David Austerberry

Editor, Broadcast Engineering

has 35 years experience in the broadcast sector. He has worked as a systems integrator at broadcasters and in product marketing for manufacturers. He has been editing the World Edition of Broadcast Engineering since 2005. His specialities are digital imaging and DAM.

Posts by David Austerberry

Broadcasters should stick to program making

  Red faces at the BBC as John Linwood, the BBC's chief technology officer, is suspended following the scrapping of their in-house....More
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in BE@NAB Apr. 16, 2013

A Personal Take on TV and Cinema Cameras at NAB

Cameras come in all shapes and sizes now, from GoPro HERO to Sony F65. But looking back, as performance improves, the prices have come down. Whether....More

Future Developments in Imaging Technology

Cameras are getting better and more versatile. NAB saw some new product launches and the trend seems to be towards 4K imaging. However, there was....More
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Adobe Anywhere Updates at NAB

Raft of updates to Premiere, Prelude, After Effects and Audition to be previewed at NAB 2013....More

Panasonic Publishes Paper on New Camera Sensor

A paper from Panasonic in Nature's Photonics journal details the design of an imaging sensor that provides an alternative to the 3-chip camera or the....More

QC at the EBU, a path to automation

Broadcasters are looking at automated QC to save costs as the volume of file-based content mushrooms. Full manual QC is not an option....More

Future Production Technology. A View From The EBU, Day 2

Friedrich Gierlinger, Rico Zimmerman of the German broadcaster’s R&D organization, IRT, talked about the issues around the QC of program....More

CES, 4K & TV Everywhere's impact on future workflow

A shift to 4K production and the continuance for TV everywhere mean less to broadcasters than the continuing changes on the business side....More

Is video editing in the cloud real?

Is it real? I take a look at Adobe Anywhere and Avid Interplay Sphere to see how these products are freeing creatives from the desk and the edit bay....More