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New SMPTE PDA Now Sponsorship Opportunities added! Click Here to find out more!SMPTE PDA NowLive, interactive webcasts covering high demand topics and recent technology developments. Each monthly, one hour session covers a single technical topic and will be designed to address specific technical aspects, technical challenges or answer questions associated with technologies of high interest to the engineering and technical communities within the motion imaging industry.
2010 Calendar!
8-Apr-2010 Color Management in the Digital World
13-May-2010 Audio Issues in the Media
27- May-2010 Repurposing Content for Multiple Distribution Formats 10-Jun-2010 Converting 2D Content to 3D 8-Jul-2010 Business Metrics in file based workflows - automating the Delivery Specification Guest Speakers: Bruce Devlin, CTO, Amberfin and Mark Horton, Product Marketing Manager, Amberfin
12-Aug-2010 “Green” Issues in Media and Entertainment
9-Sep-2010 Cryptography
14-Oct-2010 Internet and Other New Media
11-Nov-2010 Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
9-Dec-2010 Stereoscopic 3D
Previously on SMPTE PDA Now:(View recordings at SMPTE PDA Anywhere)
Originally webcast on 11-March-2010 Media Technology and Opera Stereo sound and electronic home entertainment are two technologies invented for opera. Arguably, broadcasting, location recording, movies, and possibly even the telephone owe their existence to opera. Today, opera productions can involve banks of computer-graphics processors, infra-red motion-capture sensors, and multiple HD projectors. Operas have been distributed live to cinemas in 3-D. They have advanced camera motion, subtitling, and streaming technologies. They have used as many as 27 cameras, have been distributed live to as many as 125 countries simultaneously, and have even utilized the facilities of the Large Hadron Collider. Opera? Yes, opera. Join SMPTE Fellow Mark Schubin for a look into the past, present, and future of the Fandom of the Opera. Quality Control, Test, and Measuement in File-based Workflow Quality Control, Test, and Measurement - What do these terms mean to quality in today's file-based environment? There is a long history with well established testing practices in the video realm, but file-based workflows create a completely different set of challenges to ensuring quality. Join our speakers as they discuss the implications of formats, wrappers, and other non-video elements in the file-based QC process. Learn how to accommodate engineering correctness and business process correctness even when they might have divergent objectives. Originally webcast on 29 January 2010 Beyond HD Super- and ultra-high definition resolutions are one way future television might go beyond HDTV, but there are other technological innovations. Sharpness can be increased independently of resolution. High-dynamic-range cameras and displays can go beyond common HDTV's contrast capabilities. Other systems move beyond HDTV's color palette, aspect ratio, and sound imaging. And then there's stereoscopic 3-D. Please join our very special guest speaker, multiple-Emmy-award-winning SMPTE Fellow Mark Schubin, as shares what he sees over the technology horizon. Digital Storage for Professional Media and Entertainment
Guest Speaker: Thomas M. Coughlin, Coughlin Associates The implications of ever higher resolution content processed in today’s digital media workflow from content capture, ingest, editing and post production, content delivery as well as archive and preservation are of concern to many in the Motion Imaging Industry. There is also a growing trend toward the use of network storage rather than direct attached storage for many performance-oriented M&E applications as the capabilities of storage networks has improved and costs have dropped. The development of the digital storage hierarchy to support these activities has led to the use of many types of storage devices including capacity hard disk drives, performance hard disk drives, optical discs and magnetic tape. In addition to these traditional storage media and systems flash memory has emerged as a strong storage contender, particularly in rugged content capture devices as well as in high performance content delivery systems. In this SMPTE PDA session, our guest speaker Coughlin Associates' Tom Coughlin will provide an overview of these technologies and where they may best apply. In addition, some results from a recently completed survey of M&E professionals conducted by Coughlin Associates will be presented to show current status and developing trends in this highly demanding and storage intensive industry. Originally webcast on 12 November, 2009 Stereoscopic displays in the home Most of us are now aware of or have experienced stereoscopic 3D in the movie theaters. There is, however, a tremendous amount of activity underway to bring the experience and glassess-free, autostereoscopic technology to the home. For notebooks, monitors, TVs and home theater projectors, several 3D technologies are starting to enter the home. For small screens, 3D technology is starting to be commercialized for use in cellphones/smartphones, camera systems and picture frames. Creating the 3D ecosystem requires content, a delivery mechanism and a display system. Please join our guest speaker Chris Chinnock as he explores the various platforms available in the home, describes basic in-home display approaches, updates us on the status of current products and the expectations for future products. Originally webcast on 24 September, 2009
When news breaks, workflow efficiency can mean the difference between getting to air first - or not getting there at all. Building your newsroom around a shared storage architecture with integrated editors helps deliver the quickest time from content acquisition to air. Larger newsrooms can reap additional rewards by implementing a low-resolution workflow that allows scores of users to work on content simultaneously. Originally webcast on 9 July, 2009
Producing Stereoscopic Content: What Makes Great 3D Great and What Can Go Wrong? Originally webcast on 11 June, 2009 Implementing 10G+ Ethernet in Motion Imaging Workflows: Practical Considerations and Roadmap for the Future There is considerable potential in moving the entire connection infrastructure for motion imaging production to the same technology used by the IT industry, especially since Ethernet is now capable of carrying uncompressed HD or better quality streams. Broadcom's Michael D. Johas Teener outlines the current state of the art for Ethernet systems running at 10Gigabit/sec, how Ethernet systems meet the guaranteed quality of service and very low delay requirement needed for professional applications, and how various synchronization systems may be implemented. Finally, Mr. Teener describes the roadmap to 40 and even 100 Gbit/sec. Originally webcast 14 May, 2009
Principles behind perception of depth in the the human visual field must be understood and applied to create great looking stereoscopic 3D images. In this SMPTE PDA Now event, renowned stereoscopic luminary, Lenny Lipton provides an overview of these principles as used in stereoscopic cinematography. In addition, Mr. Lipton explains approaches used in the past to create stereoscopic content as well as various methods used in modern digital stereo-cinematography. Originally webcast 9 April ,2009 DTV Transition: Terrestrial DTV Signal Reception - An Update From the Field
The
transition to digital terrestrial TV broadcasting is closing in on
D-Day – When analog (NTSC) broadcasts from full-power TV stations will
shut down for good. Originally webacst on February 26, 2009 DTV Transition: Working Through the Early Challenges of a Post Analog World Originally webcast on 5 February , 2009
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