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SMPTE PDA NowSpecial Thanks to our Premium Sponsor! SMPTE PDA Sponsors needed! Click Here to find out more! Live, 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. SMPTE PDA Now sessions are available as a SMPTE member benefit. Non-members may access content for a nominal fee. Unable to attend a live event? Sessions are recorded and made available to SMPTE Members for later viewing through SMPTE PDA Anywhere. SMPTE PDA 2009 CalendarKnow a topic that needs to be covered? Send your suggestions to jwelch@smpte.org Planned SMPTE PDA Now Session: Improving News Workflow Efficiency 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.
August 13, 2009 - Stereoscopic displays in the home September 10, 2009 - Camera to Television (Image Acquisition, Transport, and Distribution) November 12, 2009 - Storage, Archiving and Restoration December 12, 2009 – Beyond HD (Please note - Calendar is subject to change without notice.) Previously on SMPTE PDA Now: (Recordings available at SMPTE PDA Anywhere) Producing Stereoscopic Content: What Makes Great 3D Great and What Can Go Wrong? 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 Art of Stereography Guest Speaker: Lenny Lipton 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 April 9,2009 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 February 5, 2009 AVC Compression: Choosing the right tools from a larger toolbox. This SMPTE PDA Now session looks at some of the new implementations of H.264 based AVC compression. AVC had improved upon many of the earlier generation compression tools, and added some entirely new ones. A significantly larger set of tools now is available for inter-frame, intra-frame and entropy coding type compression. This presentation will examine the technology behind the standard and some of the choices to be made in implementing AVC based compression for a wide range of professional video acquisition applications. Originally webcast on January 8, 2009 December 11, 2008
Please join our expert panel, Bill Hayes of IPTV and Matthew Goldman of Tandberg Television, plus Moderator Tom Butts of TV Technology Magazine, as we explore some of the not so obvious issues surrounding the DTV Transition. September 25, 2008 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Want to know what you might expect when you install BXF messaging in your facility? During this SMPTE PDA Now session, Rick Stora, Sundance Digital, part of Avid, explains what lessons were learned during an early installation of the BXF (SMPTE 2010) messaging technology at WJCT in Jacksonville, Florida.
September 11, 2008 Long
at the core of motion imaging, the cathode-ray tube is on the
endangered list, but what will replace it? LCD? plasma? OLEDs? FEDs?
Please join SMPTE PDA Now’s guest speaker, Pete Putman, ROAM Consulting
L.L.C as he shares the results* of performance tests conducted using
the display technologies currently trying to fill the CRT's shoes. See
how each technology measures up to various image quality metrics in
this important SMPTE PDA Now event. August 14, 2008 Development of the BXF (Broadcast eXchange Format) Standard was one
of the more popular standardization activities in recent years within
SMPTE, with over 150 individuals contributing to the process (SMPTE
2021). The standard was published in April after more than three years of work. BXF
is primarily targeted at enabling systems to exchange schedule, as run,
and content metadata, as well as content transfer requests. Please join us for a better understanding of what BXF is, how it works, and what it does. July 10, 2008 File based technologies have replaced video tape methods for a
majority of production and broadcast operations. This seminar reviews
the essentials of file transfer, streaming and storage access using IT
methods. Included in the discussion are; eight motivators for
leveraging IT in AV systems, video client types, four key QoS metrics,
special considerations for HD, dealing with latency and loss in IT
networks and storage systems for real-time access. Plus, best practice
guidelines will be presented across a wide range of topics. June 12 May 8 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Stereoscopic 3D movies are here today in cinema. There is a growing push to bring them to homes, but there are many ways to create 3D displays and many ways to distribute 3D content for in-home viewing. The good news is there are many 3D display options. The bad news is there are few 3D display standards. Please join us in this SMPTE PDA Now webcast as we seek to explain some of the technologies competing to bring 3D content to the various displays found in the home. 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern In this SMPTE PDA Now webcast, we survey the current (transitional) digital work flow from cinema digital intermediate, post production and mastering, through to distribution and exhibition. We also explore how work flow may eventually change as we move to solely digital exhibition. In addition, our speaker describes the difference between digital cinema and video, and explains the role of SMPTE standards in defining the future digital cinema environment. March 13 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern HD video image acquisition has recently broadened to accommodate a wide spectrum of production genres that support the industry’s accelerating transition to high definition (HD) television. A hierarchy of professional HD cameras and camcorders has emerged priced from less than $10,000 to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Such diversity suggests an equivalent wide range in HD image quality. Confusion surrounds the multiple technological compromises in optics, sensors, DSP, and recording bit rate reduction strategies that circumscribe the cost-performance ranking of each acquisition system. This SMPTE PDA Now event emphasizes the intimate relationship between an HD lens and camera in terms of image format size, image sensor count, and related expectations in key performance parameters that include sensitivity, depth of field, resolution, contrast ratio, and dynamic range. February 14 January 17, 2008 The term IPTV can mean many things to many people. What exactly is IPTV? How does it work? These are all very good and very common questions. This SMPTE PDA Now session seeks to answer these questions by discussing the end-to-end architectural components in an IPTV chain, from the source to IP-based Set Top Boxes in the home. It covers the services which can be provided by IPTV, the role of IPTV middleware in enabling them, and how IPTV can provide a platform for integration of video, voice and data (a.k.a the triple play). Finally, your speaker will explain the various protocols (RTP, RTCP, RTSP, and IGMPv3) and standards development efforts (ITU-T IPTV Focus Group, ITU-T SG9, DVB, ATIS-IIF, CEA OCC, DLNA, ISMA) underway to maximize the potential of IPTV.
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