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Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 6 - Analyzing Gamma Correction In The Frequency Domain November 19th 2020 - 09:00 AM

To date, the explanations of gamma that are seen mostly restrict themselves to the voltage or brightness domain and very little has been published about the effects of gamma in the frequency domain. This is a great pity, because analysis in the frequency domain produces interesting results.

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Digital Audio: Part 5 - The Mathematics Of Oversampling November 18th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Oversampling is a topic that is central to digital audio and has almost become universal, but what does it mean?

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Creative Analysis: Part 11 - Cinematographer Stephen Whitehead On An Elephant’s Journey November 17th 2020 - 09:00 AM

There’s a famous saying about working with children and animals. During production of An Elephant’s Journey, cinematographer Stephen Whitehead would encounter both, and face the challenge of depicting the vast African landscape in a manner befitting a story from the grand tradition of children’s adventure writing.

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HDR: Part 16 - Creative Technology - LED Vs HMI November 16th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Big movies still demand big setups, no matter what anyone tells you about the battery-powered light they’re trying to sell. Battery-powered lights are wonderful, of course, even if we only use the battery power for long enough to walk a light in and set it up, but popular ideas about just what they’re capable of can be, well, a little ambitious, and that’s occasionally getting people into trouble.

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Computer Security: Part 1 - What Is Computer Security? November 12th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Computer security is always a hot topic, but what do we mean by security and why do systems seem to be ever vulnerable. Comparing hardware to software helps understand vulnerabilities in software security.

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The Sponsors Perspective: Capturing Immersive Audio November 10th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Strategies for capturing immersive audio for scene and object-based audio.

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SMPTE has created a highly interactive, online meeting place for conference attendees that mimics a physical trade show.

Virtual SMPTE 2020 Targets Global Community With Interactive Platform November 6th 2020 - 09:30 AM

Like most industry gatherings this year, the 2020 SMPTE show is virtual and runs from November 10-12, complete with an interactive environment that incorporates a main conference hub, meeting rooms, theater space for sessions and the annual awards gala, and an exhibition hall with private meeting spaces. Many of the events, in addition to the Awards Gala, have been pre-recorded so attendees can view them at their leisure.

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Agile Monitoring Supports Growth Of OTT November 5th 2020 - 09:30 AM

To maintain high quality of experience for their customers, content providers need a way to monitor hundreds—sometimes thousands—of channels without compromising real-time error detection. In most cases, the immense scale of their service offerings makes continual visual monitoring of all streams physically impossible and error prone. To meet this need, the flexibility, scalability and agility of software-defined monitoring systems is applied to achieve unlimited multiviewer scaling and fully automated monitoring and alarming to meet this rapidly increasing need.

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