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Tutorial highlight: SMPTE Fellow Chris Lennon from Ross Video outlines the need for a free, open, and vendor-agnostic standard to replace fragmented, proprietary protocols.

Tutorial highlight: SMPTE Fellow Chris Lennon from Ross Video outlines the need for a free, open, and vendor-agnostic standard to replace fragmented, proprietary protocols.
IBC365 Tutorial: Chris Lennon and John Naylor from Ross Video introduce Catena (SMPTE ST 2138), an open-source, open-standard control plane designed to manage devices and services across cloud and on-prem environments.
IBC365 Tutorial highlight: How has cinema technology evolved over the past decade? Cedric Lejeune, VP of Technology at Unified Pixels, explores different light sources like laser and xenon, the rise of multiple dynamic ranges (SDR, EDR, HDR), and how screen types – solid or perforated – impact both image and sound quality in theatres.
IBC365 Tutorial highlight: Michael Cioni, Founder at Strada, contrasts the cloud’s strengths for streaming and small files with its biggest weakness: it simply isn’t built for huge, work-in-progress media files like OCFs and VFX frames.
IBC365 Tutorial highlight: Time-addressable Media Stores (TAMS) help create interoperable, cloud-native media workflows across live, fast-turnaround and file-based production, all while helping teams manage content ownership, access and storage with confidence.
IBC365 Tutorial: Cedric Lejeune, VP of Technology at Unified Pixels, unpacks the evolution of cinema display technology and the new challenges of grading for modern theatres.
IBC365 Tutorial: Michael Cioni, Founder at Strada, uncovers the “dark side” of cloud storage: escalating costs, exploding file sizes, and limited bandwidth.
IBC365 Tutorial: Sam Mesterton-Gibbons, Principal R&D Engineer at BBC Research & Development, introduces Time-addressable Media Stores (TAMS), an open, interoperable framework for cloud-native media.
IBC365 Tutorial highlight: How do you art-direct genAI technology? Diederik Veelo explains how AI workflows can put the artist in the driver’s seat, to deliver the vision and experience of the artist.
IBC365 Tutorial highlight: Discover how the preparation phase of implementing AI tools requires dedicated attention, cross-functional stakeholder alignment, and intentional cultural groundwork and understand how to create the conditions for success.