Our
Next SMPTE Toronto Section Meeting
| DATE: |
Tuesday
December 9, 2008 |
| TIME: |
7:00
PM |
| TOPIC: |
Arias
& Acquisition: A Two-Part Evening with Mark Schubin |
| LOCATION: |
Rogers
Communications Centre
RCC-316 NOTE: (NOT the Eaton
theatre)
Ryerson University - 80 Gould Street, Toronto |
| ARRANGED
BY: |
Mike
Prest |
| SPONSORED
BY: |
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Part
I - The Fandom of the Opera
What
happens when a 125-year-old institution marries a 400-year-old art form
to
21st-century technology? An engineering Emmy award, happy
viewers, and a
pile of money. The Metropolitan Opera has been transmitting
live in HD
and surround sound to cinemas around the world, and has repeatedly
finished in
Canada's top-ten in weekend theatrical box-office gross -- for a single
showing! Learn how robotic tracks and towers, multiple
control rooms, a
unique multi-language live subtitling system, and an extraordinary ad
hoc
network of satellites and fiber reaches from 400 km north of the Arctic
Circle
to 19 ships at sea. Ultra-high-definition, stereoscopic 3-D,
and satellite
delivery to the South Pole? Be amazed!
Part II - Size Matters: The Format
Factor & the Optics of HDTV
Can
iris settings change
resolution? What's the difference between resolution and
sharpness?
How does image-sensor size determine whether a camera is better suited
to news
or drama? And, can you really fix it in
post? Learn how to
translate shot sizes, depth of field, sensitivity, and diffraction
between
camera formats. Then there are the mysterious tools of
Optical Origami
and the Functional Fingers.
Mark
Schubin
is a multiple-Emmy-award-winning SMPTE Fellow who
has been working professionally in television for more than 41 years. He presented a keynote at
the 2008 SMPTE
Toronto Technical Seminar.
Refreshments
sponsored by:
The
SMPTE Board of Managers will meet in RCC-102 starting at 4:10
PM.
Members
are invited to join us at "The Ram in the
Rye" Ryerson Pub 63 Gould Street
(Entrance on
the west side of Church Street, just south of Gould, through lower
patio) MAP
Starting
at 5:15pm.
Individual dinner cheques will be issued upon
request.
SMPTE Toronto
Meetings Live Web Stream
Due to the number of
requests by SMPTE Members who live and work outside of the Toronto area,
the Toronto Section of SMPTE will stream all meetings live when the
meeting is in a location where streaming is technically possible.
Where not possible, the meeting will be recorded, encoded and added to
the "Toronto Meeting Archive". (See the link below or on the left margin
of this page).
During meeting
times, Click
here for the Windows Media live stream.
These live
webcasts are made possible through the facilities of Ryerson
University.
For the SMPTE
Toronto Meeting Archive (media from previous meetings) click HERE.
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Us!!
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