Bexel Broadcast Services, SVG and BURST (Broadcast Union's Resource for Specialized Training) hosted a tapeless workflow training event in New York City on December 13, 2007. Panasonic, AVID, EVS, and Thomson GVG presented production workflow overviews that were supported by presentations and hands on time with the equipment. The P2, EVS IPD/xFile, and GVG Infinity production workflows were specifically addressed along with AVID's presentation on their latest software enhancements and metadata management. Metadata was the hot topic in all three sessions with concerns over the amount of data that has now been collected in archival storage and how to handle future data more efficiently.

The "Media Asset Manager" is a growing position in the production industry. The volume of video data stored and to be stored is now requiring a specific role of editorial management that the industry has not had in the past.

BURST represents 4,500 TV professionals in NY, and through their parent organizations, NABET-CWA and IBEW, more than 25,000 Broadcast professionals around the country. BURST also coordinates other training programs in other cities around the country where the parent unions have members, including Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and San Francisco.