Date: May 17, 2018 7am – 11am PT | 2pm – 6pm GMT
Choose from any or all of 3 talks in AWS Elemental’s online conference:
So if you missed out on NAB, or the AWS’s QVBR Webinar the other day, sign up and watch!
Megha Manohara discusses Netflix’s ongoing efforts to reduce the bitrate of movies whilst maintaining their enjoyability showing their success right down to 250kbps.
As a Senior Software Engineering on Video Algorithms, Megha’s talk focuses on the research and implementation challenges of Dynamic optimizer – an innovative shot-based encoding tool that raises the perceptual quality of streams at bitrates as low as 250kbps. Visiting VMAF, PSNR and other metrics on the way, this talk gives great ideas on reducing bitrate and measuring success.
See also, her article on per-shot encoding.
From AWS re:Invent 2017, Michael Koetter from Turner and Bhavik Vyas from AWS explain that Turner is creating a copy of CNN’s 37-year news video library in AWS to take advantage of the cost and architectural benefits of cloud storage.
This project has unique requirements around retrieval times, and Turner partnered with AWS to drive specific capabilities such as those Amazon Glacier expedited and bulk retrieval options. These cloud-based archives can enable Turner to use other cloud-based value-add services, such as AI/ML/search, and media supply chains efficiently. Turner’s global content exploitation strategies call for extensive versioning of content assets required for distribution to different platforms, products, and regions.
Today, this involves complex workflows to derive multiple downstream versions. Adopting the SMPTE Interoperable Mastering Format (IMF) and cloud-based object storage, Turner will dramatically simplify these workflows by enabling cloud-based automation and elastic scalability. Hear Turner’s strategy, implementation around these media workloads, and lessons learned.
Speakers:
Michael Koetter, SVP, Digital Media Systems, Turner
Bhavik Byas, Global Ecosystem Leader, M&E, AWS
Why did chroma key change from blue to green? Well it’s about the move from film to digital.
This video is an amazing combination of the history of chroma key, how it works, how to avoid the pitfalls (did someone mention double or triple keying?) and a healthy dose of parody.
If you can’t handle comedy, jump to 1:50 for the first segment.
On second thoughts, if you can’t handle comedy – come back tomorrow for a talk on ‘How to reduce latency and startup times’. See you then! 😉
Serious now:
a) Watch It
b) Subscribe to Captain Disillusion’s YouTube Channel – if you like this, there’s plenty more to see
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