See below for a sampling of the On Demand content that will be available to ALL registered attendees.
| More Info | Speakers | Name | Description |
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| Daniel Duran - RED Digital Cinema Aaron Kroger - Panavision Ben Cope - Intel | 8K Association: 8K Production |
This session will include: - Dan Duran, RED: 8k camera maker perspective - benefits of 8K capture; wide use of 8K capture; efficiency of REDRAW for production - Aaron Kroger, Panavision: Rental house perspective - reasons why filmmakers choose DXL2; 12K; virtual production - Ben Cope, Intel - Chip set perspective: TigerLake & FPGA support for 8K production and HDMI 2.1 and TB4 support The 8K Association is organizing almost 6 hours of seminar content to discuss the many aspects of the 8K ecosystem. This ecosystem continues to evolve but some questions and challenges remain. This special seminar is designed to bring together key experts in the 8K value chain to talk about their experiences with 8K, what they like, and what can be improved. The goal is to provide a solid understanding of the state of development of 8K technology and applications so listeners can decide if they should consider aspects of an 8K workflow and when to adopt it. | |
| Thierry Fautier - Harmonic Andy Blondin - Epic Games Michael Cioni - Frame.io Katie Fellion - Light Iron | 8K Association: 8K Workflow Trends |
Speakers in this session include: - Andy Blondin, Epic Games: game engine production perspective - how high resolution game engine images are aiding production in pre-vis, creation of virtual backgrounds, plates and VFX support. - Michael Cioni, Frame.io: Service provider perspective - cloud-based 8K workflow options, benefits, costs, results - Katie Fellion, Light Iron: post production perspective - 8k vs 4K workflows; challenges and solutions - Thierry Fautier, Harmonic: broadcast perspective - benefits and challenges of 8K in a broadcast environment and experiences producing 8K demos The 8K Association is organizing almost 6 hours of seminar content to discuss the many aspects of the 8K ecosystem. This ecosystem continues to evolve but some questions and challenges remain. This special seminar is designed to bring together key experts in the 8K value chain to talk about their experiences with 8K, what they like, and what can be improved. The goal is to provide a solid understanding of the state of development of 8K technology and applications so listeners can decide if they should consider aspects of an 8K workflow and when to adopt it. | |
| Bill Mandel - Samsung Stephen Wenger - Tencent Mickael Raulet - Ateme | 8K Association: Solving the 8K Distribution Challenge |
Speakers in this session will include: - Bill Mandel, Samsung Research America: TV maker perspective - need for Smart or AI-assisted encoding; AI ScaleNet one approach; results - Stephan Wenger, Tencent: End User perspective - Overview of standards status; opinion on best use cases for each codec - Mickael Raulet, Ateme: Encoder company perspective - status on codecs with a strong focus on codec performance and on VVC realistic implementation results The 8K Association is organizing almost 6 hours of seminar content to discuss the many aspects of the 8K ecosystem. This ecosystem continues to evolve but some questions and challenges remain. This special seminar is designed to bring together key experts in the 8K value chain to talk about their experiences with 8K, what they like, and what can be improved. The goal is to provide a solid understanding of the state of development of 8K technology and applications so listeners can decide if they should consider aspects of an 8K workflow and when to adopt it. | |
| Derek Bauer - Two Yellow Lines LLC Jake Olson - Two Yellow Lines Peter Mavromates - PostProducer Erik Messerschmidt - ASC Bruce Markoe - IMAX Zac Titus - Two Yellow Lines | 8K Association: The Creative Perspective on 8K | Speakers in this session will include: - Derek Bauer, Zak Titus, Jake Olson, Two Yellow Lines: INDIE perspective on workflow; creative discussion panel. - Peter Mavromates, Post Producer: small studio perspective - why 8K – technical, cost and creative considerations - Erik Messerschmidt, Cinematographer: small studio perspective - why 8K – technical, cost and creative considerations - Bruce Markoe, IMAX: large screen perspective - why 8K – technical, cost and creative considerations The 8K Association is organizing almost 6 hours of seminar content to discuss the many aspects of the 8K ecosystem. This ecosystem continues to evolve but some questions and challenges remain. This special seminar is designed to bring together key experts in the 8K value chain to talk about their experiences with 8K, what they like, and what can be improved. The goal is to provide a solid understanding of the state of development of 8K technology and applications so listeners can decide if they should consider aspects of an 8K workflow and when to adopt it. | |
| Nicolas Sturmel - Merging Technologies | AIMS: AES67 on the WAN | We will discuss about WANs, LANS, and their similarities and differences, and then address questions such as “Why would I need AES67 on the WAN?” and “What performance should I expect?” | |
| John Mailhot - Imagine Communications | AIMS: Evolutions of the AIMS Roadmap and JT-NM Roadmaps | The Join Taskforce on Networked Media (JT-NM) began in early 2013 with collections of user requirements around the evolution of television infrastructure into an IP/Virtualized future. In the seven years since then, an enormous amount of industry focus and collaboration has led to the development and deployment of SMPTE ST 2110, AMWA NMOS, and JT-NM TR-1001-1. This session reviews the historical drivers and evolution of the JT-NM and AIMS technology roadmaps, and looks forward through the lens of current technology trends to project the future for these roadmaps – including the evolution of virtualized, cloudified, and xAAS deployment methodologies and the standardization opportunities that accompany them. | |
| Mike Cronk - Grass Valley | AIMS: Introduction to AIMS | In this 30 minute session Mike Cronk, chairman of the board for AIMS, will provide background into the industry challenge AIMS is seeking to solve and the role AIMS plays in tackling that challenge in close collaboration with other key industry organizations. He will also provide a window into the current and future activities of AIMS as the organization seeks to foster the adoption of a common set of standards and open specifications for interoperability over IP for the media & entertainment and ProAV industries. | |
| David Chiappini - Matrox | AIMS: IPMX - Debunking the Myths | IPMX is an AV over IP standard for the ProAV market based on the SMPTE 2110 and NMOS set of open standards and specifications. This provides a solid, battle hardened foundation. IPMX then builds on top of this foundation to fulfill the requirements of ProAV customers. One common misconception is that SMPTE 2110 is over designed for most ProAV use cases, and as such will result in unnecessarily complex and expensive solutions. This presentation will highlight some of the unique characteristics of IPMX that enable cost effective and simpler solutions to be achieved. | |
| Greg Chin - Avid Technology Ozzie Sutherland - Netflix William Files - Pacific Standard Sound Scott Lewis - Skywalker Sound Jonathan Wales - Warner Bros. Studios Iris Wu - Barco Paula Fairfield - paulafairfield.com | Audio Engineering Society: All About the PAWs - Pandemic Audio Workflows |
The Audio Engineering Society (AES) joins SMPTE to ensure sound and audio are covered in SMPTE 2020. Organized by Iris Wu, Ambidio, these two essential sessions will cover topics and technologies on the tips of the tongues of every sound and audio engineer. After several months of dwelling in the COVID world, we hope to sit down with the experts to reflect on what is happening in the industry. We will examine what has changed, what is still in need of change, and how this will impact audio workflows in the future. | |
| Iris Wu - Barco Duu-Chih Tu - 3H Sound Studio | Audio Engineering Society: Seeking the Sound for Film: A Case of Mandarin-speaking Cinema |
TU Duu-Chih is the mind and ear behind the sound of numerous Mandarian-speaking films. In a career spanning over four decades, Tu has worked with prominent directors such as Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and Wang Kar-Wei. With a record of twelve Golden Horse Awards and a Cannes’ Technical Grand Prize on his belt, Tu received the National Award for Arts from Taiwan in 2004 for his significant contribution to the art and science of film in Taiwan. In this session, Tu will use some examples to share how he created the sound of these Mandarian classics. Let's check if there is really some cultural similarities and differences in crafting the sound and (of course) dealing with remote workflow. | |
| Dhananjay Lal - Charter Communications | IDEA Session 1 - Creating the Immersive Future: How we streamed a Light-field over a 10G Network | In this talk we describe how we streamed a light-field from the cable network edge to a holographic display that resolves multiple viewer perspectives simultaneously. The system is also capable of changing camera perspectives based on user gestures. This demo was shown in October 2020 at the Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers (SCTE) Tech Expo, which is a pre-eminent venue for thought leadership in broadband network evolution. We shall review the video of the demo and delve into the challenges we had to overcome to build the end-to-end delivery architecture. | |
| Bhaskar Banerjee - GridRaster Inc. | IDEA Session 2 - Future of Mobile (Untethered) Mixed Reality | Mixed Reality experience demands the highest performance graphics computation using dedicated GPUs to enable truly immersive experience for fast, smooth, and high fidelity visuals; concomitant with high precision spatial mapping for the fusion of the real and virtual worlds. Such performance is not possible to achieve on stand-alone un-tethered mobile devices such as AR/VR/MR headsets owing to the necessary power, thermal, and weight limitations. GridRaster is a cloud platform for enterprise MR, that enables high-fidelity mixed reality (MR) solution on untethered/wireless devices using distributed-GPUs for all the graphics heavy computing and wirelessly streaming the solution to headsets, mobile phones, and tablets. | |
| Pete Lude - Consultant | IDEA Session 3 - Understanding Immersive Displays | New display technologies capable of reproducing realistic 3D images are now under development. In the near future, it may even be possible to bring the fictional “Holodeck” to reality – creating a truly immersive, glasses-free visual experience. In this segment, you’ll learn about recent developments in these Immersive Displays, including multiplanar, volumetric, wavefront holography and light field. This range of technical approaches can be described through a taxonomy of optical design based on generating either points of light, rays of light or waves of light. These methods each have advantages and disadvantages, so will likely support different applications and use-cases. | |
| Forest Gibson - Pluto VR Keith Rothschild - Cox Communications | IDEA Session 4 - Enabling Immersive Communications | Forest Gibson, Co-founder of Pluto VR shares insights and lessons learned about Immersive Communication. The talk will cover: What is Immersive Communication and how it relates to current remote communication tools. The Uncanny valley and its importance in Immersive Communication. The basic building blocks required to produce compelling in person like connections. | |
| Kris Chaisanguanthum - Visby | IDEA Session 5 - Light Field Cinematography: A Case Study | Visby (visby.io) takes you behind the scenes of our light field video shoot for Charter’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo keynote demonstration. The cutting edge shoot represents several technical firsts, including outdoor light field video. We take you through preproduction, production and postproduction to demonstrate the process of going from creative concept to holographic video, streamed over DOCSIS 4.0 into a Looking Glass 8K display. We introduce Radiant Images’ 100 Sony camera 4K array, bring you on location to the shoot, discuss technical and logistical challenges of light field capture, and reflect on the state of the art and readiness for widespread adoption. | |
| Alex Hornstein - Looking Glass Factory, Inc Debbie Fitzgerald - CableLabs | IDEA Session 6 - Revolutionizing 3D Entertainment | Presented by IDEA | |
| Thomas Alder - OTOY | IDEA Session 7 - Understanding the ITMF Specification | The ITMF 1.0 Specification launches a media format for the interoperability of immersive 3D scene data and its assets. It establishes the footing for a standard industry format for mastering, carriage, interchange, and distribution of immersive media. ITMF’s assets are device agnostic enabling the media to be transcoded in a media and application aware network to match the end user device. In this session, we break down the suite of ITMF specifications, look at its role in comparison to currently used scene description formats, and preview some features of the next version. | |
| Eric Klassen - CableLabs Debbie Fitzgerald - CableLabs | IDEA Session 8 - Envisioning the Near Future of Entertainment | How will immersive technologies improve our ability to live, work, learn and play? Immersive media will enable content creators to change narratives and presents new opportunities and challenges to production. Tune into to this informative discussion with Eric Klassen, Executive Producer at CableLabs, to hear (and see) how he envisions the near future that immersive media will bring, and how the mission of IDEA is critical to making this near future a reality. | |
| Ciro Noronha - Cobalt Digital | RIST Session 1 - RIST Behind the Scenes: A Protocol Deep Dive | The Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) is an open specification from the Video Services Forum, created by a group of industry experts to provide low-latency audio/video transport over the public Internet, in a secure and reliable manner. RIST is available from all the major players in this industry and also as open source libraries. This session is a technical deep dive into the protocol, covering the basics of operation, packet recovery, security, authentication and other advanced features. It covers both RIST Simple Profile (VSF TR-06-1) and RIST Main Profile (VSF TR-06-2). | |
| Adi Rozenberg - RIST | RIST Session 2 - Enhanced Usage of the RIST Protocol to Address Network Challenges | The Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) is an open specification from the Video Services Forum. The specification allows vendors to innovate and implement a variety of functions and usage scenarios while staying within the boundaries of the specification. This session is a technical deep dive into how enhanced capabilities that are fully supported by RIST can be used to solve specific network challenges. The session will explore network conditions and deployments to provide reliable and secure links . It covers both RIST Simple Profile (VSF TR-06-1) and RIST Main Profile (VSF TR-06-2) features, including bonding, retransmission throttling, dynamic load sharing mixing of different link types and more. | |
| Sergio Ammirata - RIST | RIST Session 3 - RIST Ground Control to Major Cloud | This short talk will focus upon RIST for transporting your streams to and from a MegaVendor cloud such as Amazon or Azure. We expect you will want to process the stream in the cloud in some way, such as encoding it, then moving it out to somewhere else, such as to a CDN. In part one, we'll demonstrate compiling libRIST in Amazon EC2 using an Ubuntu image. In part two, we'll discuss two cost-saving strategies, one for Amazon and one for Azure. We will also provide a template to create and manage your own stream links using open source utilities. | |
| Kieran Kunhya - RIST | RIST Session 4 - Deploying RIST in the real world | This presentation will discuss the lessons learnt from deploying RIST in the real world globally for various actual contribution use-cases including programme contribution, news contribution, linear channel contribution and monitoring. It will provide an operational and technical overview into doing this compared to other protocols such as SRT and legacy FEC. | |
| Merrick Ackermans - CBS, Inc. | RIST Session 5 - RIST: How the industry put their differences aside to develop the Reliable Internet Stream Transport Suite of Technical Recommendations | The RIST Technical Recommendations were developed jointly and openly by industry leaders who worked together to develop a common and advancing set of interoperable protocols for live video transport primarily over the public internet. How these industry leaders have worked together to incorporate multiple internet protocol technologies will be discussed. We will also discuss where RIST is headed, how it is expanding beyond basic internet transport and what RIST will support in the future. | |
| Kieran Kunhya - RIST Wes Simpson - LearnIPvideo.com | RIST Session 6 - RIST Frequently Asked Questions | This recorded Q&A session covers many of the questions that users, implementers and designers have about the RIST protocol, including a wide range of topics about the technology, the open-source project and the many applications. Listen as a panel of experts navigate a series of questions posed by Wes and Kieran. | |
| Felicia Yue - Amazon Kari Grubin - Loren Nielsen - Xperi | Women in Technology Series - Felicia Yue | Join Kari Grubin and Loren Nielsen from HPA’s Women in Post for an intimate conversation with Felicia Yue of Amazon Prime Video. Felicia has amazing stories about her inspiring career journey and how she works to bring value added excitement and accessibility to Home Sports Viewing.
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| ConnecTech Asia 2020: Color and 8K and HDR! Oh, My! | Amazing image enhancements have arrived! Greater color volume, increased dynamic range allowing for brighter and blacker image elements, and many, many, many more pixels, provide a much different, much-enhanced viewing experience. In this session, you will learn about some of the science of enhanced imaging, practical applications, and where the implementation of these enhancement stands around the world. | ||
| ConnecTech Asia 2020: SMPTE Standards Paving the Way to the Future | Interoperability is paramount to ensuring one vendor’s solution will work with another vendor’s solution. Interoperability of software and equipment means not being locked in, but rather having a wider range of solutions. SMPTE’s Standards Community has evolved as the media & entertainment industry has evolved significantly over the past several years. Find out what standards are new, why they are important, and how SMPTE standards is supporting the future of media & Entertainment. | ||
| ConnecTech Asia 2020: The Industry Transformation Through Software-Defined Workflows | Accelerated by the events of 2020, content creation has taken giant leaps from being a primarily centralized, hardware-centric workflow, to one that utilizes software applications and “The Cloud”. Software-Defined Workflows enables content creators much greater flexibility and access to resources around the globe. But what is a Software-Defined Workflow and how has it been applied? Find out in this exciting and informative session | ||
| Future of Cinema 2020: Navigating the new “normal” – Business continuity in the face of a global pandemic | The Entertainment Industry is definitely redefining “business as usual” due to the massive global upheaval from COVID-19, but this isn’t the first time that our industry has been forced to implement crisis management and innovate workflows. Similar to the change management that had to be made after the 2011 Japanese Tsunami, all parts of the industry are having to deal with big and small, customer and internal and the technical repercussions and opportunities arising from this worldwide shift in our daily personal and business lives. Technical and Business leaders will share their insights on where they see the path for our industry moving forward and how they are coming together to support their colleagues. | ||
| Future of Cinema 2020: The Ascent of Cinema | Cinema technology shows no signs of slowing down, with continual breakthroughs in immersive audio, image, motion, interactivity, mixed reality and more. This however is balanced against continuing existential threats from audience viewing habits, disruptive business models, collapsing windows and streaming platform competition. Cinema has always weathered the storm of consumer technology advancement and creatives pioneering in the art of motion picture, but what lies ahead for cinema in the near and more distant future? This unmissable keynote will explore the next phases of evolution of cinema both technically and creatively, and what this means for the audience of the future. | ||
| Peter Putman - ROAM Consulting LLC | How to Install an Old-fashioned Antenna | Fun Tricks With TV Antennas! You may not know this, but VHF and UHF TV radio signals actually bend (refract) as they pass over hills and buildings. And this trick can be put to use to pull in TV stations in remote locations that, at first glance, would appear to have no TV reception at all. This short video explains how VHF and UHF signal refraction made successful TV reception possible at a remote location in southern Vermont. (You won't believe where one of the TV antennas was finally installed!) | |
| Dhananjay Lal - Charter Communications | IDEA Session 1 - Creating the Immersive Future: How we streamed a Light-field over a 10G Network | In this talk we describe how we streamed a light-field from the cable network edge to a holographic display that resolves multiple viewer perspectives simultaneously. The system is also capable of changing camera perspectives based on user gestures. This demo was shown in October 2020 at the Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers (SCTE) Tech Expo, which is a pre-eminent venue for thought leadership in broadband network evolution. We shall review the video of the demo and delve into the challenges we had to overcome to build the end-to-end delivery architecture. | |
| Bhaskar Banerjee - GridRaster Inc. | IDEA Session 2 - Future of Mobile (Untethered) Mixed Reality | Mixed Reality experience demands the highest performance graphics computation using dedicated GPUs to enable truly immersive experience for fast, smooth, and high fidelity visuals; concomitant with high precision spatial mapping for the fusion of the real and virtual worlds. Such performance is not possible to achieve on stand-alone un-tethered mobile devices such as AR/VR/MR headsets owing to the necessary power, thermal, and weight limitations. GridRaster is a cloud platform for enterprise MR, that enables high-fidelity mixed reality (MR) solution on untethered/wireless devices using distributed-GPUs for all the graphics heavy computing and wirelessly streaming the solution to headsets, mobile phones, and tablets. | |
| Pete Lude - Consultant | IDEA Session 3 - Understanding Immersive Displays | New display technologies capable of reproducing realistic 3D images are now under development. In the near future, it may even be possible to bring the fictional “Holodeck” to reality – creating a truly immersive, glasses-free visual experience. In this segment, you’ll learn about recent developments in these Immersive Displays, including multiplanar, volumetric, wavefront holography and light field. This range of technical approaches can be described through a taxonomy of optical design based on generating either points of light, rays of light or waves of light. These methods each have advantages and disadvantages, so will likely support different applications and use-cases. | |
| Forest Gibson - Pluto VR Keith Rothschild - Cox Communications | IDEA Session 4 - Enabling Immersive Communications | Forest Gibson, Co-founder of Pluto VR shares insights and lessons learned about Immersive Communication. The talk will cover: What is Immersive Communication and how it relates to current remote communication tools. The Uncanny valley and its importance in Immersive Communication. The basic building blocks required to produce compelling in person like connections. | |
| Kris Chaisanguanthum - Visby | IDEA Session 5 - Light Field Cinematography: A Case Study | Visby (visby.io) takes you behind the scenes of our light field video shoot for Charter’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo keynote demonstration. The cutting edge shoot represents several technical firsts, including outdoor light field video. We take you through preproduction, production and postproduction to demonstrate the process of going from creative concept to holographic video, streamed over DOCSIS 4.0 into a Looking Glass 8K display. We introduce Radiant Images’ 100 Sony camera 4K array, bring you on location to the shoot, discuss technical and logistical challenges of light field capture, and reflect on the state of the art and readiness for widespread adoption. | |
| Alex Hornstein - Looking Glass Factory, Inc Debbie Fitzgerald - CableLabs | IDEA Session 6 - Revolutionizing 3D Entertainment | Presented by IDEA | |
| Thomas Alder - OTOY | IDEA Session 7 - Understanding the ITMF Specification | The ITMF 1.0 Specification launches a media format for the interoperability of immersive 3D scene data and its assets. It establishes the footing for a standard industry format for mastering, carriage, interchange, and distribution of immersive media. ITMF’s assets are device agnostic enabling the media to be transcoded in a media and application aware network to match the end user device. In this session, we break down the suite of ITMF specifications, look at its role in comparison to currently used scene description formats, and preview some features of the next version. | |
| Eric Klassen - CableLabs Debbie Fitzgerald - CableLabs | IDEA Session 8 - Envisioning the Near Future of Entertainment | How will immersive technologies improve our ability to live, work, learn and play? Immersive media will enable content creators to change narratives and presents new opportunities and challenges to production. Tune into to this informative discussion with Eric Klassen, Executive Producer at CableLabs, to hear (and see) how he envisions the near future that immersive media will bring, and how the mission of IDEA is critical to making this near future a reality. | |
| Barbara Lange - SMPTE | SMPTE 2020 Town Hall | View a replay of the SMPTE Annual Membership Meeting, presented in a Town Hall format. | |
| Peter Putman - ROAM Consulting LLC | SMPTE Irresistible Jam - "Feeling Alright" | Last June, the SMPTE Irresistible jam band was tasked with producing a music video for a joint SMPTE - IABM online meeting...but there was a catch: Everyone had to record their performances from home, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No problem! 10 musicians located across the continent (Iowa, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ontario, and New York) warmed up their voices and tuned up their instruments to create this "coronavirus cloud collaboration" and answer the musical question..."How Ya Feeling?" | |
| Peter Putman - ROAM Consulting LLC | SMPTE Jam - "R.E.S.P.E.C.T." | Once again, the SMPTE Irresistible Jam Band got together to record this music video of the 1967 Aretha Franklin classic, "Respect" (which was actually written by Otis Redding!). 14 talented SMPTE member musicians, recording remotely from locations across the United States and Canada, contributed parts for this song via the cloud. Over 400 audio and video files were created along the way to the finished audio mix and video edit. We hope you enjoy this performance as much as we did putting it together. So, put on your dancing shoes, crank up the volume, and get happy! | |
| Raul Alba - Avid | SMPTE Posters: Evolution of Modern News Production | The world has changed. Technologies have evolved. People don’t consume news content as they used to. News organizations are facing challenges to adapt their workflows and processes to this new world where the time to air, or rather the time to on-line, is the most important factor; how the roles and tasks have changed and how the old news production logic needs to evolve to address these new priorities. | |
| Marc Zorn - eZorn Consulting Group | SMPTE Posters: Evolution of Security - How to Control Data in the Wild | Data does not stay within our direct administration. It is constantly exchanged with other parties, and is stored in environments with unknown controls. So, we need to change how we think about and manage data in a fundamentally different way. It may not seem obvious, but we've done this many times before with other aspects of our lives. Take a few minutes to consider what it takes to protect data in the wild. | |
| Katie Hinsen - Blue Collar Post Collective | SMPTE Posters: Hello, my name is Post Production: Findings and observations from the annual survey of Post Production professionals | Every year, the Blue Collar Post Collective administers the most comprehensive survey of US post production professionals. I will share data and insights from this study, including who we are and how we're paid. You will gain insight into how you, your department and your company compares with the industry at large. You will better understand where tangible impact can be made on improving our corner of the industry for yourself, your colleagues and your business. | |
| Adam Fonacier - Ball State University Camille Scurlock - Gabe Hua - Ball State University | SMPTE Posters: Subjective listening tests with expert listeners to determine transparency level of adaptive audio compression codecs | In the Spring of 2020, Ball State University worked with industry partner Netflix to train audio engineering students to be expert listeners and determine transparency levels for adaptive audio codecs. Tests were conducted by hearing scientists in the Ball State University state of the art audiology clinic. The students will give a presentation on technical aspects of the codec used, typical artifacts, and limitations. Background on the training methods and data collection will be provided as well. | |
| Dennis Felton - Consultant | SMPTE Posters: Workflow Design for Disruptive Technology | Whether it was from film to tape, tape to files, analog to digital, there has always been disruption in the business of Content Creation. Because of this, it’s critical to create accurate and adaptable workflows on the first attempt. The methodology we'll discuss during this session is DIME (Define/Design, Implement/Improve, Measure/Maximize, Exploit/Explode). DIME offers the ability to move quickly from first customer contact to successful deployment and monetization. There are two distinct Workflow Processes currently used in the Media & Entertainment industry; one is for designing standards like ST 2067 and the other for processes for deployment in facilities. These are two separate and diverse methodologies employed for specific outcomes in two very important areas of M&E Workflow design. The objective of Workflow Design is to create Effective and Efficient processes while removing obstacles that impede Creativity and Productivity. Currently, facility workflow design happens after the purchase of technology. This is a practice that is unique to our industry and increases the level of difficulty while making it nearly impossible to create flexibility. Given this recommendation, it’s important we become familiar with how DIME performs and what to expect when using it in designing new and improving existing workflows. | |
| Kylee Peña - Adobe | SMPTE Storytellers: An Exit Strategy - A Story by Kylee Pena | Nearly a decade ago, Kylee found herself at a crossroads, personally and professionally. She was faced with difficult choices: navigating a possible career pivot, seeking refuge from a home life that wasn't working, and surviving mentally and financially in the process. In this session, Kylee will talk through her challenging transitional period and what she learned about the importance of exit strategies and access to resources, especially as a woman in tech. | |
| Iris Wu - Barco | SMPTE Storytellers: Her Thousand Thoughts about Oscar’s New Diversity Rules - A Story by Iris Wu | Born and raised in Taiwan, it was quite a journey for me starting from struggling to understand English lectures to call Hollywood my second home: I co-founded an HPA Award-winning company Ambidio, made some friends, and even chair the SMPTE ATC AES track this year. After learning Oscar’s new diversity rules, there are a thousand thoughts tangled in my head. Would you bring your favorite drink and we share these feelings over it? | |
| Ravi Krishnaswami - COPILOT Music + Sound | SMPTE Storytellers: How Media Can Support Musicians, Now More Than Ever - A Story By Ravi Krishnaswami | Media and the arts have always been tightly enmeshed ecosystems. The greatest reward of a long career writing music for TV has been the opportunity to work so many amazing musicians in the studio. Almost all these musicians can now record from home. As concert halls remain dark, now is a great time to consider commissioning a new piece and putting these amazing professionals back to work. | |
| Lee Hunt - CMOintelligence | SMPTE Storytellers: Lee Hunt - Do Television Networks Have Souls? - A story by Lee Hunt | Something unusual happened at the broadcast and cable networks in the first quarter of the COVID-19 pandemic. They dedicated an unprecedented amount of their airtime to inform, comfort, and help viewers find some escape. Across more than 50 networks, a unique set of qualitative and quantitative patterns emerged. This is a story of lessons learned in a time of social and industry upheaval. | |
| Brandie Konopasek - Netflix | SMPTE Storytellers: The Importance of a Mentor - A Story by Brandie Konopasek | Acknowledging The Unofficial Mentor - A brief history of those who helped guide my career | |
| Christian Navas - Fancy Film Post Services | SMPTE Storytellers: The importance of establishing meaningful relationships - A Story by Christian Navas | The act of working hard alone didn’t take me anywhere, but establishing friendships and sharing a common interest grew me as a professional in this industry. In Hollywood there is a statement floating around, “it is not what you know, but who you know”, Although that is not entirely true, it is important that as you grow and work hard, don’t forget to make friends along the way. |