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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.

The San Francisco section welcomes everyone to our meetings. Please check below for details of the next event.

The section thanks our local sponsors

nVIDIA

Blackmagic Designs

Bug ID

Audio Metering and Loudness the DK-Technologies way

Event Type(s):
Section Meeting
Event Date(s)
15 Apr 2014

Presenter: Karsten Hansen, Founder and CEO DK Technologies

 

DK Technologies have recently introduced the DKT7 Surround metering, compliance, and logging system. Karsten Hansen will present an in-depth look at the system, including the patented “Starfish” tool, explaining the philosophy behind the design and how to interpret the indication of the Starfish. He will demonstrate how the Starfish detects errors in the audio and makes sure that the surround sound signal is legal for downmix.

 

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GPUs in Media and Entertainment

Event Type(s):
Section Meeting
Event Date(s)
27 Feb 2014

The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), a high speed-parallel floating point processor, is the engine that powers many media and entertainment applications from pre-visualization, acquisition and post production to distribution for live to air, over the top, and consumption.  And since its inception in 1999 NVIDIA has shipped over a billion units. 

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Media Archiving at the Library of Congress

Event Type(s):
Section Meeting
Event Date(s)
23 Jan 2014

The Library of Congress serves as both a reference source for our legislators, and the official keeper of our nation’s history.  This history comes in many forms including printed, photographic, audio and video recordings, and digital files.   And while each of these forms require different techniques for their archiving, it is the electronic formats which seems to require the most ongoing attention.

 

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Media Archiving at the Library of Congress

Event Type(s):
Section Meeting
Event Date(s)
23 Jan 2014

The Library of Congress serves as both a reference source for our legislators, and the official keeper of our nation’s history.  This history comes in many forms including printed, photographic, audio and video recordings, and digital files.   And while each of these forms require different techniques for their archiving, it is the electronic formats which seems to require the most ongoing attention.

 

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Holiday Social

Event Type(s):
Section Meeting
Event Date(s)
12 Dec 2013

This is one you won’t want to miss!

 

Mark your calendar for Thursday December 12th and join the SMPTE San Francisco section for a chance of one of the best views in the South Bay as we go to the top of the Fairmont Plaza building in downtown San Jose for our Holiday Social at the Silicon Valley  Capital Club.

 

Food and Beverages, mix and mingle – there might even be a speaker!

 

Spouses, partners and friends are invited.

 

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