SMPTE 2018


SMPTE 2018: Universal Pictures' VP of creative technologies,  Annie Chang
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Annie Chang, who has been a SMPTE Fellow for a couple of years, talks about what it means to her

SMPTE 2018: Rohde & Schwarz's Erik Dobberkau and Erik Balladares
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Rohde & Schwarz was at SMPTE showing its newest update, Clipster 6.7. Also new is SpycerNode, their new storage

SMPTE 2018: Ross Video's Jeff Moore
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At SMPTE this year, Ross' founder John Ross was presented with a President's Proclamation Award during the Conference. To

SMPTE 2018: HBO's Marc Zorn on cybersecurity and blockchain
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HBO's Marc Zorn, who was on the SMPTE Conference program committee, talks to us about cybersecurity and blockchain.

SMPTE 2018: HPA president Seth Hallen
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Seth Hallen, global strategy and business development at Pixelogic, is also president of the HPA (Hollywood Professionals Association). He talks

SMPTE 2018: SMPTE's Standards Team: Bruce Devlin, Thomas Bause Mason and Karissa Rupnarain
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The SMPTE Standards team answers the question: "What's a Standard?" They walk us through how a standard becomes a

SMPTE 2018: Intel's Doug Davis
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Intel's SVP of Automated Driving Group, Doug Davis, talked about autonomous cars during his SMPTE presentation and focused on

SMPTE 2018: Fox VP of engineering and development Thomas Edwards
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Thomas Edwards was the co-chair of SMPTE 2018's program committee. He talks about the process of choosing which

SMPTE 2018: Kalmus Medal-winner Rod Bogart
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Rod Bogart, who has held positions at Pixar, ILM and, most recently, HBO, was at SMPTE this year to collect

SMPTE 2018: Fraunhofer IIS's Siegfried Foessel
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Siegfried Foessel is head of department for moving picture technology at Germany's Fraunhofer IIS. He was at SMPTE chairing

SMPTE 2018: Women in Technology Lunch speakers Kari Grubin and Rachel Payne
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Kari Grubin helped found Women in Post and Rachel Payne is CEO of Fem Inc. Payne has held positions at

SMPTE 2018: SMPTE Executive Director Barbara Lange
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SMPTE's executive director Barbara Lange fills us in on SMPTE's new strategic plan, this year's presentations and

SMPTE 2018: UCLA Anderson's Beverly Macy on blockchain
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Beverly Macy is an adjunct at UCLA Anderson. She tells us what blockchain is and the affect it could have

SMPTE 2018: The Academy's Andy Maltz
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Andy Maltz, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, dropped by to talk to us about ACES, Spectral

SMPTE 2018: The Studio-B&H's Michel Suissa
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Michel Suissa from The Studio - B&H, the sustaining sponsor for the NY chapter of SMPTE, talks about the

SMPTE 2018: Past SMPTE president Wendy Aylsworth
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Past SMPTE president Wendy Aylsworth — who retired from Warner Bros. after 23 years at the studio — started out

SMPTE 2018: Hollywood Section Manager for SMPTE Ramon Breton
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Ramon Breton, Hollywood Section Manager for SMPTE, gives us a rundown of some highlights from the show, including AI and

SMPTE 2018: Warner Bros.' Michael Zink, a new SMPTE Fellow
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Debra Kaufman talked with VP of technology at Warner Bros. Michael Zink, who was named a SMPTE Fellow this year

SMPTE 2018: Atto's Carllene Mowry
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Atto's Carllene Mowry talks about the company's high-performance, low-latency connectivity for a variety of network and

SMPTE 2018: DigitalFilm Tree's Ramy Katrib
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DigitalFilm Tree's Ramy Katrib talks about how Blockchain can help the media and entertainment market.

SMPTE 2018: Oscar-winner Tom Scott
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postPerspective's Randi Altman chatted with SMPTE fellow and Oscar-winner Tom Scott outside the Fellows Lunch during SMPTE. He

SMPTE 2018: Emotion Systems' Cindy Zuelsdorf
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Emotion Systems exhibited at SMPTE and showed simple, automated CALM and loudness compliance for broadcasters. Plus, they showed how post

SMPTE 2018: Digital Glue's Nick Anderson
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Nick Anderson talks about Digital Glue is a systems integrator that recently launched creative.space, which offers on-premises managed

SMPTE 2018: Elements' CTO Heiner Lesaar
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Elements, a sponsor of the SMPTE conference this year, makes storage products featuring easy-to-use interfaces. They were at

SMPTE 2018: Fox Sports Technical Director Pamela Phelps
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postPerspective's Randi Altman caught up with Fox Sports Technical Director Pam Phelps at the Women in Technology lunch. She

SMPTE 2018: Cinnafilm's Ernie Sanchez
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Cinnafilm was at SMPTE this year showing PixelStrings, the cloud representation of all of the company's image processing technologies

SMPTE 2018: Framestore's Mike McGee
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Framestore Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer Mike McGee stopped by to talk to us about his SMPTE presentation and

SMPTE 2018: Eastern Region Governor Renard Jenkins
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Renard Jenkins is an Eastern Region Governor for SMPTE as well as Vice President of PBS Operations, Engineering & Distribution

SMPTE 2018: Blackmagic Design's Dan May
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postPerspective's Dayna McCallum with Blackmagic's Dan May at his booth at SMPTE. Blackmagic, whose products span the entire

SMPTE 2018: SMPTE Fellow and RIT professor David Long
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David Long, who is a professor at RIT, is enjoying one year in as a SMPTE Fellow. We caught up

SMPTE 2018: Efilm's Joachim "JZ" Zell
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Technical Director and VP, Imaging Science at Efilm, Joachim "JZ" Zell is a SMPTE Hollywood Section Manager. Their mission is

SMPTE 2018: SunDog Media Toolkit's Richard Welsh and Tomasz Witkowski
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SunDog Media Toolkit is a software as a service company to build automated processes for post and digital cinema. Both

SMPTE 2018: Sim's Jesse Korosi Greg Ciaccio
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Sim's Jesse Korosi Greg Ciaccio stopped by to talk to us about what Sim is and what it does

SMPTE 2018: Imagine's Sara Kudrle and Arvato's Yvonne Thomas talk education
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One of SMPTE's three pillars is education, and Imagine's Sara Kudrle and Arvato's Yvonne Thomas are helping

SMPTE 2018: SMPTE's Roberta Gorman and Peter Wharton talk membership
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Roberta Gorman and Peter Wharton talk about how to become a SMPTE member and what that membership provides.

SMPTE 2018: IEEE's Naveen Maddali
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Ever wonder what IEEE does? The organization's Senior Product Manager, Planning and Implementation, Naveen Maddali, explains.

SMPTE 2018: Kevin Joyce on SMPTE's strategic business plan
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Kevin Joyce consulted with SMPTE on their new three-year strategic business plan. He tells Debra Kaufman about his background

SMPTE 2018: QNap's Daniel Francis Lyon
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QNap was at SMPTE with its Thunderbolt NAS, which offers 10G as well as Thunderbolt ports. They also had a

SMPTE 2018: MTI Film's Randy Reck
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SMPTE member Randy Reck talks about why it's important to be a member and about the standards process.

SMPTE 2018: AlphaDogs Owner Terence Curren
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AlphaDogs is a Burbank-based post house and was the production and post crew for postPerspective Live at SMPTE 2018

SMPTE 2018: Ownzones' G.O. Burton
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Ownzones Entertainment Technologies was exhibiting at SMPTE showing off Ownzones Connect, which is a native cloud-based media logistics and

SMPTE 2018: Canon's Alex Sax
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Canon, a SMPTE sponsor this year, was showing its full-frame C700 edition. Alex Sax explains that this is Canon

SMPTE 2018: OWC President Jen Soule
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OWC was a sponsor of the SMPTE Conference as well as SMPTE's Women in Technology lunch, which featured Fem

SMPTE 2018: Technologist Josh Rizzo on eSports and M&E
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The popularity of eSports will have a positive affect on the media & entertainment industry. It has almost all the

SMPTE 2018: ASG's John Norman
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First-time SMPTE exhibitors ASG are now putting more of a focus on M&E, offering big data storage

SMPTE 2018: Belden's Kyle Luther

Belden has grown over the years to include companies such as Thinklogical and Grass Valley. Belden was at SMPTE this

SMPTE 2018: Teradek's Jon Landman
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Teradek was at SMPTE demo-ing their new streaming technology that allows users to send two encoder feeds up to

SMPTE 2018: Riedel's Kevin Broce
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Riedel was at SMPTE showing off new intercom systems that target sports and other live events. Kevin Broce walks us

SMPTE 2018: Matrox's Francesco Scartozzi
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Matrox was showing its IO technology, including a new 12G board, which allows 4K workflows over one 12G connection. Their

SMPTE 2018: Cloudian's David Phillips
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Cloudian is a scalable distributed file system built around object storage. David Phillips explains that they make a software-defined