HDR: Part 6 - PQ And HLQ Cinematography October 18^th 2022 - 09:53 AM

Like a lot of new ideas in film and TV, high dynamic range pictures are easy to like. The fear is that they’re far harder to create. In reality, HDR isn’t necessarily a huge burden, certainly not in the way that stereo 3D can be. It’s often been …

Creating The Look & Feel For Netflix Series ‘Mo’ With Cinematographer Timothy M Burton October 11^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Timothy Burton shares his insight into how the Netflix series ‘Mo’ tackles a potentially difficult subject with humour and style, with a look and feel that captures the heat of its location and pace of its narrative.

HDR: Part 5 - Jargon Buster October 4^th 2022 - 09:27 AM

The techniques of 35mm film are seductively simple. The process is the same no matter what the camera in use, or how the film will be cut. Conversely, every digital camera might have its own ways of approaching different parts of the process, creating a forest of terminology – gamma, gamut, s…

Location Shooting: What Kind Of Place Is It? September 19^th 2022 - 09:30 AM

Capturing the essence of a location in a single shot or series of shots can present a range of challenges for the itinerant DOP.

Creating Virtual Production Environments With Production Supervisor Don Bitters September 8^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Much of the attention enjoyed by virtual production currently goes to the spectacular stages with LED displays the size of half a dozen cinema screens. The material we put on those displays, though, can come from a number of places, and anyone putting together a virtual shoot will quickly encounter…

Image Capture & Processing At IBC 22 - Pristine Quality, IP & Cloud Native, Multi-Format Workflows September 6^th 2022 - 09:30 AM

While cloud services and remote production have dominated many conversations at recent trade shows, cameras and image processing remain a key part of any workflow. At the upcoming IBC Show, many companies will show new technology for capturing an image at its highest resolution and then converting it into a…

Camera Lenses Part 4: Aperture Effect and Digital Filters July 13^th 2022 - 09:40 AM

In this tutorial on the science of lenses (Part 4), John Watkinson examines lens resolution and discusses how to determine the lens performance needed so as to get the maximum performance from your camera sensor.

Using Cinema Cameras For Live Sports Broadcast July 7^th 2022 - 09:30 AM

We discuss the business case and technology challenges of using cinema cameras in live sports broadcast with Mark Chiolis of Mobile TV Group.

Too Few Crew To Meet The Post Pandemic UK Production Surge July 4^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

There has been an almost inevitable surge in TV production in the UK as the pandemic recedes. The way the sector has rapidly hit production capacity highlights some long-term issues with how the industry attracts and trains new talent.

HDR: Part 4 - Surviving Modern Colorimetry June 29^th 2022 - 09:55 AM

Most people are aware that any color can be mixed from red, green and blue light, and we make color pictures out of red, green and blue images. The relationship between modern color imaging and the human visual system was recently discussed by John Watkinson in his series on color.…

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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