File-based systems should make life easier, not more complicated. There may be a case, for example, where a real-time HD-SDI transfer between two devices is actually quicker than passing a file ...

Tuning the components for a file-based media operation could be looked at like arranging the instruments of an orchestra. Each element must be finely tuned so the combined output is effective and ...

This paper describes a number of problems of file-based production which arise in practice and demonstrates the techniques used to solve them using real-world examples from BBC productions.