The DPP has joined forces with Reuters, Arqiva and Warner Bros Discovery to develop the DPP Live Production Exchange (LPX).
LPX provides an open metadata and API framework for automating live production workflows and helps broadcasters and producers share live video feeds by introducing a standardised approach to live production metadata and automation via open APIs for publishing and receiving live events.
At the DPP LPX Hackathon, which took place earlier this month, news agencies, broadcasters, content platforms and technology vendors collaborated on innovative solutions that utilise LPX.
The event saw 61 practitioners from 21 companies form nine teams, developing tools for ingesting and publishing live video for a variety of business-critical functions including automated clip creation and live news studio production.
Code Howlers, made up of Wolftech’s Sergej Stoppel and Erik Blakstad, with Richard Lynton Evans, Mark Himsley, Sam Mesterton-Gibbons, and Neil James Bateman from the BBC, were announced as the winner of ‘Best use of LPX’ for their “focus on the usability for journalists, change management, and thorough consideration about how the solution could be implemented”.
“It was a privilege to bring together so many talented developers from diverse organisations and have it result in such great engagement in the room and new ideas for LPX and live production.” said DPP technology strategist David Thompson, who has been leading the DPP LPX initiative.
“We hope this will deliver real commercial and editorial benefits across the business of live production.”
More details about DPP LPX are available here.
