MUPPITS is a research and development project set up to address the ever increasing challenges faced by the Post Production Industry today, caused by the adoption of increasingly complex processing requirements and the adoption of tapeless workflows.
MUPPITS brings together key players in the UK post-production value-chain to investigate, develop and demonstrate a new service oriented approach to film and broadcast post-production that will catalyse collaborative working and enable new business models. This contrasts with today’s practices, in which the scale, complexity and turnaround time of post-production work, especially at high resolutions, mean that post houses must make huge investments in in-house infrastructure to maintain the high resource capacity needed. The result is high costs, wasted power and organisational inefficiency, a situation that is rapidly becoming unworkable.
To simplify what we are trying to describe and to give examples of the everyday problems that occur, the project has made a short show reel that encapsulates what it’s all about. There is also some footage from the public demonstration given at Pinewood studios in November 2009.
The MUPPITS project aims to provide a route where organisations can share resources in a service oriented environment permitting seamless expansion of IT based capacity when required by utilising another company’s periodic excess capacity. Conversely value can be gained from underutilized resources by making these available to the wider post community. Further to this MUPPITS will investigate the feasibility of extending this capability in a cross industry capacity.
Our approach allows end-users, facilities houses and service providers to come together in a secure environment to plan, manage and combine their collective resources (people, hardware, applications) in a more dynamic and flexible way.
The MUPPITS project is co-funded by the Technology Strategy Board's Collaborative Research and Development Programme, following an open competition. It is led by the UK Digital Television Group (DTG), an industry body with over 120 member companies from throughout the television industry, comprising broadcasters, manufacturers and regulators. There are a further 8 partners with specialist skills who will work closely together to enable this vision to take place. The project started on January 1st 2008 and will continue for a period of 33 months.
Contact information
In the first instance please contact the MUPPITS Project Manager – Nikie Piper