Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1531981
Spring 2025 – LOCAL695.COM 33 Both these companies are well established and regarded entities in their own right. Teradek is best known for its wireless video transmission and live streaming solutions. Their products are widely used throughout the film, television, and live-production industries to provide reliable, high-quality video transport. Their innovations in these areas of tech have made them an industry standard on sets across the globe. Frame.io, on the other hand, is a cloud-based video collaboration platform used to streamline the review and approval process for video content. It allows creative teams to upload, organize, share, and comment on video files in real time for efficient communication and feedback. Since being acquired by Adobe Systems in 2021, the platform has been integrated with the various apps of Adobe's Creative Cloud software suite. The integration of Frame.io and Teradek products offers a game- changing solution for modern production workflows. Together, these tools enable seamless collaboration, reduce latency, and enhance the efficiency of live and post-production processes. by James Delhauer Teradek Prism is a line of high-performance video streaming encoders and decoders designed for real-time video transmission. Boasting low-latency streaming, 4K HDR support, H.265 compression, and a variety of connectivity options, Prism serves as an IP-based streaming multi-tool for based video signals. The device comes in three form factors, each suited to distinct purposes and use cases. The Prism Mobile is a compact module designed to be mounted to the back of a camera unit and connected via either 12G-SDI or HDMI 2.0 in order to stream compressed files directly from the unit to the cloud (though an onboard SD card reader does allow for local capture as well). These units offer either 5G or LTE cellular support, allowing for dual SIM profiles to split upload workloads for sustained real-time streaming regardless of location. This makes signal transmission possible, even in the most challenging of network environments. Devices can be configured locally on the unit itself or can be managed remotely via the network. Teradek + Frame.io —Accelerating Production In the modern day, communication workflows continue to accelerate. Brought about by the globalization of production and changes in the ways that audiences consume content, current projects require an infrastructure that allows both stakeholders and key creatives to collaborate in real time despite potentially residing across multiple time zones. It is now common for teams on multiple continents to put eyes on content mere minutes after it has been shot and, in the case of live events, for that content to be edited, repackaged, and distributed to social media within just a few more minutes of that. That is why Local 695 has partnered with Teradek and Adobe company Frame.io, and on December 11, 2024, held a workshop on accelerating production. This is where it becomes important to understand the role that jurisdiction plays in these discussions. Teradek, as a company, is best known for its array of camera peripherals. Local 695 does not hold any jurisdiction within the camera department itself and therefore is not permitted to physically set up camera accessories. This is true even in the case of wireless video transmitters or cloud transmission tools that directly facilitate work that does fall within our jurisdiction, such as video playback and off-camera recording. However, once a device attached to a camera joins a wireless network, responsibility for network configuration and video engineering processes should be managed by a Local 695 member. Similarly, once a signal has been transmitted from the device, that signal and its continued use in the production pipeline fall into video engineer territory and Local 695's jurisdiction on set.