How are you fairing in your corner of the world? This winter, I am reminded again of how lucky we are to be a part of a global community. It means we can find other people who know what we are talking about, technologically speaking that is! And it also means we can accomplish great things together.
With little more than a month into my term as your president, I want to be sure you know that: Read more
SMPTE Brings First-of-a-Kind Language Metadata Table Register Into Its Agile New Public CD Process
In collaboration with MESA, SMPTE® is bringing the media industry's first human- and machine-readable Language Metadata Table (LMT) into its public review process, an early step toward SMPTE standardization. Published as a SMPTE Public Committee Draft (CD), the vetted and approved list of language codes will be readily available for public comment, implementation, and validation. Read more
Metadata Everywhere
In today’s complex hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud world, media assets are anywhere and everywhere ⎯ and so is the associated metadata. In order to deliver on the ‘intelligence’ in intelligent file transfer software, Signiant generates, extracts, manages, and takes actions based on all sorts of metadata. From chain of custody information to providing a federated view of distributed media assets to pre-transfer asset compliance, learn how Signiant’s SDCX SaaS platform works with metadata across distributed content repositories. Learn MoreSponsored by Signiant
Section Elections:
The SMPTE 2021 Section Elections process is in full swing, and the Sections have begun submitting their candidates for Chair, Secretary/Treasurer, and Managers. If you'd like to be a part of the Section on a leadership level, speak with your local Section Chair. See a list of Section leadership here. Please be sure to visit the Sections Administrative Toolkit on the SMPTE website, for more information on Section procedures, policies, and deadlines. Section Elections open on Monday 15 March 2021, 12:00AM (GMT), and close Monday 26 April, 2021 11:59 PM (GMT).
Student Paper Award:
SMPTE's Student Paper Award honors a Student Member that prepares and submits an outstanding paper dealing with some technical phase of motion pictures, television, photographic instrumentation, or their closely allied arts and sciences. The paper will be published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, providing recognition both for the author and the institution at which the work was done. The deadline for paper entries is 10 May 2021. Learn more here.
Louis F. Wolf Jr. Memorial Scholarship:
The Louis F. Wolf Jr., Memorial Scholarship offers $5,000 toward the cost of tuition at the student's educational institution. The scholarship is open to SMPTE student members who are full-time undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in an accredited two- or four-year college or university. Application deadline is 10 May 2021. Click here for more information
Registration is Open for the 2021 HPA Tech Retreat!
While the HPA Tech Retreat has long been recognized as the common ground forum of the industry's most thoughtful technical minds, this year’s event, positioned at the confluence of the pandemic’s impact and a technology renaissance, will be a Tech Retreat like no other.
Set for March 15–24, the 2021 HPA Tech Retreat will, as in years past, feature the industry’s most informed voices.