AUSTIN, Texas—Iatakoo, a workflow developer for the broadcast and production industries, has announced that it is partnering with the Associated Press on assignment tracking and file delivery across platforms.

To achieve this, the two sides are integrating the Iatakoo Manifest—a collaboration tool that facilitates discovery, tracking and request of media files—and AP’s ENPS news production system. Through the integration, assignments in ENPS can be matched with video files delivered by Iatakoo.

Users can request a story and have it automatically deliver to the desired workflow as soon as it is available. There are notifications alerting when files are uploaded so users are up to date from anywhere.

“Remote production is more important than ever as news and production crews are forced to leave the studios during COVID-19, but all those dispersed users still need a way to know in real time that an idea or story has been assigned or the file has been uploaded or reviewed,” said Paul Adrian, Iatakoo CEO. “With Manifest, they have direct access to the story from birth to broadcast and with our collaboration with ENPS, they can find the story in Iatakoo or ENPS.”

For more information, visit Iatakoo’s website. 

LONDON—The use of videotape for file delivery is now officially part of the past in the U.K. As of Oct. 1, U.K. broadcasters would no longer accept delivery on videotape said Mark Harrison, Digital Production Partnership managing director. To help with the new procedures, DPP has released an updated version of “A Producer’s Guide to File Delivery.”

“It’s the natural next step three years after the DPP initiated its AS-11 file delivery specification,” said Harrison in regards to the stopping of videotape delivery. “The latest version of our guide helps producers deliver their programs in a world without videotape. It also offers guidance on emerging specifications and formats that will impact them.”

The updated guide incorporates the DPP’s “Delivering Close to TX—Without Tape: What U.K. Producers Need to Know,” and provides insights into things like UHD.

The guide was enabled by DPP member Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. It is available for download here.