Meeting

Meeting: BOXfest 2018

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Thu, June 28, 2018 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM BST
Location: Century Club, 61-63 Shaftesbury Ave, London, W1D 6LQ

The excellent BOXfest is back for its sixth year! On the theme of ‘Disruption’, this is a one day technology event in Central London. Following on from NAB, BOXfest highlights key technologies and products concentrating on customer case studies, sharing technology roadmaps and market trends. The audience is typically senior, technical management and engineers, with the day designed to allow time for people to network with their peers.

With the escalation of technologies including IP, AI and cloud alongside ever-changing business requirements how do you deliver future-proof solutions and innovation to your organisation?

Several technical authorities from a number of key vendors for product-agnostic presentations will provide insight into these topics:

IP – Where are we with IP?
AI – What is it and how does it affect me?
AI – Real world applications
Cloud – creating flexible infrastructure that works for media
IMF – What, why?
HDR – Real world experiences.

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Meeting: Jigsaw24 Breakfast Tech Talk

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Date: 26th June 2018, 09:00 BST
Location: Jigsaw24, 8 Golden Square, Soho, London, W1F 9HY

The Tech Breakfasts are back, this time with a look at PSE (Photosensitive Epilepsy) testing for video in broadcast. With Telestream demoing Vidchecker and the experts from root6, Phil Crawley and Matt Ward, you can find out what you need about the regulations and how to meet them…all at the same time has having a pastry and a drink.

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Meeting: IMF – A Thing of Dark Mystery or One of Simple Beauty?

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Wednesday, 6 June, 2018, 18:30 BST
Location: Pincents Manor, Pincents Lane, Calcot, Berks, RG31 4UQ

In a joint event between RTS Thames Valley and SMPTE UK Section, discover how IMF (Interoperable Master Format) will benefit broadcast and online workflows just as it has changed existing subtitling and dubbing pipelines for Film Localisation.
This meeting starts with a primer on IMF from SMPTE Standards VP Bruce Devlin (Mr MXF) who discusses the significance of the first specification (as opposed to standard) coming out of SMPTE. Steve Fish will then look at the use of IMF in Turner Internationals Television business. Finally Andy Lampard delves in to IMF for Film Localistion.
As a bonus, you may find out something about ST 2110 as well!

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Speakers:
Bruce Devlin, @MrMXF
Steve Fish is VP Media & Technology Architecture, Turner Broadcasting
Andy Lampard is the Head of Research and Development at Motion Picture Solutions.

Meeting: How Technology is Changing the Human Voice

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Date: May 30th, 18:30 BST
Professor Trevor Cox presents a talk on the changing human voice. The human voice has always been in flux, but over the last hundred years or so, changes have been accelerated by technology. Watch a video of Barcelona, a duet between rock frontman Freddie Mercury and opera soprano Montserrat Caballé, and the difference between an old and new singing style is stark. These differences are not just about taste, they are driven by technology, with amplification freeing pop singers from the athletic task of reaching the back of a venue unaided. This allows someone like Freddie to be much more individualistic.
Actors’ voices have also changed, no longer do we have actor’s projecting their plumy voice using Received Pronunciation. But now viewers complain that they can’t understand the naturalistic accents used in modern TV and film. The talk will begin with examples likes these to explore the changing voice. It will then speculate about the future of the voice. What technologies might be developed to combat the loss of intelligibility caused by mumbling actors? As conversations with computers get more common, how might that change how we speak? Some have already found that Siri is a useful tool to get children to improve their diction. ‘Photoshop for voice’ has already been demonstrated. On the surface this is a useful tool for audio editors, but it also allows unscrupulous individuals to fake speech. Rich in sound examples, the talk will draw on Trevor’s latest popular science book, Now You’re Talking (Bodley Head 2018).

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