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SMPTE Earns Two 2020 Emmy® Awards for Technology and Engineering
The SMPTE ST 2110 suite of standards is a major contributing factor in the movement toward one common internet protocol (IP)-based mechanism for the professional media industries. The standards suite, which is built on the VSF Technical Recommendation for Transport of Uncompressed Elementary Stream Media Over IP (TR-03), specifies the carriage, synchronization, and description of separate elementary essence streams over IP for real-time production, playout, and other professional media applications.
read moreAdopt the intoPIX JPEG XS Plugin for Adobe Premiere® And Ease Your Live Video Workflow
With access to the standardized JPEG XS format, video editors can rely on the codec’s proven quality and features: visually lossless compression, robust over multiple encoding/decoding cycles, low latency and low complexity. Hence, now it is easy to replace all those SDI-based workflows and start streaming over standard networks using SMPTE 2110.
read moreIn the Business of News
Pebble Beach Systems, which had already worked with Bloomberg UK to deliver a similar system, was mandated to build a modern 2110 NMOS-compliant set-up capable of providing the dynamic and complex switching required for a business news channel. Its real benefit is that it is future-proof and flexible, using the latest technology advances to build a complex pipeline (transmission chain) encapsulated in a redundant server pair with no compromise on reliability.
read moreNextera Video and Adeas Announce SDI Core, SMPTE ST 2022-8, and NMOS IS-09 as the Latest Additions to their Industry-Leading SMPTE ST 2110 Video over IP FPGA Core Set
December 11, 2020 –El Dorado Hills, CA – Nextera Video and Adeas are proud to announce that their industry-leading SMPTE ST 2110 Video over IP FPGA cores now support NMOS IS-09 System Parameters, as well as SMPTE ST 2022-8, SDI Core, and Frame Synchronizer companion...
Dome Productions Advances Along IP Trail With New Gateway Production Truck
Dome Productions is intensifying its commitment to IP-capable offerings with its new Gateway mobile unit. “Gateway’s equipment is working with an environment based on SMPTE 2110,” says Mike Johnson, director, engineering, Dome Productions. “The truck has built-in diversity redundancy, so every device has two paths to its destination.”
read moreM6 Embraces The Benefits Of Evertz IP Technology For Its New Playout Centre
Leading French broadcaster Metropole Television SA (commonly known as the M6 Group) has futureproofed its new Master Control Room near Paris by placing state of the art Evertz IP technology at the heart of its operation. The switch from SDI to IP (ST 2110) will allow M6 to easily incorporate new HD services, new delivery platforms and new video formats such as Ultra HD 4K and 8K.
read moreVideo – NMOS Interview NAB New York 2020
Jed Deame, CEO Nextera Video, is interviewed by Wes Simpson representing the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS). Jed talks about what NMOS is, how it works, and why it is so important in IP Video deployments. Visit our Video Resources page for more related videos...
MediaHub Australia Makes a Significant IP Upgrade With EVS, Magna Systems
"Our key requirements were to have flexible gateways or server devices to convert any incoming signal format from various service providers – who deliver as SDI/IP/ASI – to a standard IP format SMPTE-2022-6/7 or SMPTE 2110 for our MCR to process,” says MediaHub’s Executive Head of Technology, Simon Scott. “One of the key needs was operational control surfaces to provide the same touch and feel of a traditional SDI routing system, but with the signals being managed in IP workflows."
read moreAIMS Booth at SMPTE 2020: ‘Game On’ Will Offer Educational Videos and Resources on Media Over IP
“The industry’s embrace of IP has accelerated in past months, with new business pressures and technical challenges driving adoption and innovation,” said AIMS Chairman Mike Cronk. “Ongoing education is vital to the success of new and expanding media-over-IP implementations, and the SMPTE annual technical conference is an ideal forum in which to share expert perspectives, insights, and practical advice on leveraging standards and specifications to achieve interoperability in the IP environment.”
read moreAIMS Chairman Mike Cronk On ST-2110; IP Oktober Webinars Available On Demand
Cronk says that SMPTE ST-2110 continues to make gains, especially in areas like making configurations and connections simpler. And the AIMS membership continues to add members from the professional A/V community and that efforts related to IP in that community, notably IPMX and new ways to put the ST-2110-2 standard for compressed transport is the kind of work that could benefit the traditional broadcast market.
read moreSVG Tech Insight: Establishing A Safe, High-Quality Sports Production With Modern Technologies
Typically, SMPTE-2110 systems afford more flexibility, as its ethernet transmission base allows for embedding and disembedding of audio or video. NMOS (Networked Media Open Specification) control of all IP converters, for instance, can be centralized to a remote laptop station to ensure the safety of the operating staff and allow the operator to dynamically route video and audio essences with ease. New sources can be added dynamically as needed, and just as with fiber, an existing network can be easily updated by using an appropriate IP converter at each end of the video signal chain, to provide safer distancing with high quality and low latency video. IP offers advantages to both live production for OB trucks as well as to permanent studio installations, with the ability to scale to almost any format and frame rate further down the road. IP does require much more complex installation and management than fiber.
read moreGame Creek Video Deploys Five New SMPTE ST 2110-Based Mobile Units
The 53-foot-long expandable units are entirely IP-based facilities. Game Creek Video rolled out the first two production units, Bravo and Columbia, in late 2019. They were followed this year by Gridiron A and B and Celtic. Gotham is currently being completed.
Fox Sports will use Bravo and Gridiron for NFL and college football coverage, while CBS Sports has reserved Columbia and Celtic for its NFL and college basketball broadcasts. MSG Networks will use Gotham for its New York Rangers hockey and New York Knicks basketball coverage.
read moreSMPTE 2020: ‘Game On’ Introduces Series of Program Sessions Optimized for Attendees in the Asia-Pacific Region
SMPTE® today announced that SMPTE 2020: “Game On,” the Society’s interactive and immersive remote technical conference experience, will include a series of technical sessions, roundtable discussions, and networking events specially designed for attendees who live or work in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The APAC program will feature four hours of programming per day on 11 and 12 November, beginning with breakfast roundtables at 8 a.m. Hong Kong / 9 a.m. Tokyo/Seoul / 11 a.m. Sydney.
NMOS – The Interoperable Control System for an IP World
Speaker: Jed Deame, Nextera Video
read moreNextera to exhibit at SMPTE 2020 Virtual Show
Join us at SMPTE 2020! Nextera Video is proud to be participating in this year's SMPTE 2020 Virtual Event on November 10-12. We will be hosting a Virtual Booth with live chat and the ability to schedule meetings with us directly. In addition, Nextera CEO, Jed Deame,...
Mobile TV Group Reflects on Launch of 47 Flex Mobile Unit, Looks Ahead to New Cloud Control Platform
“This is our third all-IP mobile unit, but it’s the first [in which] the native device-to-device IP connection is made through NMOS-04 and -05,” says Phil Garvin. “That is huge because it reduces the installation and coordination time for an IP truck dramatically. That’s the big change here. It’s getting close to the point of plug-and-play, where you can connect two IP devices and they just talk to each other. There’s no question that native IP has been difficult, but it’s now getting easier with advancements we’ve made.”
read moreIP Showcase Channel at 2020 NAB Show New York Goes Live Today
The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) is live today at the 2020 NAB Show New York with its own IP Showcase channel. The IP Showcase channel gives attendees a unique opportunity to take in instructional and case-study presentations from industry-leading vendors and broadcasters. A series of 35-minute presentations and discussions will focus on the broadcast industry’s move to standards-based IP infrastructure for real-time professional media applications.
All content will be posted for on-demand viewing and available for 30 days. IP Media Network Management Using NMOS featuring Jed Deame,
Founder and CEO, Nextera Video
read moreGrass Valley Technology Behind the World’s Largest SMPTE 2110 IP Network at BBC Cymru Wales New Central Square HQ
The broadcaster’s new purpose-built national headquarters, which replaces the old Llandaff complex – home to the broadcaster for over 50 years – is the first BBC facility built completely around IP technology, and the world’s largest SMPTE 2110 IP routing system for broadcast. BBC Wales will benefit from future-ready production and broadcast capability that can easily evolve with its changing needs.
read morePreserving PTP in Remote Production Environments
IP is a key enabler of remote production applications, as it supports transport of both audio and video, as well as the data, communications and control signals critical in the production environment. Oftentimes, the challenge lies in connecting two remote sites, each with its own media-over-IP infrastructure but lacking the IP switching and Precision Time Protocol (PTP) implementation essential to preserving timing and synchronization across both sites.
PTP specifies a methodology for synchronizing devices to a single shared clock across packet-based networks (using SMPTE ST 2110 and AES67), including Ethernet switches and IP routers. Creating a common time base for multiple AV sources, PTP enables synchronization of device clocks to within nanoseconds, even across a large network.
read moreAIMS IP Oktoberfest: How to Plan and Deploy a SMPTE ST 2110 Network
To move forward with the design and deployment of a SMPTE ST 2110 network, Robert Welch, technical solutions lead at Arista, has a simple piece of advice: work backwards.
“Try to figure out what you are trying to do with it [the network], and then go in reverse,” said Welch during his “Proper Network Design and Considerations for SMPTE ST 2110” presentation, the final session at the virtual AIMS (Alliance for IP Media Solutions) IP Oktoberfest 2020.
read moreNEP Group Rolls Out IP-Based Supershooter 4, Supershooter 9 Production Units
NEP Group has introduced two new mobile production units with the latest IP innovations for the fall’s return of live sports and entertainment. NEP Supershooter 9 and NEP Supershooter 4 launched with advanced, fully IP-based technology and the latest creature comforts amid health and safety measures required to operate safely in today’s production environment. The mobile units are the fourth and fifth IP production units in NEP’s U.S. lineup, building upon the company’s rollouts of SMPTE ST 2110 EN3, M15 and Supershooter 8 since 2018.
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