While the move towards IP production is gathering pace rapidly, there are still a few areas where the industry as a whole is not as advanced as it should be. For those looking to set up IP-native workflows, there are a few gotchas still lurking in the details.

Gone are the days of plugging in some SDI cables and immediately seeing the picture from your camera on the monitor. IP flows between a sender and a receiver need to be first initiated and then maintained and monitored at all times. Meanwhile, endpoints need to be configured and provisioned with IP addresses, multicast addresses, and port numbers. And other considerations need to be addressed too, such as security.