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GUARDRAILS NEEDED FOR AI PROTECTION AND SMPTE HOLDS THE KEYS BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON
“Technology is accelerating beyond our ability to keep up with it,” warned SMPTE President Renard Jenkins. “As an industry we have proven our ability to innovate and thrive but to do it properly in the age of AI we have to have guardrails and that’s where policies and standards become extremely important. In a SMPTE-hosted session on just that topic, Hans Hoffman, Senior Manager at the EBU, said the broadcast body has been focusing on the evolution of AI technology and the impact on public service media. “We do not do standards. As far as production technology is concerned, we do our standardisation through SMPTE,” he said. In building standards, Hoffman stressed the importance of
leans on an interoperable talent identifi er for digital replicas being developed by HAND (Human & Digital) – which is part of the IBC 2024 Accelerator Programme. HAND CEO Will Kreth said: “We
(L-R): Will Kreth, HAND; Thomas Bause Mason, SMPTE; Hans Hoffman, EBU; Juan Reyes, Tech Align Group; Renard Jenkins, SMPTE
communicating with users about their requirements. “You must also test, pilot and feedback. An agile process must iterate the work and test the implementation. Standards should not be concrete. They should evolve and they should be fl exible, and as we move towards software and AI they need to be implemented faster.”
CLIPBOX COLLAB SERVES UP NEWSROOM EFFICIENCIES
Qvest BY DAVID FOX
The latest version of Qvest’s clipbox is the fi rst studio server to fully support a new renderless workfl ow powered by Web Render Engine (WRE) from Vidispine (stand 7.A15). For newsroom editors and operators, this promises improved collaboration and reduced production delays. WRE stores and manages content effi ciently without creating new fi les for every sequence.
Karsten Schragmann, Head of Product Management, Vidispine, said: “Only metadata is generated when users edit a sequence, eliminating the need for fi le movement or rendering. This enables multiple editors to work simultaneously on the same content from anywhere.”
Jenkins described SMPTE colleague Thomas Bause Mason as “the Jedi of standards” for his role as Director of the standards development process. Mason joked: “I usually get blamed if standards are too slow.” SMPTE is working with studios, content owners and vendors on AI guardrails. One part of its work
urgently need a practical solution for digital replicas. A standard can help secure and protect a digital double which is unique to artists. We are a piece of the puzzle in identifying the talent and the characters they play as an object in the supply chain and we’re seeing traction among studios and metadata companies.” Juan Reyes of the Tech Align
Group added: “AI is in every room and every panel here at IBC but there is no standard and no guideline. Studios are concerned about losing their IP to another studio or content creator studio because their IP has not been tracked or accounted for in AI systems.”
NEW GEAR FOR HDR, KVM AND AUDIO OVER IP
Apantac BY DAVID FOX
Renderless workfl ow:
Christian Münch, Key Account Manager, Qvest, demonstrating the upgraded clipbox
As clipbox supports WRE natively, no videos need rendering in advance. Even transitions can be executed in real time. The fast- turnaround workfl ow plays clips from shared memory, removing the need to copy them, and supports sequence playout while content is being recorded, which allows time delay playback. The updated clipbox also
improves customisation for ingest and studio playout workfl ows and provides full support for real-time rendering with transition effects, so users can play out sequences directly, without a vision mixer. 10.C24, 10.C31
Apantac has extended its range of connectivity products with AoIP, HDR and KVM units. The new DA-HDTV-Dante-Tx- UHD is a compact HDMI-to-Dante converter, which can take in Dolby Atmos, DTS, AAC and other digital audio formats. Thomas Tang, CEO, Apantac, said: “It takes the HDMI input and extracts the audio, then decodes it into 16 channels of Dante audio.” It supports PoE+ and can be rack mounted. There is also a version for de-embedding 12G SDI into Dante, available as an openGear card (OG-DA-SDI-DE-12G-Dante) or standalone unit, with an optional fi bre input.
Apantac is also showing new HDR up-, down- and cross-conversion (PQ and HLG) as an openGear card (OG-HDR-UDX). The Tahoma
Tang shows off Apantac’s new openGear and standalone Dante units
T# multiviewers now also support HDR (PQ and HLG). The modular multiviewers allow users to mix and match I/O ports (up to 12G, including IP, fi bre, 3G, SDI, CVBS, HDMI and DisplayPort), with up to 64 inputs and eight outputs supported in a 4RU frame. Also new is a range of KVM-
over-IP extender/receivers that now support up to 4K60p and are available as standalone units or a new openGear version. 10.F45
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