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Turner Studios
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MCSi
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Thomson Multimedia
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Miranda
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Cox Broadcasting
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AVID Broadcast
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Georgia Technology Authority
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Tektronix
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Meeting:
Monday, July 14, 2025
Spiced Right BBQ at 6:30 PM
Program Starts at 7:30 PM
Program
by:
Avid
Hosted by:
WXIA-TV
Topic:
Considerations in Designing a
Nonlinear News Workflow
James Frantzreb, Avid Technology, Inc.
Nonlinear news production is rapidly becoming accepted as the new industry standard for stations seeking to upgrade or rebuild news production facilities. Many major broadcasters around the world (and many smaller ones) have made this transition. This presentation will discuss the essential components and considerations in designing a reliable, cost effective, nonlinear shared media network for news that can improve production workflow, augment creative output; and generate increased revenue while protecting broadcasters' capital investments. Specific reference will be made to the design and workflow criteria on which Avid has based its news workflow solutions, and what has been learned from experience in implementing well over 100 nonlinear news installations. Last, useful guidelines for planning and implementation, including vendor interoperation, will be provided.
Location:
WXIA-TV
1611 W. Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
PLEASE
POST
Invite
your Friends And Colleagues
June 2003 Section Meeting:
On June 9th, 40 members of the Atlanta SMPTE section met at the MCSi facility in Norcross to listen to a presentation on the MXF standard by Lowell Moulton of Sony Integration. Lowell has been active in efforts to define and standardize the Material eXchange Format, a technology to allow networked distribution of AV materials. The specification is being developed by a consortium of users, manufacturers and other industry groups. Lowell provided a fairly detailed primer on the structure and uses of MXF.
MXF is format independent as any format of material can be mapped into the MXF wrapper. MXF allows for mid-transfer monitoring of header data and for synchronization of audio, video and data information. The promise of MXF is to provide a common mechanism for transporting material between ingest, storage, playout, logging and other devices within a networked operation, greatly enhancing workflow and the utility of
materials.
Upcoming Section Meetings:
Leitch will provide the program for August. Sigma Systems is tentatively scheduled for September.
Suggestions and volunteers for upcoming meeting locations and programs are welcome. Please contact Ron Caird or Dave Siegler.
Job Opportunities:
Two job
opportunities have been submitted by Mark Apton, Corporate Recruiter. For more information check the Atlanta SMPTE web site or please contact Mark at Phone: 408 241-1603, Cell: 408 910-6632, Fax: 425 944-8699,
[email protected]
The client firm is an exciting software development and services company focused on digital broadcast, post production, management and workflow technology for the media industry.
1. Enterprise Architect - located in Atlanta. Responsible for managing the full lifecycle of requirements, design, implementation, testing and deployment of large-scale systems for their customers. Our products are targeted at the Broadcast industry, and are based on standard Enterprise Architectures. The Enterprise Architect must be experienced in all aspects of the software development cycle including experience in DVB (digital video broadcast) over IP is a must.
2. System Engineer - located mostly in Atlanta or New York and partly in Bristol (on-site with client). Requires broadcast hardware experience and Unix (Solaris) and NT
O.S. Admin., SDI, NTSE/PAL, storage, network admin. and man-machine interface. This is part IT and part broadcast work.
News of Related Organizations:
The
Peach State Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers is reorganizing
and plans to become more active. They now have a web site at www.broadcast.net/~sbe5/
where you can find more information.
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The
Order of the Iron Test Pattern has
reorganized, with new levels of membership available such that those
with as little as 15-minutes experience now qualify. The Order's
Creed: "Through snow and glitches,
dropouts, ghosts and now cliff-effect, we survive —
undaunted." Those interested in the order can learn more at
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