STRATEGY LEADS Wang Yin (left) and PT Alagan
(right) from Mediacorp
Qvest’s cloud-based video editing solution is allowing Mediacorp’s newsroom in Singapore to work more flexibly and efficiently than ever before
ince the first pandemic- related lockdowns in 2020, there has been no shortage of fascinating stories about the impact Covid-19 has had on broadcast and
years beforehand,” confirms Hans Baumgaertner, solutions owner for cloud editing, VDI and post-production at Qvest, the company responsible for ushering Mediacorp into a new era of flexible editing. “It was fortuitous that when they approached us in spring 2020 to get involved, we’d already been working on a remote editing solution that supports more efficient and highly collaborative workflows.” The project continued a successful partnership between Mediacorp and Qvest that began when the latter was engaged to provide integration expertise to Mediacorp’s one-north digital media hub development that was finalised and taken into operation in 2016. This time, the focus was on the Mediacorp-owned Channel News Asia (CNA) service. Producers had become
media workflows. In particular, the need for presenters and production staff to be able to work away from the broadcast centre – be it at home or out in the field – with the same effectiveness became more acute than ever. This has led many organisations towards implementing a more flexible, cloud-based model moving forwards. But in the case of Singapore- based Mediacorp, the conversation around remote editing was already well underway. “They had already been thinking conceptually about this kind of development for three
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