<img height="1" width="1" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=414634002484912&amp;ev=PageView%20&amp;noscript=1">
Donate
WE MOVED!
New Address: 50 Main Street, Suite 1000 White Plains NY, 10606
Donate

San Francisco

Welcome to the San Francisco Section of SMPTE.

YouTube Join Our Friends List

Home to many of the early developments in television, the San Francisco Bay area continues to innovate and enable the creation, production and dissemination of rich media.

The San Francisco section of SMPTE offers a local forum for membership to be informed and educated on the rapidly emerging developments in the technology of our industry.

We are very pleased to welcome De Anza College as our new Student Chapter. Check out the videos on our YouTube page (Link above the picture).

The San Francisco section welcomes everyone to our meetings.

The section thanks our local sponsors

Upcoming Event:

May 2025 Meeting 

NAB Show Discussion with SMPTE Students

JOIN SMPTE FOR THIS SPECIAL EVENT FOR PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS

What do TV/Film/Digital Media Students think about the industry’s biggest international tradeshow?

 

Calling all SMPTE members, students, faculty, and digital media enthusiasts! 

 

Join us for a student’s perspective on the NAB Show 2025, held just a few weeks ago at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with thousands of exhibits spread over three buildings and more than 50,000 attendees. NAB provides demonstrations and insights into the forefront of digital media technology. 

 

Representatives from the SMPTE Student Chapters at City College San Francisco and De Anza College, sponsored by the SMPTE SF Section, attended NAB and will provide their views of what they experienced at the media industry’s largest show.

 

Presenter:  

SMPTE SF Chapter at City College SF and

San Francisco State University

SMPTE SF Chapter at De Anza College

Where: Zoom

Date: Thursday, 15 May

Time: 6:00 PM  to 7:00 PM Networking Mixer, Followed by Presentation

Register now!

Thank you to our Sponsors

Quantum Logo_2

Dolby black larger   

 Blackmagic logo  

bugid1 (Custom)

   SQUARE - CIEL_V3_FINAL-04

 

   Logo-Telestream (Custom)

Past Events

November 18, 2020

De Anza SMPTE Chapter

SMPTE San Francisco Section December Meeting - Media and Entertainment Digital Storage During a Pandemic

Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 (Add to your calendar with the crededials below

Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (PST)

Location: Online (see below for link)

Speaker: Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

With the movement to remote work, M&E storage has shifted to leveraging private and public clouds to complement local storage in today's collaborative workflows.  Digital production may be starting to recover following safety precautions and greater use of automation.   Content distribution has surged to entertain those who are stuck at home.  At the same time new storage and memory technologies are playing a bigger role in M&E, including NVMe SSDs and NVMe-oF based storage systems.  This talk presents results from the 2020 Digital Storage in M&E report looking at trends in 2020 and projecting into the future for digital storage for video production, post production, content distribution and archiving. 

 

About the speaker:

Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates is a digital storage analyst and business and technology consultant.  He has over 39 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions at several companies.  Coughlin Associates consults, publishes books and market and technology reports (including The Media and Entertainment Storage Report and an Emerging Memory Report), and puts on digital storage-oriented events.  He is a regular storage and memory contributor for forbes.com and M&E organization websites.  He is an IEEE Fellow, Past-President of IEEE-USA and is active with SNIA and SMPTE. For more information on Tom Coughlin and his publications and activities go to www.tomcoughlin.com.

 

Meeting Link: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/403990885

You can also dial in using your phone:

United States: +1 (646) 749-3122

Access Code: 403-990-885