The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers today announced the winners of its 2017 awards, which will be presented Oct. 26 at the annual SMPTE Awards Gala as part of the SMPTE 2017 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition in Hollywood, Calif. The award recipients include: Paul E. Debevec: the 2017 Progress Medal David S. […]
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SMPTE, DPP To Tackle IMF For Broadcast, Online
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers today announced it will work with the Digital Production Partnership on a joint pilot specification project to create an IMF specification for broadcast and online. The aim of the project is to provide a technical specification for IMF in broadcast and online applications as a breakdown of […]
SMPTE Seeks Entries For 2017 Student Film Festival
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is accepting submissions for the 2017 SMPTE-HPA (Hollywood Professional Alliance) Student Film Festival. The film festival is centered on technology, and ideally, students entering the competition will be majoring in an area emphasizing engineering, science, advanced technologies, or fundamental theories associated with motion-imaging, sound, metadata and workflows, […]
Deadline Looms For SMPTE Tech Paper Abstracts
Looking for a way to avoid cutting the grass this weekend? Maybe you want an excuse not to clean out the gutters? Or, is it that oil change and tire rotation you want to postpone? Whatever it is, the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers has a plan for you: Spend the weekend writing […]
One More ST-2110 Tidbit
Earlier this week in the Playout blog, I reported on the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineer’s answer regarding publication of its draft ST-2110 standard, the professional video-over-IP standard that is coming down the runway. Since then, I’ve received a little more information from SMPTE director of engineering and standards Howard Lukk that anyone interested […]
A Little More On SMPTE 2110
My Tech Thursday article this week, “Support Growing For SMPTE IP Standard,” discussed the SMPTE 2110 standard, parts of which will begin to emerge within the next few weeks as “technically stable” pieces of the overall standard that will be ready for interoperability testing. One of the first of those is scheduled to offer at […]
SMPTE Announces 2017 Start Dates For Online Courses
The Society of Motion Picture Engineers has announced the start dates for its 2017 virtual classroom online courses on UltraHD, network architecture, structure, functions, components and models, IP media transport and IMF. The UHD course start dates for 2017 are: Jan. 9, May 29, Sept. 11 and Dec. 4. The start dates for the SMPTE’s […]
Open Interoperability Road Map Evolves
The organizations behind development of the Joint Task Force on Networked Media, also known as JT-NM, announced they have updated their road map to open interoperability. The groups, which include the European Broadcasting Union, the Advanced Media Workflow Association, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the Video Services Forum, are on record […]
SMPTE Tech Conference & Expo Honors Founder On Its Centennial
This year the Society of Motion Pictures Engineers is celebrating its centennial at the SMPTE 2016 Technical Conference & Exhibition at the Loews Hollywood Hotel with a special historical exhibit dedicated to the life and work of its founder and first president Charles Francis Jenkins. The exhibit includes a collection of early film cameras, […]
Matthew Goldman Elected SMPTE President
Members of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers have elected Matthew Goldman, SVP of technology, TV and media at Ericsson, to be president of SMPTE, effective Jan. 1, 2017, as well as a roster of 2017-18 officers and governors. Goldman is a SMPTE Fellow and has held various roles on the SMPTE […]