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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.

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Standards and a Movie at Dolby

Event Type(s):
Section Meeting
Event Date(s)
04 Dec 2018
This is one you won't want to miss!

Join the SMPTE Engineering Standards team at Dolby Labs' new facility on Market Street for a brief update on standards activity, followed by a movie presentation in Dolby's state of the art Dolby Vision and Atmos equipped theatre.

Bruce Devlin, SMPTE's Standards VP, will give us a brief overview of the current state of play in the various standards sub-committees. 

This will be followed by a movie - title TBD, presented in HDR onthe Dolby Vision projectors, and featuring full Atmos sound.

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The SMPTE 2110 suite and NMOS IS-06

Event Type(s):
Section Meeting
Event Date(s)
27 Sep 2018

SMPTE-2110 is providing standardization for IP as the underlying infrastructure for professional media production. In delivering more than the efficacy that we have achieved with SDI, SMPTE-2110 has developed as a suite of standards with the incorporation of new options, the latest of which is NMOS IS-06. Ms. Dhesikan's talk will focus on the relationship between the publications of NMOS IS-04, 05, -06 with respect to Broadcast IP workflows that provide device discovery, media flow setup and transport of media between sources and destinations.  Ms.

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ET@2018 - Where Technology Drives Storytelling

Event Type(s):
Conference
Event Date(s)
13 Jun 2018 to 14 Jun 2018

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What's in your 4K toolbox?

Event Type(s):
Section Meeting
Event Date(s)
22 Feb 2018

Today’s film and television standards are getting better and better, and professionals need more powerful products to help them create better looking, more compelling content. With things like 4K and IP technologies already in play, users need to know how to transition to new technologies effectively, and need to have the proper workflow and knowledge in place to manage content properly. In this presentation, David Hoffman will discuss the latest standards in the industry, and the products that provide support for their needs of today and a path to the future.

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Lightweight Air-Ready masters with AAC in MXF

Event Type(s):
Section Meeting
Event Date(s)
16 Nov 2017

TOPIC:  AAC has been selected by PBS for their next generation file distribution to member stations via non-real-time means.  The mapping of MPEG Advanced Audio Compression (AAC) into MXF was recently standardized by SMPTE as ST 381-4.  This talk will describe the user needs driving this, the necessary metadata to enable automated processing of these, the audio fidelity required, and some of the MXF specifics of wide interest.

 

PRESENTER: Patrick Waddell

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