VRT-medialab

10/09/2008 from 9:30 until 1:00 te Amsterdam

VRT-medialab is participating in this year’s IBC, which opens in Amsterdam, September 11th. We will give presentations at the conference and display our own stand at the exhibit (stand 12E.A43). We will show important results of the Pisa project, with respect to both drama and news production. We will also show solutions for multimedial back-office architectures.
read more on the demos…
read more on the presentations…

VRT-medialab is participating in this year’s IBC, which opens in Amsterdam, September 11th. We will give presentations at the conference and display our own stand at the exhibit (stand 12E.A43). We will show important results of the Pisa project, with respect to both drama and news production. We will also show solutions for multimedial back-office architectures.
read more on the demos…
read more on the presentations…

VRT-medialab at the exhibition
stand 12E.A43 in hall 12E

At the exhibition, VRT-medialab is demonstrating how intelligent analysis of existing information in file-based production workflows can result in the creation of new consumer-applications without imposing any additional burden on the production processes.

Most broadcasters distribute several news bulletins daily, containing a limited number of items and restricted in duration. While this is suitable for conventional broadcast, it doesn’t meet the expectations of news consumers using alternative channels (eg, internet) or devices (eg, handhelds). Furthermore, the vroadcaster discards a lot of material that doesn’t fit the conventional news format. VRT-medialab is demonstrating a proof-of-concept application enabling a news consumer to compose and consume his own personalised news bulletin. He can select and sort his preferred news categories, choose to receive material that was not yet broadcast, limit the duration and watch the news offline. This is realised by analysing existing information (like NewsML-G2) and without changing production processes.

This demonstration was created in collaboration with our IBBT-partners as part of the PISA project.

VRT-medialab at the conference

Robbie De Sutter: Automatic News Production in the session “News & Sports”, Friday 12 september 14:00.
Luk Overmeire: Challenges for file-based HD production in the session “Tapeless infrastructures” (theme: “Content Production”), Sunday 14 september 11:30.
Maarten Verwaest (and Philippe Bekaert): A multi-touch 3D set modeler for drama production.