While many stations (and viewers) have grown accustomed to green screen weather walls and rear-projection cubes as part of their sets, LED walls are beginning to show up in greater numbers at production studios around the world. Those old virtual sets are slowly being replaced with new displays on the wall and floor as news organizations realize their immense creative potential.
Mobile World Congress has come back as a full hybrid event with a substantial physical presence in 2022 after its absence in 2020 and skeletal form in 2021, with around 55,000 attendees in Barcelona, coupled with an even larger number of online delegates.
With increasing regularity, digital cinema cameras like Sony’s VENICE and RED’s KOMODO cameras are making their way onto the fields of major live sporting events and into multi-camera video coverage to create a “cinematic” look that enhances the viewing experience.
In digital television broadcasting, what matters is that the pictures should be displayed at the correct frame rate and lip-sync should be achieved in an isochronous system.
Cooking has long been a popular subject for television, partly because everyone has to eat, but also because it’s the sort of programming that can, in principle, be turned out of a studio in half-hour chunks, several times a day.
The Fourier transform is one of the most enduring and looking at the basics is a good place to start.
In layman’s terms, SRT is an open-source video transport protocol that enables the delivery of high quality and secure, low latency video over the public internet. In more technical terms, it fixes jitter effects and bandwidth changes as a video is being streamed, while minimizing packet loss.
Everyone is trying to do more with less and the newsroom is no different. Automation offers significant benefits, including the ability to quickly make changes and adapt technically to things like work from home and remote production. But to what extent is AI taking over the newsroom?
