AES Tackles Online Content Loudness November 5^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

It was on December 13, 2011 that the Federal Communications Committee (FCC, the governmental body that oversees TV broadcasting in the U.S.), along with many irritated consumers, had had enough and decided to do something about the often times huge disparity in the audio level of commercials versus program content. This…

Creative Analysis: Part 10 - Cinematographer John Brawley On The Great November 3^rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Cinematographer John Brawley finds himself happily amidst of an unprecedented renaissance of high-end television. The Great is a production that presents a lavish (if fictionalised) spectacle of eighteenth-century Russia, with Brawley photographing five episodes, with the remainder shot by Maja Zamojda and Anette Haellmigk. Ranging from the Royal Palace of…

The Sponsors Perspective: Monitoring Immersive Audio November 2^nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Genelec Senior Technologist Thomas Lund starts down the road to ideal monitoring for immersive audio by looking at what is real, and how that could or should be translated for the listener.

AI Based & GPU Accelerated Compression & Image Processing Are Igniting Video’s Afterburner October 30^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The impact of AI on videoconferencing bandwidth reduction couldn’t be accelerating at a more opportune time.

The Sponsors Perspective: Effectively Using The Power Of Immersive Audio October 27^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Lawo’s Christian Scheck takes a tour of console functions and features that have a special place in immersive audio production, and how they are developing.

HDR: Part 15 - Using Vintage Stills Lenses For Digital Cinematography October 23^rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

In the mid-70s, Canon released the K35 series of primes, based on its then top-of-the-line FD mount stills lenses. It wasn’t the first or last time a set of glass elements designed for stills had been repackaged for movie work, but the K35s won an Academy Award i…

Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 5 - Processing Gamma Corrected Signals October 22^nd 2020 - 09:00 AM

It is unwise to pretend that gamma corrected signals can successfully be multiplied, added and subtracted in a matrix as if they represented linear light. Yet in television it is done all the time.

The Sponsors Perspective: Notre Dame’s IP-Based Campus Crossroads Project October 20^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Here, we take a look at the landmark installation at the University of Notre Dame that highlights one of the biggest advantages of IP-based systems - flexibility. In the past networks have required a lot of cables and interconnections, today, a single cable can deliver every signal to any endpoint…

Creative Analysis: Part 9 - Cinematographer Cathal Watters On Alienist: Angel Of Darkness October 19^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Recreating a period New York in Hungary might seem an unreasonable challenge until it becomes clear that the country has become a hub for international production with at least two large-scale backlots for just that purpose. In the summer of 2019, these facilities were leveraged by The Alienist: Angel of Darkness,…

Digital Audio: Part 4 - ADC’s & The Mathematics Of Quantization & Dither October 15^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Digital audio relies completely on the accuracy of quantization and it is important to see how it works.