Interesting interview at BroadcastNewsroom.com with Frank Governale, Vice President, News Technology & Broadcast Operations at CBS about their progress and plans for digital-only video for their news operations.
...and it's not just the technicians and the people who conventionally edited, it's the writers who we're going to ask to be able to cut their own voice-overs; it's the producers that we're going to ask be able to put together EDLs [edit decision lists], or at least these "pitch reels", as we call them, to cull some of the material before it actually gets into the finishing rooms. We want to keep the high-powered rooms as efficient as possible, doing things that they need to do versus some of the simpler stuff that can be done elsewhere.
[Thanks unmediated.org]
Posted by jackhodgson at September 20, 2004 07:17 AM