Section Officials
Chair
David Siegler
Turner Studios
404-885-0314
david.siegler@turner.com
Secretary/Treasurer
Zandra Clarke
Turner Networks
zandra.clarke@turner.com
Membership Chair
T.J. Scott
Thomson Multimedia
770-338-4273
tj.scott@thomson.net
Program Chair
Ron Caird
Miranda
770-578-0096
rcaird@miranda.com
Managers
Sterling Davis ’04
Cox Broadcasting
404-843-5230
sterling.davis@cox.com
Earl Higgins ‘04
AVID Broadcast
770-889-4591
earl_higgins@avid.com
Roger Hatcher ‘05
Georgia Technology Authority
404-656-2919
rdhatche@doas.state.ga.us
Ron Caird ‘05
Miranda
770-578-0096
rcaird@miranda.com
Jim Edwards ‘05
Tektronix
jim.w.edwards@exgate.tek.com
Webmaster
Andy Funk
FOX5 News, WAGA-TV
404-898-0116
andyfunk@foxtv.com
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Next Meeting:
Monday, November 8, 2004
Spiced Right BBQ at 6:30 PM
Program Starts at 7:30 PM
Hosted
By:
Siemens Business Systems Media
(Formerly BBC Technology)
10 Tenth St.
Suite 1050
Atlanta, GA
Topic:
AAF Update /
Case Study for Implementing the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF)
Ed McDermid
Head of North American Marketing
Siemens Business Systems Media
THE
challenge for manufacturers or M&E companies with in house software teams
implementing AAF can be
daunting. AAF is a rich and extensible format for wrapping metadata and
media essence for file based production, and AAF is capable of representing
highly complex descriptions of abstract or non-linear edits. Implementing
AAF typically requires mapping of one composition metadata architecture to
another fundamentally different composition architecture. This presentation
shows how to map between AAF and XTL, the composition format for Windows
Media 9 Series (WM9S). Siemens Business Services Media (formerly BBC
Technology) working closely with Microsoft's Window Media group, has
developed an AAF plug-in for WM9S that
allows contents of AAF files to be viewed using the Windows Media Player.
The plug-in also enables software developers to rapidly create more complex
applications leveraging Microsoft's Direct Show platform. This case study
for mapping AAF to XTL illustrates a relatively thorough example of what is
required to implement AAF, and how AAF can be used to create new and
innovative tools and products.
ED
McDermid, Head of North American Marketing for Siemens Business Systems
Media, will provide an update on AAF mapping of Microsoft XTL format for
integration with Windows Media. Directions:
FROM
I-75/85 NORTH or SOUTH
Exit at 10th/14th St.
Exit.
Turn East on 10th St.
10 Tenth St is on the northeast corner of 10th and West Peachtree
St.
Parking is in the garage at first right turn off West Peachtree St.
PLEASE
POST
Invite
your Friends And Colleagues
"IT Developments for Broadcasters" Seminar:
A
SEMINAR on "IT Developments for Broadcasters" will be held in Atlanta on
December 15th. This all-day seminar is presented as a collaborative
effort by Miranda, Omneon Video
Networks, Sundance Digital and Tandberg Television. Topics to be covered
include: IT Networking Basics, Network Security Issues and Strategies,
Storage Network Concepts, Emerging Compression Formats, File Exchange
Technologies, Monitoring Strategies Using IP, Collaboritive Production
Enhanced by IT Enabled Infrastructure.
The cost of the seminar is $75 dollars. For more information, visit
http://www.miranda.com/itdbe/index.html
Program
Suggestions:
Is
there a topic that you would like us to cover or want to present? Do you
have new equipment or a facility you would like to show off?
We
are always looking for hosts and presenters for our meetings.
Please
contact:
Section
Internet Mailing List
We have a full-featured Internet
mailing list for support of Section activities. List members receive
meeting notices and other appropriate announcements. The list is easily
administered via the web. You can subscribe, unsubscribe, and change your
list options —yourself— on the list
Info Page, or view past list messages kept the list
Archive.
And
now there's another list that may be of interest —
AtlTech — created for those in the Atlanta area interested in
broadcast, television and motion picture engineering. It is a "place"
online where SMPTE members interested in the SBE can learn of what they're
doing, and where SBE members can learn of SMPTE activities, etc.
You can subscribe, unsubscribe, and change your list options —yourself—
on the list
Info Page,
or view past list message kept in the list
Archive.
Comments?
Send
your announcements, job openings, or other information of general interest
to Program Chair Ron Caird:
Have
comments or suggestions for the Section web site? Send them to Andy
Funk, andyfunk@foxtv.com or
kb7uv@arfunk.com.
For
more information on the Society visit the SMPTE Home Page.
Related
sites can be found on our Internet Links page.
Many
of our past meeting announcements can be found in our
archives directory.
News of Related Organizations:
The
Peach State Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers web site at
www.broadcast.net/~sbe5/
has information on the activities of this related group.
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