ABC News One Person Operation

Описание: In 2008, the ABC introduced studio automation to all ABC News studios by choosing the Grass valley "Ignite " system. In doing so, the traditional TV News control rooms, which required up to 7 staff, were downsized to one studio director, assisted by automation.

The Grass Valley Ignite is a "station-in-a-box" production system that includes a digital video switcher, audio board, router, digital video cameras, and automation control software.

News footage is shot in the field and recorded on solid-state memory cards within the cameras. Once the video files are ingested into the nonlinear editing workstations back at the studio, editors can immediately begin cutting segments. Finished stories are then loaded into the News rundown using the Ignite system's graphical user interface.

Its important that the News department staff integrate their stories into the system in the right way to avoid glitches, and this discipline makes them meet deadlines better than they ever did before.

The production staff have had to adjust their way of working as well, as proper planning results in fewer technical errors, by adjusting rundowns and developing an even flow or overall theme from among the various news segments.

The Ignite system also holds everyone involved with the news production and broadcast process more accountable for what they do.