The Hollywood Post Alliance®, the premier trade organization of the post production industry and sponsor of the annual HPA Tech Retreat® and HPA Awards®, will host the NAB Post Pit at NAB 2011 in Las Vegas. Featuring technology demonstrations from some of the industry’s most innovative companies, The Post Pit will serve as a crash course on the future of post production. The Post Pit will be held on Wednesday, April 13th, starting at 10:00 a.m. in the lower South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center (SL12705). New demonstrations will begin every 30 minutes and run continuously throughout the day.
The Post Pit will include demonstrations by recipients of the 5th Annual HPA Award for Engineering Excellence and the HPA Award for Creativity & Innovation in Post Production, as well as winners of the Best of the HPA Tech Retreat Demos as voted by attendees of the HPA Tech Retreat.
“The Post Pit represents an important opportunity for post production-focused NAB attendees to distill the complex nature of the show,” said Hollywood Post Alliance President Leon Silverman. “It will help people put what they see at NAB in context. They will come away with important and timely information on the latest workflows, tools and trends in post.”
Highlights of The Post Pit will include:
โข 1 Beyond, FotoKem and Light Iron Digital will make presentations on the latest developments in file-based, on-set workflow “lab” tools.
โข Gradient Effects will demonstrate its GLoW technology used to produce 3-dimensional digital fingerprints of sets.
โข Digital Vision will make a presentation on the Academy Color Encoding Specification (ACES) format and color timing in OpenEXR.
โข HPA Board Member and Technology Consultant Jerry Pierce will discuss the Interoperable Master Format (IMF), recently added to the SMPTE standardization process.
โข DVS Video Systems and SalesForce.com will present an example of automated IMF, cloud-based workflows used in conjunction with a DVS Clipster to create deliverables.
โข Cine-tal will speak to the challenges of creating proper metadata in production and post to ensure consistency in display.
โข Sony Electronics will highlight its 17-year effort to develop OLED technologies for field and studio environments.
โข Reliance MediaWorks will demonstrate image optimization software and discuss the impact of such power tools on digital post production workflows.
โข Nexidia will present its sound search and analysis software which can identify and view any word or phrase spoken in a video archiveโฆin seconds.
โข AVID and Sony will discuss new developments and workflow relative to HDCAM SR in postproduction and editing. Among other things, the session will cover Sony’s newly-developed SRMemory platform and Avid’s newly-implemented direct-to-edit, native support for the SR Codec in Media Composer v5.5.
“The Hollywood Post Alliance is proud to be partnering with the NAB Show,” Silverman said. “In addition to presenting award-winning content, The Post Pit will be a great spot for the post production community to meet and exchange up-to-the-minute ideas with their colleagues. See you in The Pit!”
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