An encouraged Amberfin CTO Bruce Devlin took some time out
from the SMPTE exhibition—which opened 23 October and will be open through
Thursday—to talk about some of the progress he is seeing in adoption of
file-based workflows and the SMPTE standards that support them.
“SMPTE is so important in getting vendors’ [technologies] to
talk to each other in a cooperative environment for the benefit of media
companies,” Devlin said.
He was encouraged to hear SMPTE 436—which supports carriage
of VBI and VANC in MXF—discussed on Tuesday in a conference session. And he
noted that Wednesday’s presentation of SMPTE Timed Text Format (SMPTE-TT), a
caption interchange standard, is another important topic on the agenda.
AmberFin is on the exhibition floor showing its iCR, which has
implemented SMPTE 436 and SMPTE-TT.
Also exhibiting this week is Digital Rapids, which is on
hand with Kayak, its new workflow platform; and StreamZ Live Broadcast, a live
encoder developed to support both multi-screen streaming and broadcast
operations. “Excellent as always,” said Digital Rapid product manager Darren Gallipeau
of SMPTE’s exhibition. Like Devlin, Gallipeau said he looks forward to
exploring file-based workflows this week.
The list of 77 exhibitors also includes Cinegy, which is on
hand with the latest version of its Cinegy Multiviewer as well as the new
Cinegy Player, a standalone tool for viewing broadcast files. At SMPTE, the
company is distributed complimentary Cinegy Player licenses.
The exhibition will be open Wednesday from 10:30-18:30, and
Thursday from 10:30-14:00.
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