WHAT S HAPPENING AT A STANDARDS ORGANIZATION NEAR YOU? PETER SYMES

WHAT S HAPPENING AT A STANDARDS ORGANIZATION NEAR YOU? PETER SYMES

Organizing Around 3 Pillars

Did You Know? That SMPTE has the largest membership in 7 years? That SMPTE recently established a Section in India, the first new Section in a decade? UK Section is in process of formation That SMPTE has revitalized in many Sections around the world? That new institutional members include organizations from China, India, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Spain, UK and France?

Did You Know? That SMPTE published more than 40 standards documents in 2011? That Users Have Their Say at SMPTE Standards block meetings? That SMPTE was awarded two NATAS Emmy s for technical excellence? That SMPTE will be hosting a series of webinars specific to standards education? New outcome report from Standards meetings to be circulated quarterly

The Standards Ecosystem Applications Infrastructure and Media Management Essence and Metadata (Content) 35PM Packaging for Interchange 10 Essence (Image, Sound, Data) 30 MR Metadata, Registry 20 Film 24 TB 21 DC Media Systems Control and Services 34CS File Structures 31FS Network facility infrastructure 32NF Time and Sync 33TS

Standards Highlights Include Archive Exchange Format (AXF). Will provide standards that let archive systems exchange content independent of their physical media or their vendor of origin. Interoperable Master Format (IMF) One asset for multiple deliveries XML-based Composition PlayList (CPL) (like D-Cinema) CPL passed ballot; just one comment to resolve The new, fast Annie-driven SMPTE! (gray accents at no additional charge)

Standards Update for Broadcast Captioning Of Video for Internet Use. Big battle should there be standards??? The FCC ruled that using SMPTE 2052 is safe harbor. BXF Version 2.0. As part of the update to this highly popular traffic standard, SMPTE has elevated the revised Broadcast Exchange Format to Draft Publication status. 3.0 work already started

Standards Update for Cinema High Frame Rates For 3D and 2D D-Cinema Applications (HFR). Michael Karagosian, Kommer Kleijn, David Stump Feasibility of HFR playback on existing hardware Characterize promising technologies for best-case high frame rate playback on current and future platforms. Image Interchange Format (IIF). AMPAS initiative Details in Andy Maltz session Technical development complete In final audit process prior to publication

Advancing the Digital Leader and DPROVE Digital Leader is set of TIFFs and WAVs for leaders and footers when making DCDMs DPROVE is set of DCPs for use in theaters, viewing rooms, etc. 36 DCPs all standardized variants of 1.85, 1.9 (full container), 2.39 2-D, 3-D 24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60fps 2k, 4k Enhancements planned to add audio and captioning data

Cooperation VSF AES MPEG AMPAS SMPTE Standards ETC JPEG DCI AMWA

Did You Know? That SMPTE educates 1000 s of individuals each month through webinar and Section meetings? That SMPTE organizes and produces cuttingedge conferences, including is first event outside of the US in 2012? That SMPTE offers a virtual classroom course for CCNA training? That SMPTE launched its entire intellectual property collection onto a digital library?

Learn More By Attending These Events Technology Summit on Cinema @ NAB 14-15 April, Las Vegas, NV The Forum on Emerging Media Technologies 13-15 May, Geneva, Switzerland Regional Seminar Series File-based Workflow: How to Generate and Automate Content for Multi- Platform, Multi-Display Distribution Thursday 24 May Washington, D.C Thursday 27 September Montreal, Canada Thursday 8 November New York, NY Saturday 10 November Toronto, Canada TBA Chicago, IL &???, Florida Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition 22-25 October, Hollywood, CA

SMPTE Forum A Few Headliners

13-15 May 2012 Intercontinental Hotel Geneva, Switzerland Presenters will include leaders from IBM,MPEG, BskyB, Cisco, NHK, Intel, ATSC, Sony, EBU, RadioBremen, Grass Valley, zeebox, Ericsson, ScreenDigest, Warner Bros., Fraunhofer Institut, Radio Television Hong Kong, Australia Broadcasting Corporation, Sports Video Group and others Program includes panel discussions on Vision of the Future Clouds on the Horizon The Kids are Alright Delivering on the Future Content of the Future Show Me Where the Money Is Pulling it All Together Closing Keynote Register at www.smpteforum.org

Awards Four New Awards For 2012 Camera Origination/Imaging Digital Technology Archival Technology IT File-Based Systems

Search All SMPTE Content at the SMPTE Digital Library http://library.smpte.org A single platform for all SMPTE intellectual property. Accessible by search or browse. Members enjoy many benefits including unlimited access to the complete journal set back to 1916!

Celebrating 100 Years in 2016 Join SMPTE in celebrating its rich tradition and heritage while we look to the future! Plans are being developed for a festive year of activities Contact SMPTE with your ideas and support at smpte100@smpte.org

The SMPTE Staff Executive Director Barbara Lange Exec. Admin. June Sobrito Engineering and Standards Peter Symes (Based in CA) Operations Sally Ann D Amato Prof. Dev. Joel Welch (Based in PA) Membership Roberta Gorman Finance Ken Wendel Mgr Stds/IT Mauricio Roldan Stds Publisher Betty Migliore Mgng Editor Dianne Purrier

Thank you! For more information contact psymes@smpte.org blange@smpte.org