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TORONTO – June 9, 2016 – The Toronto Section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®), a leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, will host Boot Camp VII – “Pixels & Packets: Exploring UHD, HDR, and Live IP” – June 21-22 at the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre at Ryerson University, Toronto. Presented as one of the Section’s popular biennial technical seminars, this event will explore ultra-high-definition (UHD), high-dynamic-range (HDR), and live internet protocol (IP) technologies. “We have designed our newest boot camp to address the rapid and wide-ranging changes taking place in pixels and packets delivery,” said Tony Meerakker, chair of the SMPTE Toronto Section. “Through two days of sessions led by industry experts and accomplished professionals, we’ll help engineers get a better handle on new technologies, formats, and standards and how they can be leveraged to improve the efficiency of current and future content creation and delivery workflows.” Boot Camp VII will feature top-tier keynote speakers, theater-style seating, a comfortable and intimate industry trade show, and technology demonstrations. Presentations at the SMPTE Toronto Section’s Boot Camp VII will focus on topics including:  Image acquisition UHD: bigger,...

The portable and affordable ergonomic surface provides intelligent, versatile studio control, giving users the power and control to create better sounding mixes more efficiently. Burlington, MA, June 3, 2016: Avid® today announced that the highly anticipated Pro Tools® | Dock, a portable, affordable surface that gives audio and music professionals intelligent studio control, is now available. Delivering on Avid Everywhere®, Pro Tools | Dock provides users a combination of touch and tactile control to create better sounding mixes more efficiently. Working together with an iPad running the free Pro Tools | Control app, users get the access, integration, and precision to edit and mix faster and more creatively than ever. Powered by the Avid MediaCentral® Platform, Pro Tools | Dock is based on the advanced touchscreen workflows of the award-winning Pro Tools | S6 and the hybrid touchscreen/hardware control of the bestselling Avid Artist | Control surface. Users can navigate large projects quickly and access any track instantly on the iPad touchscreen, bringing it to the surface fader, knobs and switches. With Pro Tools | Dock, users can work with their favorite EUCON®-enabled DAWs and video editing tools, including Pro Tools, Media Composer®, Logic Pro X, Cubase, and Premiere Pro....

London, United Kingdom, June 1, 2016: NEP Visions, one of the world’s most distinguished outside broadcast service providers, chose a Leader LV5940 4K multi-format waveform monitor as the master reference instrument during the recent UHD capture of Martin McDonagh’s play, Hangman. Performed at the Wyndham Theatre in London’s West End, the production has received very positive reviews including an accolade from The Telegraph as ‘the best new play of the year’. “The LV5940 proved very useful both for initial lineup and during the stage production,” says Chris Cannon, Head of Vision & VT at NEP Visions. “It enabled us to ensure precise phase alignment between the four HD-SDI channels that carry the UHD signal stream. We also used the LV5490 to check the colorimetry of the six Sony PMW-F55 cameras we used for for the project. It performed very well and has the further advantage of being extremely compact.” The resultant 173 minute production, starring David Morrissey, Andy Nyman and Johnny Flynn, has been delivered to Vue Cinema audiences around the UK as a 4K Digital Cinema Package. It was created by National Theatre Live in partnership with the Royal Court and Playful Productions. “Leader was the first manufacturer to...

BURLINGTON, Mass. – May 24, 2016 – Volicon, now part of Verizon Digital Media Services, today announced that it will highlight new OTT and path-monitoring capabilities within the Multiviewer option for the company’s Observer Media Intelligence Platform®. The Multiviewer option unites the platform’s recording capability with multiviewer functionality to give users access to multiple live or recorded programs, complemented by frame-accurate data, on a monitor wall or other display. Using the newly introduced dashboarding traffic-light approach, users can monitor numerous linear and OTT channels, and all their renditions, and quickly identify technical issues. “Today’s broadcaster must manage an increasing number of channels and platforms while simultaneously maintaining the highest levels of service quality,” said Gary Learner, chief technology officer at Volicon. “However, no facility can reasonably monitor all OTT feeds in their many renditions, with various resolutions, bit rates, and formats. Our enhanced Multiviewer option addresses this challenge, enabling users to tailor dashboards to their monitoring roles and responsibilities, with ‘red light’ and ‘green light’ status applied to individual streams or to configurable groups of streams and displayed along with video and metadata windows according to user preferences. With this approach, it’s possible to streamline quality-of-experience OTT monitoring at the...

As you probably know, Facebook is a vast social media platform that offers numerous ways for people to interact with one another and just generally enjoy have a good time. One of Facebook’s most popular features is the ability to run third-party apps. If you can think of something you’d like to do on Facebook, there’s probably an app that makes it possible. And many apps are indeed quite useful. But there’s something you need to know about Facebook apps: Some of them can be downright dangerous! An app that’s poorly written or written with mal intent can cause all kinds of strange unexplained issues with your Facebook experience: Photos, status updates and comments that you’ve posted will simply disappear without a trace. Photos, status updates and comments that you didn’t post will show up on your Timeline or in your friends’ newsfeeds, making it appear that you’re responsible for posting them. And when that happens they’re usually posts that put you in a bad light. Your friends start receiving Instant Messages that appear to have been sent by you, even though you never sent them. Miscellaneous glitches of all types will have you ready to pull your hair out....

The world is increasingly embracing process automation, and robotics is no longer purely a science fiction scenario, but a reality that is knocking on our door. Companies all over the world have already started to prepare by reshaping and considering, at a larger scale, their global business services model. The process actually began decades ago, and companies must continue to embrace technological change, reinvent and innovate in order to keep up. Digital transformation affects virtually all aspects of a business from services development and marketing, to organisation management and international operations with multiple subsidiaries. In Central and Eastern Europe, multinational companies have been automating core business operations such as lead-to-cash or procure-to-pay functions, by using enterprise resource planning (ERP) – the most complex solution to streamline processes and data across multiple business units of the organisation. Some companies are turning to cloud-based financial solutions, to support their accounting, payroll and debt collection functions. Fintech solutions are well-accepted by financial/fiscal authorities, however some limitations and special requirements remain. [bctt tweet="Some companies are turning to cloud-based financial solutions, to support their accounting, payroll and debt collection functions - How technology is driving the future of business in Central and Eastern Europe"] Romanian...

Cybersecurity requires a holistic organizational approach. From the leadership to each rank-and-file employee, a concerted effort must be maintained to establish, execute and follow-through with a plan to address cyber-risk management from all corners of the organization. Although there is no one-size-fits-all plan for organizations’ cyber-risk management needs, there are basic, core principles every organization should adhere to in order to maintain a solid security posture in the face of persistent attacks. “Cybersecurity doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Just as the threats are interconnected, so are the solutions.” Below are the five most common mistakes organizations make when it comes to defending their assets from cyber adversaries and how to prevent them. Mistake 1: Assuming you’re not a target. From Wall Street to Main Street, whether large or small, companies in virtually every industry are vulnerable to attacks. Often, however, the stories that make the news headlines are about theft of credit card data or personally identifiable information. As a result, companies that don’t handle this type of data often believe they are not a desirable target for cyber adversaries. In reality, adversaries are conducting massive campaigns in every sector of the economy to penetrate networks and exfiltrate information and...

The IABM attended this SMPTE Standards meeting round and has compiled an executive summary highlighting project developments that are most relevant to members. The Executive Summary is available to members on this website page. It is necessarily brief and selective; more information on projects that we believe to be relevant to members’ products can be found in the IABM’s full report on the same website page. For brief details of all 150-odd active projects, see SMPTE’s own report here. Please note that it may take a few days for these other reports to be available after the posting of this Executive Summary. New Relevant Projects Started in Last Quarter: Revision of ST 2071-3:2014 Media Device Control Discovery (MDCD) Open Binding of IDs; new RP 2112-11 on OBID Conformance Test Materials IMF Immersive Audio Bitstream Level 0 Plug-In Studio Video over IP Transport ST 2110 Part 22: VC-2 HQ Profile Video Revision of RP 2080-2 Measurement and Calibration Procedure for HDTV Display Luminance Levels and Chromaticity Revision ST 2059-1 Generation and Alignment of Interface Signals to the SMPTE Epoch Revision ST 2059-2 SMPTE Profile for Use of IEEE-1588 Precision Time Protocol in Professional Broadcast Applications RP 2091-2 Ruggedized Optical Connector System...

This SMPTE Standards meeting round was hosted by Sky Television in London, England 20-23 September 2017. The IABM’s detailed report from this meeting round can be found on this IABM Technology website page. If you would prefer just an executive summary, there is one on the same page.