All Trends articles – Page 17

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    MovieLabs looks to be the industry’s North Star

    2019-11-08T12:15:00Z

    In August MovieLabs – made up of five of the biggest Hollywood studios - launched its 10-year vision for the industry. James Pearce spoke with the organisation’s leaders at SMPTE2019 in Los Angeles. 

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    VFX: De-aging tech

    2019-11-08T11:15:00Z

    The current crop of films featuring digitally de-aged characters has brought new life to older actors, and now a pioneering example of age regression for a TV series shows just how much the technology is evolving.

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    Esports: Overcoming the pitfalls of production

    2019-11-06T15:17:00Z

    From measuring audience metrics to platform and tournament sponsorship, monetising esports is not without its challenges. IBC365 speaks with industry experts on tactics for broadcasters to deliver live esports production.

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    Behind the scenes: Diego Maradona

    2019-11-05T16:46:00Z

    Editor Chris King and director Asif Kapadia tackle Argentina’s footballing enigma, Diego Maradona, in this documentary which comes to DVD this month

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    Personalising UI with ML and voice

    2019-11-05T14:49:00Z

    In these technical papers, authors from 3 Screen Solutions, Ruwido and TiVo describe real-word applications of machine learning to customise UI, and improve voice control to enhance personalisation for user experiences.

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    Behind the scenes: His Dark Materials

    2019-11-01T10:03:00Z

    Any adaptation of Philip Pullman’s multi-layered fantasy His Dark Materials must decide how to represent the cast of animalistic ‘daemons’ which feature constantly throughout the story. Adrian Pennington spoke with key members of the VFX team to find out how. 

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    Video did not kill the radio

    2019-10-31T13:12:00Z

    As the broadcast and media industry evolves digitally and technically, so too does radio. Explore how in technical papers from IRT, Jutel Oy, Rai Italy, VRT and the BBC. 

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    Apple bites into the streaming market

    2019-10-31T12:57:00Z

    In the first of series of reports on the new players launching into the streaming market, Tim Dams looks at the Apple TV+ offer – and weighs up its chances of success.

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    The internet of things: The start of a slow revolution

    2019-10-29T17:14:00Z

    Broadcasters and other content creators will have much more consumer data to draw on as a result of the internet of things. But how to negotiate the new security challenges and avoid the danger of ‘digital fatigue’?

  • video and audio mixer for broadcast studio
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    Vision mixers: Switching it up

    2019-10-28T12:18:00Z

    The art of production mixing may not have changed profoundly in recent years, but the call to deliver to extra platforms and satisfy more streamlined productions are among the trends heralding fresh challenges for system developers.

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    Why productions should focus on security

    2019-10-25T11:43:00Z

    SMPTE 2019: Security is a key concern for the media industry, but security needs to be integrated into production cycles from the start, according to HBO’s Marc Zorn.

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    Esports amalgamation and addressability for advertisers

    2019-10-25T11:29:00Z

    The business of esports is attracting record-breaking audiences as quickly as it is gaining interest from advertisers, however, the measurement of ad success and audience engagement is as complicated as it is dense with competition.

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    5G Today: Bavaria’s broadcast trials

    2019-10-25T10:54:00Z

    5G offers great potential for media distribution of media content, with millions of smartphones and tablets as potential TV receivers for live and catch up services. That’s the view of the 5G Today group, which is conducting broadcast trials in Bavaria.

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    Behind the scenes: Official Secrets

    2019-10-25T09:17:00Z

    Telling the story with lighting, Official Secrets cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister BSC speaks to Alana Foster on how he worked with director Gavin Hood to depict the story of one woman’s moral conundrum.

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    Addressable advertising: Who’s doing what, and why

    2019-10-23T15:57:00Z

    Addressable advertising is attracting new businesses of all sizes to the TV space and enabling the likes of Sky and RTL to compete with digital giants. But in the battle to secure a healthy share of digital ad revenues, rival players must partner up, while some regions face legal and ...

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    Ad management: Broadcast stability versus online chaos

    2019-10-21T15:49:00Z

    Workflows for TV ads are a model of consistency compared to the wild west of digital, and the approach of traditional TV has a lot to teach the ‘new media’ of online video.

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    IBC2019 technical papers: Encoding

    2019-10-18T09:31:00Z

    Encoding was once again high up the agenda in the Technical Paper submissions at IBC2019.

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    Getting the industry to address the EBU Pyramid

    2019-10-17T15:40:00Z

    Subjecting 32 vendors to 8,000 individual Tests: George Jarrett talks to the EBU and BBC R&D about the JT-NM Tested Program that lit up IBC with green and red. 

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    CDNs: Innovation, higher bandwidth and interactivity

    2019-10-17T13:03:00Z

    The advent of 4K and now 8K, as well as interactive applications that require sub-1 second latency, are obliging CDN service providers to enhance capacity and efficiency, writes David Davies.

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    Call of duty

    2019-10-17T12:53:00Z

    Social media firms report that the use of AI and digital fingerprinting to screen harmful content has led to an increase in its removal as they double down in their efforts to make sites safer – but are they doing enough or will the duty of care soon become a ...