Russell Trafford-Jones, Author at The Broadcast Knowledge

Webinar: The Art of Visual Effects – How the ILM Art Department Works from Vision to Post

Posted on 17th July 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

July 19th 2018, 5:30pm PDT, 8:30 ET
The HPA Young Entertainment Professionals (YEP) will be teaming up with Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) for the third webinar in the series, The Art of Visual Effects: How the ILM Art Department works from vision to post.

The previous webinars are now available as an on-demand videos, see bottom of this post.

The ILM Art Department is a key component to both pre-production and post-production workflows. This webinar illustrates the role of the Art Department in feature film development from concept art through visual effects design and marketing imagery, all working within the director’s vision. Tune in for illustrations of developing stories and ideas as well as the technical and creative problem solving at work in VFX post-production. This webinar will be presented by ILM’s Creative Director David Nakabayashi and Global Senior Department Manager Jennifer Coronado.

The YEP webinar series is geared towards early- to mid-career M&E professionals and is one facet of the YEP programme’s commitment to facilitating industry education on standards and practices as they relate to business, production, technology, and emerging trends.

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to have these experts take you through their workflow processes from every angle. Register now!

Previous Webinars:
Color Theory and the Art of Color
End to End Scripted Episodic Workflows

Meeting: Post with the Pros – Intelligent Adobe Workflows

Posted on 16th July 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Thursday 19th July, 17:30 BST
Location: 8 Golden Square, Soho W1F 9HY

Join Jigsaw24 for an evening of Adobe and Workflows!

The Post with the Pros team 19th July looks at intelligent Adobe workflows for post, and how you can adapt your workflow for maximum efficiency and creativity.

Come along to find out about the cutting edge Premiere Pro editing system being used in Russia for the World Cup from Adobe Master Trainer Alex Macleod. There’ll be discussion panels with users from media and corporate companies, presentations from manufacturers including FlavourSys, Adobe and Qumulo on the power of shared storage and asset management.

En evening of discussion, demos and the obligatory free beer! Sign up now!

Webinar: Integrating AI in media content workflows

Posted on 13th July 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Thursday 19th July, 16:00 BST
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are starting to transform the way content is created, managed and delivered.

New cognitive-computing tools are enhancing creativity, eliminating mundane repetitive work and unlocking new value from content.

AI is suddenly everywhere: the ready availability of powerful AI services from all the major cloud providers means hundreds of media technology products are plugging into AI and offering new ways of working.

This webinar cuts through the hype to reveal how media companies are actually using AI tools throughout the content supply chain – from aiding craft and creative work in post-production, automating metadata extraction and compliance, to making smart content recommendations to audiences. The speakers will explain how best to use AI, what we can and can’t do, and how it will continue to change workflows into the future.

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Speakers:

	Michael Gamböck, Senior Strategy Relations EMEA, Creative Cloud Video, Adobe
	Josh Wiggins, Chief Commercial Officer, GrayMeta
	Neil Taylor, Lead Data Strategist for Commercial Innovations, Channel 4
	Jean-Pierre Evain, Principal Project Manager, EBU Artificial Intelligence Committee
	Moderator: Robert Ambrose, Managing Consultant, High Green Media

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Video: Control Throughput and Latency for Multicast-based IP Routing Systems

Posted on 12th July 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

John Mailhot explains throughput and latency in switches and discusses live SDI switching in IP, subscription and control using NMOS 5 and 6. John then takes some time to discuss what ‘good enough’ is for switching time given SDI also has a delay.

Finishing up with network topology and interoperability, this is a great look into some of the details of dealing with 2110.

The SMPTE 2110 family of essence networking protocols is based on multicast flows in the IP network. IGMP (Internet Group Multicast Protocol) is the typical method for endpoints to subscribe to the streams they want, and to leave the streams they no longer require. Concerns have been raised in the industry about the suitability of IGMP for this task, and the applicability of SDN techniques as an alternative means to managing group memberships. Speed of switching signals is a particular concern.