A comprehensive review of craft editing options has seen the BBC to renew its commitment to Sadie with 50 licenses for the recently released Sadie 6 editing software. These will be installed at BBC North and will be in use by August, 2011.
The broadcaster is streamlining the range of tools that it will support internally for its radio programme makers, and has selected Sadie as the standard ‘Craft Editor’ for audio to complement its radio production and playout automation systems.
The Craft Editor specification required a number of feature enhancements for the software, including the integration of a signal processing plug-in package – met by the iZotope plug-in pack for Sadie 6. In addition, Sound has developed a USB interface for Sadie 6 that will support the broadcaster’s 200-plus Sadie hardware controllers. This will enable re-use rather than replacement of the controllers.
‘We understand that, as a result of its evaluation of craft editing solutions, Sadie 6 is now the standard professional audio craft editor provided and supported by the BBC,’ says Prism Sound Sales Director, Graham Boswell. ‘We are delighted that our product was able to fulfil the broadcaster’s requirements.’
A key part of the decision to select Sadie 6 was the integration Prism Sound and Sadie have with VCS Media Broadcast, which has already been awarded the framework contract to provide its VCS Dira! playback automation system to the broadcaster. ‘We have cooperated with VCS on a number of projects in the past and we fully expect this collaboration to continue,’ Boswell says. ‘Both VCS and Sadie are focused on productivity and this is what makes the two company’s product ranges such a natural fit. As part of our on-going development work, we are now looking at ways in which we can meet future requirements for all broadcasters, for example support for meta-data propagation and 64-bit Windows 7.’
Sadie digital audio workstations and LRX2 digital audio workstations have long been a mainstay of the broadcast community. The Sadie range is known for its speed and ease-of-use, making it popular in radio drama production and news, where the emphasis is on a quick turnaround. The Sadie 6 software operates on any computer running Microsoft Windows as well as existing Sadie 5 hardware platforms.
‘Sadie has been a craft editing system for many international broadcasters since 1991, and was developed as the ultimate solution for a fast editing workflow on complex programmes and soundscapes,’ Sadie Broadcast Consultant Pete Nash adds. ‘Sadie 6 has not only built on this legacy, but has added a host of new workflow-related tools, including native operation and vastly improved VST plug-in capabilities, advancing the creative workflow even further.’
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