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www.postmagazine.com 21 POST FEBRUARY 2018 REALITY TV know how long it's going to take to complete these types of rooms," says Pisnieski. "We have some very late nights that run to three and four in the morning. That leaves my team scrambling the next day to ingest as fast as possible." All of the video work for Trading Spaces takes place at Authentic Entertainment in Burbank. This includes ingest, editorial, color and finish- ing. Audio is the only service that is handled out of house. Wild Woods Picture & Sound (http:// wwoods.com) collaborates with Authentic on many of its unscripted programs, including Flipping Out, Cake Masters and Toddlers & Tiaras. The studio handles the mix for Trading Spaces. Authentic is home to 48 edit bays and another 12 assistant editors stations, half of which are used to ingest media. The studio uses DaVinci Resolve for color correction and creating looks for the company's different shows. "Creative director Mark LaFleur works closely with our colorist and designs a look for each of our projects," says Pisnieski. "This show, I would say the colors are very saturated. They pop. If you've seen the show, you know they are wearing these pastel uniforms. We want all of those to play bright and playful on-camera." Trading Spaces is edited exclusively using Avid systems. There are four dedicated editors to the show and they'll leapfrog each other as episodes enter the post workflow. Two dedicated assistant editors also help out. "With Discovery, you also have to do interna- tional segments…so they jump in with that," says Pisnieski of the editorial team. "There are some additional graphic deliverables, like picture-in-pic- ture teases that appear during commercial breaks. It's kind of all-hands-on-deck, but I would say there is a dedicated team of four editors, two assistant editors, and then you have the post management team." Pisnieski says the editing team is using "an incredible software called Group It For Me. Once my team syncs up the footage, they can send it through the Group It For Me program and within minutes, you are getting back all of the sub-clips that you need to create the multicam groups." A 300TB Facilis TerraBlock provides storage for the show, and StorageDNA software is used to archive media to LTO-7 tape. The eight-episode run, he estimates, will reach 75TBs. "Typically, by morning when my team comes in, the software has sent a verification email letting us know it has all been archived," says Pisnieski of the StorageDNA backup. "We then do a quick check and make sure everything looks good, and then we delete everything from the previous eve- ning and start again with the new media. We are never really keeping 75TBs of media online on a server at a particular time. We are just keeping the proxies." — By Marc Loftus N BC's THE VOICE NBC's hit reality/competition show The Voice, currently in its 14 th season, has been crowning outstanding vocalists as winners since 2011. The four-time Emmy award-winning series, which airs on Monday and Tuesday nights, is a pre- sentation of MGM Television, Talpa Media USA Inc., Warner Horizon Unscripted & Alternative Television. It was created by John de Mol, who serves as executive producer, along with Mark Burnett, Audrey Morrissey, Lee Metzger, Chad Hines, Amanda Zucker, Kyra Thompson and Stijn Bakkers, and stars Carson Daily as host, country singer Blake Shelton and Maroon 5 rocker Adam Levine as coaches, as well as two additional re- volving coach positions that began with Christina Aguilera and CeeLo Green, and whose red chairs have since been occupied by Gwen Stefani, Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, Usher, Shakira, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson and most currently, pop superstar Kelly Clarkson. Viewers at home watch as contestants audition in front of the four judges, whose backs are facing Four editors and two assistants cut Trading Spaces. GoPros and DJI's Osmo are also used to capture footage.