudness)

Data & AI

• AI and Automatic Metadata Extraction
• AI Benchmarking
• Media Cloud & Microservices
• Metadata & Artificial Intelligence
• Metadata Models

Video & Quality Control

• Video Systems & Workflows
• UHDTV Strategy Support (click to join)
• HDR Implementation Task Force
• Video Evaluation
• Quality Control

Workflows

• LED Virtual Production
• Newsrooms

Communities of practice

EBU Members are invited to join the following communities to share experiences, including problems and solutions:

• Implementing Open Innovation
• Media Archives
• Metadata Developer Network
• Non-Linear Editing Systems User Group
• TV Anytime User Group

Related initiatives

• AI and Data Initiative (AIDI) – a cross-disciplinary strategic EBU initiative