All Features – Page 23
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Industry TrendsThe evolution of post to a cloud-first model
With traditional working practices upended, rising costs and technological advances, startup post production firms are eschewing physical facilities in favour of a cloud-first approach.
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Industry TrendsNvidia: Virtual worlds will crop up like websites
Nvidia thinks it has the fabric for building the metaverse on a larger than planet scale.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes of Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast
Kenneth Branagh’s biographical family drama reclaims the city in an era where the streets had no name. Editor Una Ní Dhonghaíle speaks about cutting the drama.
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Industry TrendsIP facilities: lessons from the frontline
Senior figures from studios, broadcast groups and networks and technology suppliers came together recently to discuss early implementations of IP-based workflows, talk about their successes and learn from their mistakes.
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Industry TrendsNFS over RDMA boosts storage performance for M&E workflows
We are in a new golden era of content creation writes Gregory Shiff. The explosion of streaming services has brought an unprecedented volume of new and amazing media. Production, post-production, visual effects, animation, finishing: everyone is booked solid with work. The expectations for this content are higher than ever, with ...
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Industry TrendsThe demand for scalable DRM protection
Digital rights management technologies need to be inherently versatile and scalable as content creators look to remain one step ahead of organised piracy.
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Industry TrendsSelecting the right CPU performance benchmark
Benchmarks are vital tools for measuring the performance of Central Processing Units (CPUs) in the most popular consumer devices writes Ajay Joshi. With the advent of more complicated use cases and compute workloads, benchmarks are becoming increasingly important in the home device market, which includes digital television (DTV) and set-top ...
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Industry TrendsThe Set Top Box revolution
The world of content distribution is undergoing a transformation, creating new commercial opportunities for operators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) writes Pablo Fraile.
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Industry TrendsIBC2021 Accelerator: Immersive Audio and Sound Imagery
Due to the pandemic, many live experiences have been cancelled and those who perform have missed that live connection with an audience. This IBC Accelerator explores immersive sound and audio imagery, bridging the audio-visual gap between artist and viewers and listeners and breaking audio engineering rules by creating rich, spatialised, ...
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Industry TrendsHow Blue Note used networked AV for distanced jazz concerts
Thanks to the efforts of a close-knit technology partnership, jazz musicians in three US locations were able to play together seamlessly at a series of recent gigs.
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Industry TrendsAn OB blooms in Chelsea – behind the scenes of the BBC’s Chelsea Flower Show coverage
With more than a week of coverage, the BBC’s annual visit to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show is one of the biggest non-sporting outside broadcasts of the year.
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Industry TrendsPsychological first aid for freelancers
The Rory Peck Trust, the charity representing freelance news journalists, has teamed up with Facebook for two-part trauma and resilience pilot programme, that focusses on the treatable ‘injury’ aspects of post-traumatic stress injury rather than the tortuous ‘damage’ aspects of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Industry TrendsDune: Behind the scenes with cinematographer Grieg Fraser
“Fear is the mind-killer,” says Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides in Dune. The hero must use his mind to overcome his fear. It’s a central theme of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel and one that also resonated with DP Grieg Fraser, ACS ASC, who is taking on the hallowed science fiction tome ...
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Industry TrendsHow the Battle of Lake Changjin is set to top 2021 box office
Chinese release The Battle of Lake Changjin epitomises the use of the term ‘epic’, with some three directors, six DoPs, 70,000 extras and a record domestic box office performance.
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Industry TrendsIBC2021 Accelerators: Smart Remote Production For Real-Time Animation
Accelerating the animation pipeline without increasing the amount of kit required is the principal aim of the Smart Remote Production For Real-Time Animation Accelerator project, which is bringing together leading broadcasters and vendors to leverage the latest technological developments of markerless motion capture and speech-driven facial animation to drive CG ...
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Industry TrendsIBC launches hybrid platform IBC Digital
IBC has launched its new hybrid platform that will allow attendees to begin their IBC Show journey from today.
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Industry TrendsPandemic accelerates move towards ‘smarter, more accessible’ archiving
The importance of being able to access archive material quickly and efficiently is more widely acknowledged than ever before.
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Industry TrendsFrom C3 to LED: Inside Sony’s latest tech
Sony presented some of its latest products at a recent technology roadshow, including its C3 Portal camera in the cloud service, an entry-level switcher a new pitch-side LED solution.
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Industry TrendsJourney to a modern media supply chain
Find out about the benefits of an optimised, cloud-based media supply chain, and what it takes to get there in this ebook by media supply chain experts SDVI.
