Video: The Business Benefits of IMF to a Global Production System

In this talk from Andy Wilson at Northern Waves 2018, we find that IMF, the Interoperable Master Format is not just about technology, but if anything it’s more about improving workflows today with an eye to being the foundation of future workflows and business models.
Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary release which needed 106 versions for its simultaneous worldwide release forms the example which shows how IMF helps broadcasters reduce duplicate copies, support versioning workflows, maintain quality and much more.

 

 

Mastering as a new route to save storage, costs and time – as well as look at automation as part of the process. This introductory session outlines the business benefits and use-cases that the DPP have developed with global broadcasters and online players.

Andy covers:

  • What IMF is?
  • The role of SMPTE and the DPP
  • How IMF helps the versioning workflow
  • Duplication & Storage Reduction
  • Maintaining Quality
  • It’s use with NHK’s 8K Rushes
  • Supporting Long-term Monetisation
  • Applicability to Cloud-based MAM
  • Future potential Workflows

Watch now!

Speaker

Andy Wilson Andy Wilson
Industry Principal – Media, Dropbox
Former Head of Business Development, DPP

Video: Secure Media Streaming and Delivery

Storing, preparing, and delivering media content securely involves leveraging systems that can scale and ensure top-of-the-line security. This webinar explores doing that by implementing workflows in AWS’s highly available, scalable, and secure cloud services such as Amazon S3 for storage, Amazon Elastic Transcoder, and Amazon CloudFront for delivery.

This session came from the Discovery Track at Streaming Media East and shows how you can build a media stack on AWS and use JW Player to deliver protected HTTP Live Streams (HLS) to various devices, including iOS, Android, and Windows desktops.

Speakers

Nihar Bihani Nihar Bihani
Senior Manager,
Amazon Web Services WAF
Jeroen Wijering Jeroen Wijering
Co-Founder,
JWPlayer

Video: HEVC vs AV1

Ian Trow looks at the two big names in the room, AV1 and HEVC to understand them from a business perspective as well as technical.

Speaking at the Northern Waves conference, Ian covers:

  • Head-end options
  • OPEX & CAPEX
  • Cloud vs traditional
  • Encoding challenges and latency
  • Evaluation criteria (Functionality, TCO, Time to Market and more)
  • AV1 for OTT
  • Royalties
  • Encoding Structure
  • CDN Savings
  • AV1 Timeline
  • …so quite a bit then!

Watch now!
and check out the technical paper Ian presented on AV1 at IBC 2018

Speaker

Ian Trow Ian Trow
Consultant,
Codec & Video Tech Evangelist

Video: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking

From the NANOG conference (North American Network Operators’ Group), Richard A Steenbergen tells us everything we need to know about fibre optics; essential knowledge in today’s network-centric world – though fibre has been in frequent use in broadcast for a long time.

Whether this is new to you, or you’ve been using fibre for ages, you’re sure to get something out this detailed look at optics covering:

  • How fibre works (the basics, fibre types and limitations, etc)
  • Optical power (understanding dBm, loss, using light meters, etc)
  • Working with optics (choosing the right type, designing optical networks, etc)
  • DWDM (how it works, muxes, OADMs and ROADMs, amps, etc)
  • Dispersion and other impairments (what is it, why do we care, how do we fix it)
  • Optical Myths (can I hurt myself looking into fibre, can I overload my optic, etc)
  • An update on the latest state-of-the-art optical technologies and trends.

You may also want to check out this page on the different types of fibre connectors

Speaker

Richard A Steenbergen Richard A Steenbergen
Former CTO, PacketFabric,
Current CEO, Petabit Scale