During production, dailies are digitized and stored on the Teresis Media Library where they are accessible and searchable via Internet browser. Transcribers create HTML documents with hyperlinks to the digital video; the documents are stored along with the video on the central server. In this way, story editors can call up the transcription documents and have immediate access to the video by clicking on the hot links. Documents can also be exported for word processing, and important factor for writers. The system’s “great search tools” provide fast access to the transcript and its associated video. “Writers and producers love that!” Rice declares.
Now, story producers and editors on I Wanna Be A Soap Star, which has a shooting ration of about 200:1, have gained the ability “to work with huge amounts of material much more efficiently,” he notes. The show is offlined on Avid Media Composers and onlined on a Symphony Nitris in-house.
LMNO has seen its business “explode” in the last year. It has approximately 20 programs inproduction and several more in development, Rice reports. As a result, the company is in the market for more editing gear to handle the parallel boom in post production.
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Posting Reality: I Wanna Be A Soap Star
Excerpt of an article by Christine Bunish
Encino’s LMNO Productions, a provider of reality and documentary programming fornetwork, cable and syndicated television, has established a tapeless, all-digital post workflow for all of its shows, including I Wanna Be A Soap Star for SoapNet, What’s With That House? For HGTV and National Body Challenge and Lance Armstrong: Running for Life for Discovery Health.
The company uses Teresis Production Asset Management (PAM) to eliminate thousands of VHS screeners normally used for viewing and transcribing reality-based programs. It also makes LMNO’s media available to anyone it chooses, anywhere in the world. “If you’ve got an Internet connection, you can get your dailies and your transcripts,” says senior VP of post production Jeff Rice. “Always looking for a better and more efficient way to do things,” LMNO thought PAM “would complement the way we work instead of forcing us into their workflow.”
