At NAB Show 2023 in Las Vegas, SMPTE Hollywood will host two Floor Sessions in the Connect Experiential Zone.
Remote Collaborations – Color Grading in the Cloud will feature AWS’s Marlon Campos, Colorist Society (CSI) Fellow Lou Levinson and Filmlight’s Peter Postma in conversation about the advent of remote work in post-production color. They will discuss the cutting edge technology that is enabling colorists to work remotely and to overcome the challenges of image quality, security, latency and other technical issues. They will also contrast the benefits of pure-cloud, hybrid and brick-and-mortar workflows.
The session is set for Sunday, April 16 at 1:00 pm in the Connect Inspiration Theatre, West Hall (W3421A). Journalist Debra Kaufman will moderate. The session is produced for SMPTE Hollywood, in association with SMPTE, by Linda Rosner.
Production & Post in the Multi-Cloud Universe will bring together Microsoft’s Andy Beach, Google Cloud’s Buzz Hays, AWS’s Katrina King and MTI Film’s Victor Vaile for an exploration of the myriad cloud workflow solutions that have arisen in recent years via hyper-scalers, SaaS offerings and private clouds. They will offer insight into the impact of AI-driven technologies, global connectivity, cloud processing and content delivery networks, and describe how post-production providers can benefit from the unlimited applications, computing power and storage resources available through the cloud.
The session is set for Monday, April 17 at 10:30 am in the Connect Inspiration Theatre, West Hall (W3421A). Journalist Debra Kaufman will moderate. The session is produced for SMPTE Hollywood, in association with SMPTE, by Steven B. Cohen, Laura Thommen and Linda Rosner.
Speakers
Remote Collaborations – Color Grading in the Cloud
- Marlon Campos, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, has dedicated more than two decades of his professional life to the IT and M&E industry. With a profound passion for content creation, he has been instrumental in driving innovation and technical excellence in his role as the technical lead for Color in the Cloud at AWS.
- Lou Levenson, Fellow, Colorist Society (CSI), has been one of the industry’s top colorists for more than three decades. He helped to craft the look for such classic films as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Batman and Batman Returns. Currently with Apple, he has held senior positions with MCA, Technicolor, PostLogic Studios and Modern VideoFilm, among others. Originally from Northbrook, Illinois, Lou earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in design from the University of Illinois, Chicago and a Master of Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He began his career with Columbia Pictures.
- Peter Postma, Managing Director of the Americas, FilmLight, developer of Baselight color grading and Truelight color management systems used in motion picture productions of all sizes. Previously, Peter worked as a systems engineer at Eastman Kodak helping pioneer digital intermediate technology. He has taught seminars on color management for production and post-production around the world and holds a BFA in Film and Animation from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Production & Post in the Multi-Cloud Universe
- Andy Beach, CTO, Media & Entertainment, Microsoft, is responsible for the technical strategy for our three clouds -Azure, Dynamics, and Office 365 – as they relate to the M+E industry. He collaborates closely with product groups and account teams to help customers and partners in developing their media related technology solutions and reference architectures that address their rapidly changing needs. He has extensive experience in combining technology, creativity, and business strategy in the media industry. Andy has published books on video compression and streaming media and is a recognized expert on topics spanning media creation and distribution pipelines.
- Buzz Hays, Global Lead Entertainment Industry Solutions for Content Creation, Google Cloud, is one of the world’s leading experts on advanced imaging production and technology in the media and entertainment industry. Buzz is responsible for Google Cloud's Content Creation Solutions development in the Media and Entertainment Vertical. He works closely with the top M&E customers of Google Cloud to tailor and build solutions to transform traditional methodologies into cloud native workflows from production to post-production to archive migration. Buzz has been involved in technology for media and entertainment for over 30 years with Google, Lytro, Sony, and Lucasfilm THX. He has produced numerous film and television projects for Disney, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. He is a member of SMPTE, he is the founding Chairman of the Advanced Imaging Society, he is a board member at the ETC at USC, and he is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences where he serves on the Science and Technology Council.
- Katrina King, Global Strategy Leader for Content Production, AWS, is a motion picture technologist and production technology executive with over 20 years of experience supervising production and technology for motion pictures, television and live events. She has authored more than ten patents in film and tv production, interactive streaming and cloud based post-production. Katrina led the AWS Color in the Cloud project which recently won the 2022 HPA Engineering Excellence Award. She is currently Global Strategy Leader for Content Production at AWS.
- Victor Vaile, Director of Engineering, MTI Film, has a wide and varied background in IT and Video infrastructure. When Victor joined the MTI team, he provided the company with a level of expertise required for the demanding challenges of today’s post production process. Everything from the smallest to the largest issues are overseen by Victor and his group of engineers, making MTI a safe, secure, and robust environment.
About the SMPTE® Hollywood Section
The Hollywood Section of SMPTE® was initially organized as the West Coast Section in 1928. Today, as its own SMPTE Region, it encompasses more than 1,200 SMPTE Members with a common interest in motion-imaging technology in the Greater Los Angeles area. The Hollywood Section offers free meetings monthly that are open to SMPTE Members and non-members alike. Information about meetings is posted on the Section website at https://www.smpte.org/sections/hollywood.
About SMPTE®
SMPTE is the global society of media professionals, technologists, and engineers working in the digital entertainment industry. The Society fosters a diverse and engaged membership from both the technology and creative communities, delivering vast educational offerings, technical conferences and exhibitions, the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, and access to a rich network of colleagues essential to their career success. As an internationally recognized standards organization, SMPTE also provides a vital technical framework of engineering standards and guidelines that allow the seamless creation, management, and delivery of media for art, entertainment, and education worldwide.
Information on joining SMPTE is available at smpte.org/join.
