Upcoming Meeting:

SFSU Special Event- THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL.

Just register to attend!

Thrusday, 7 April 2021

10:30 - 11:30 (PDT)

Free Event for Students and Professionals

San Francisco State University welcomes media students and the
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) to a
special event being hosted by SMPTE, BECA—the department of
Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts—and the CSU
Entertainment Alliance, the hub for students interested in
entertainment technology careers

The topic for the meeting will be multi-camera production for live
streaming and will feature a demonstration of Telestream’s Wirecast,
a low-cost, software-based application for Mac and Windows
platforms, using Bird Dog’s versatile SDI and NDI cameras.

We will also have a virtual, first-look tour of BECA’s brand new TV
studios and production centers on the SFSU campus.

The event will be available live on Twitch and Discord 

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