The NAB Engineering Handbook is billed as “the definitive resource guide for broadcast engineers.” While some book publishers might be guilty of a little hyperbole, that’s clearly not the case here. The forthcoming 11th edition, now available for pre-order, is a hefty tome of over 2,100 pages and covers virtually every topic that broadcast engineers and technical managers need to understand.For us …
In the 30 plus years from the mid-1980s to now, tapeless or file-based workflows have moved from being an expensive high-end niche application to being the default solution for professional video production and broadcast. So, what’s next? Well at NAB this year we’ll be hearing a lot about how hybrid cloud-based workflows are the next big thing. Let’s look at why cloud-based solutions are …