CHAMP is a cloud-hosted platform for autonomous media production. It provides flexible, integrated, and collaborative workflows in the cloud using web applications accessible from multiple devices. The platform aims to support both professional and semi-professional media producers. It functions as an open technology ecosystem where providers can offer applications and services to users.

1. CHAMP
Cloud Hosted Autonomous Media Production

2. VRT-MEDIALAB
FILE BASED MEDIA PRODUCTION
- R&D for Flemish media industry
- Expertise centre
- Storage & network
technology
- SOA workflow
orchestration
- File- & compression
formats/standards
- Information
management
- Digital Media Factory @ VRT
- Two spinoffs
- candIT-media
- Limecraft

3. TRENDS IN MEDIA PRODUCTION
Portable cloud Private cloud
Public cloud
- Prosumer devices - Location/network - Crossplatform&Transmedia
transparency
- Digital media consumer
- Professional software - Consistent collaboration
- Integrated, interactive
- Mobile devices - Flexibility w/o complexity advertising
=> Tablets => Cloud => New formats

4. CHAMP PLATFORM
Professional: movies, shows, documentary, advertising, journalism
Semi-professional: promofilms, private productions, citizen
journalism, UGC, social collaboration, crowdsourcing
Flexible, integrated and
collaborative workflows
in the cloud
Open technology platform
“App store” for
Technology service providers
Tech (ecosystem) Facility companies
no Telecom operators
sect logy Media technology providers
or
Academic partners
…

5. CHAMP PLATFORM
Browser on consumer device
(laptop, tablet, smartphone)
Multidevice
webapps Webapp 1 Webapp 2 Webapp 3 Webapp n
…
(HTML5/CSS/JS) e.g. research e.g. on location e.g. annotation
Story interactions
Flexible, integrated and collaborative
workflows in the cloud
Interoperable story information
“App store” for technology service providers
(ecosystem)
User MGMT MAM 1 MAM 2 MAM 3 Storage …
e.g. e.g. stock Management
e.g. LDAP, broadcaster, e.g. music
photography, services, e.g. …
Exchange, … library
news provider Flickr, YouTube Unity ISIS

6. MEDIA WORKFLOWS IN THE CLOUD
High & low resolution workflows
Public cloud Facilitary
“Media data center” company Private
dark fibre
High speed Telco high speed backbone network
hotspots
Private
Telco Consumer network
dark fibre
Personal Production company
Laptops Portable Desktops, Private cloud
& tablets cloud laptops & tablets (WoC)
> 1Gbit/s (Fibre/LAN)
20Mbit/s (Consumer internet)
< 7,2 Mbit/s (Mobile 3G)
High & low latency

7. 2011 – CHAMP PLATFORM PILOT
Real-life television production use case
(Tournée Générale)
Webapps for multi-device collaboration
(information flow during production)
POC datamodel implemented using RDF

8. 2012 – CELTIC PROJECT TOPICS
High resolution media workflows in the cloud
•
Partners
• High bandwidth fibre networks
• Public, private & portable cloud concepts Telcos
• Security (authentication, authorization, data Network technology
integrity, data confidentiality, …)
vendors
• Datamodel for story-centric collaboration
Media experts
• Use of semantic technology such as RDF
(metadata/media
• New use cases:
workflows)
• e.g. fiction, sports, interactive formats, …
• Interactive, integrated advertising
Production/Broadcast
companies
• Professional cloud webapps: e.g. rough cut editor
• Platform business model Academic partners

9. CONTACT
Peter Defreyne – peter.defreyne@vrtmedialab.be – +32 494 15 95 92
Mike Matton – mike.matton@vrtmedialab.be – +32 497 80 45 70
www.vrtmedialab.be