Standards: Appendix B - Special Interest Groups January 5^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

These are a few examples of special interest groups that operate in the media and broadcasting sphere. They publish useful supporting materials that will help you deploy standards-based products.

Standards: Appendix A - Standards Creating Organizations January 5^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

This list of standards creating organizations is not exhaustive but it does describe the important ones whose standards are in everyday use in a broadcasting environment.

Standards: Part 1 - An Introduction To Standards January 5^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

Welcome to the first in a series that sets out to become a comprehensive guide to the array of standards which are the glue that holds our technology and our industry together. Standards can be complex but they make everything work consistently and reliably. It will be a very long…

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Finishing January 4^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

The goal with in-camera LED wall based virtual production is to capture the final image on set, to eliminate the need for compositing in Post. How much is left to finishing and grading?

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Emerging RGBW Technology December 21^st 2023 - 09:00 AM

New technology in the manufacture of LED video wall panels has the potential to bring improvements to how color is reproduced and to expand the creative options available within virtual production.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Image Based Lighting December 7^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Ensuring consistency of lighting between the virtual world and physical objects on set requires controlling production lighting based on image content.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Part 4 - Uniting The Physical & The Virtual November 24^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

Virtual Production For Broadcast is a major 12 article exploration of the technology and techniques of LED wall based virtual production approached with broadcast studio applications in mind. Part 4 examines image based lighting, new developments in RGBW LED technology and what is typically left for finishing in post.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Motion Capture November 9^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

One of the creative advantages of virtual production for performers is seeing the virtual environment in which they are performing. Using motion capture techniques extends this into capturing the motion of performers to drive CGI characters. New technologies are rapidly transforming the creative freedom this brings.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Capturing Objects In 3D November 2^nd 2023 - 09:00 AM

Sometimes, there’ll be a need to represent real-world objects in the virtual world. Simple objects could be built like any VFX asset; more complex ones might be better scanned as a 3D object, something some studios have begun to consider as a service to offer.

Virtual Production For Broadcast: Shooting Locations For Virtual Production October 26^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Sending out a crew to capture a real-world environment can be a more straightforward option than creating a virtual world, but there are some quite specific considerations affecting how the material is shot and prepared for use.

An Introduction To Network Observability May 23^rd 2024 - 09:00 AM

The more complex and intricate IP networks and cloud infrastructures become, the greater the potential for unwelcome dynamics in the system, and the greater the need for rich, reliable, real-time data about performance and error rates.

2024 BEITC Update: ATSC 3.0 Broadcast Positioning Systems May 15^th 2024 - 10:00 AM

Move over, WWV and GPS. New information about Broadcast Positioning Systems presented at BEITC 2024 provides insight into work on a crucial, common view OTA, highly precision, public time reference that ATSC 3.0 broadcasters can easily provide.

Next-Gen 5G Contribution: Part 2 - MEC & The Disruptive Potential Of 5G May 14^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

The migration of the core network functionality of 5G to virtualized or cloud-native infrastructure opens up new capabilities like MEC which have the potential to disrupt current approaches to remote production contribution networks.

Designing IP Broadcast Systems: Addressing & Packet Delivery May 7^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

How layer-3 and layer-2 addresses work together to deliver data link layer packets and frames across networks to improve efficiency and reduce congestion.

Next-Gen 5G Contribution: Part 1 - The Technology Of 5G April 29^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

5G is a collection of standards that encompass a wide array of different use cases, across the entire spectrum of consumer and commercial users. Here we discuss the aspects of it that apply to live video contribution in broadcast production.

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