SMPTE Toronto Announces BootCamp V Technical Seminar: “The Expanding Universe of Broadcasting” in Toronto on June 5 and 6, 2012.

Dates: Tuesday June 5th and 6th 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location: George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
245 Church St. Ryerson University Campus
Toronto

Registration: Please Click Here

The Toronto Section of the SMPTE is pleased to announce that they will be holding their hugely popular BootCamp Technical Seminar this spring in Toronto. This will be the Toronto Sections 18th Technical Seminar and the 2-day event will bring together Canada’s largest technical audience of media technology professionals and industry experts under a common educational theme.

Scheduled for June 5 and 6, 2012 and held at Ryerson University in Toronto, this year’s topical umbrella is “The Expanding Universe of Broadcasting”. Within this arena, presenters will explore new and evolving methods and technologies related to media acquisition, production, presentation and distribution in the professional television and film industries. As these areas continue to broaden with ever-more powerful media toolsets and technology/distribution opportunities the need for SMPTE Toronto’s bi-annual boot camps continues to grow.

This event represents a tremendous training and networking opportunity for Canada’s engineering community who work at the heart of the nation’s 17 billion dollar Film, Television and Media industries. As in the past the BootCamp is organized by volunteers form SMPTE’s Toronto Section with a non-commercial editorial process at the heart of its presentation selection process. The previous four BootCamps, have been highly attended with audiences in excess of 200 attendees.

As in past years, this BootCamp will feature top tier Keynote speakers, including Barbara Lange, SMPTE Executive Director, and a comfortable and intimate industry tradeshow with technology demonstrations. The event will kick off on the evening of Monday June 4 with a Toronto Section combined BBQ and a potential Facility Tour.

Topic areas for presentations currently submitted and under consideration  for Boot Camp V include;

• Higher Frame Rate Image Collection
• Future of post-production
• TRIAX  and SMPTE 311Fiber Optic Systems
• Measuring Video Quality
• File-Based Delivery Systems
• 4K imagng
• LTO-5/LTFS/Asset Management
• Interactive Mobile DTV Content Authouring
• Broadcasting multiple video streams to Mobile Handheld
• High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
• SMPTE BXF Standard
• Next Generation Genlock
• IMF Media Storage Infrastructure

Attending: The event is open to SMPTE members and non-members. For SMPTE members Earlybird rates start at $100 and this year’s event will include two lunches, welcome coffee as well as coffee breaks conference bag and access to the presentations from the conference. To register for this event please click here.

Sponsorship: To date this year’s The Expanding Universe of Broadcasting sponsors include Miranda Technologies, Harris Broadcast, Panasonic Canada, Quantel, Applied Electronics, Novanet Communications, DAV Solutions, Ericsson Television, Evertz Microsystems, Rogers Media, Ross Video, and Tektronix Canada. There are still limited sponsorships opportunities available and sponsors who book by April 30th may qualify for a Tradeshow Table. Please email smpte.board.toronto@gmail.com.

Call for Papers: The Organizing Committee is soliciting proposals for technical papers for the BootCamp. Interested authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract (no more than 300 words) including topic heading, paper title, delivery method (presentation, video clip, demonstration), a brief description of the proposed paper's content, name of author/presenter, company, mailing address, telephone/fax numbers, and e-mail address no later than midnight, April 30th, 2012 to smptepapers@gmail.com

Tradeshow: Brought back by popular demand by vendors, the relaxed end-of-day tradeshow concept has proved to be popular with attendees and those who booked booths during our previous events. The tradeshow lasts for 2-3 hours on June 5 following the days papers with food provided for attendees. There will be limited space this year for booths. Each booth includes 10 Foot Frontage, 8 Foot Table (Actual 7.5 ft. * 2 ft.), supplied electricity—power bar, Internet connection and your Company name listed in the promotion for the Tradeshow event. Remaining booth spaces will become available on April 1 following the Tradeshow Sponsorship promotion above. To book a table e-mail smpte.board.toronto@gmail.com

Welcome To The Toronto Section of SMPTE

ABOVE: The Theatorium at 183 Yonge Street opened in 1906 as Toronto's first movie theatre

NOTE: You will find our next meeting information directly below this mission statement.

Since 1918 when Bill Redpath became the first Canadian (and Torontonian) to join SMPTE, the Toronto Section of the Society Of Motion Picture And Television Engineers has been one of the most active and innovative sections within the organization. With well over 400 members and with meetings that have been known to draw as many as 200, its volunteer Board Of Managers annually executes an aggressive, relevant, and corporately neutral program that goes well beyond the ten section meetings that it runs each season. The Toronto Sections program includes presentations from many of the industries top engineers and innovators, often includes facility tours and includes semi-annual technical seminars such as the sections popular "Boot Camps", that concentrates advanced learning over two days in a local Toronto venue.

SMPTE's Toronto Sections reach extends well beyond the GTA covering an area that extends westward from the Province of Quebec to Victoria Island in British Columbia and northward from the American border to the northern territories that include Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut making it SMPTE's largest North American section. As such the Toronto Section is educationally focused streaming most of its meetings live to the internet so remote SMPTE members in Canada and around the globe can participate in SMPTE meetings of interest. In keeping with it's educational focus the Section maintains an archive library of its meetings that are available on demand globally via its website and date back as far as 1985.
 

Education

Education for SMPTE members extends far beyond that offered by the Toronto Section. Members of The Society Of Motion Picture And Television Engineers have access to a variety of seminars and publications. They include The Journal --available in print or PDF--, the SMPTE Professional Development Academy (SMPTE PDA), --a series of live interactive seminars that are available live as a streamed event or for download from the SMPTE's PDA web based archive--, and streamed archived recording of presentations made at SMPTE's Technical Conferences.
 

Section Meetings

Toronto Section meetings are held ten times a year and are normally held on the second Tuesday of each month excluding the months of July and August. Meetings are designated as either Open or for Members Only. Membership in the Toronto Section of SMPTE has its privileges through its “Members Only” meetings that usually occur on several occasions and normally consist of broadcast/film production facility tours or screenings. Open SMPTE meetings are usually more presentation based and provide an opportunity for those new to the industry or those considering SMPTE to join us for a meeting. The 09-10 Toronto Section Program included “Members Only” meetings that toured CITY/OMNI TV facility in Toronto’s Dundas Square and a two-day boot camp that focused on emerging industry specific technologies in the area of 3DTV and ATSC mobile. These tours and technically focused "boot camps" are designed to provide our members with an insider view on how new production tools and broadcast operations are technologically put together, as well as how they operate.