Avid announced that coverage of the 2016 Cannes International Film Festival was powered by the Avid MediaCentral Platform. Avid Elite partner VIDELIO – Cap’Cine once again provided production and post-production facilities for broadcasters Canal+ and Orange, and for the official Festival de Cannes TV and web content.
Two Avid AirSpeed | 5500 servers were at the heart of operations, streamlining the entire workflow from capture to playout. These two servers enabled the acquisition of clean and dirty feeds, which were sent in real time to an Avid ISIS | 5500 collaborative storage system. The content was available immediately to editors working on Avid Media Composer editing stations, creating highlights packages, trailers and short programmes, which were then sent back to the AirSpeed | 5500 for playout. The media was also made available to an FTP platform for web editors creating content for the official Festival de Cannes website, YouTube and Dailymotion channels, as well as the festival archive.
The Avid solution enabled the production team to work on and save the footage in HD, with images available in real time. In addition, the integrated playlist tool and IsoSync (a synchronisation application of multi-channel recordings) offered a simple and effective workflow for operators. The Avid workflow ran continuously throughout the festival.
For more information visit the Avid website.
