Travails with My Camera: Investigations with Prototype Workflows and Specialist Cameras for Wider Target Platform Coverage, Reduced Complexity, and Universal Distribution

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 2022, No. 10, pp. 1–16
Abstract: In recent years, broadcast research has extensively studied creating robust workflows that can produce images for a small variety of target devices. Despite many different broadcasters undertaking such work, the resulting workflows are remarkably similar. Now we can begin to look at how these workflows can be extended to deliver to a wider number of platforms and devices, such as social media sites and mobile phones, and how novel techniques can be utilized to improve our product. — With plenty of time during various COVID-19 lockdowns and by gaining access to retired colleagues' cupboards of prototype cameras and radical ideas, the author decided to investigate the non-obvious things these cameras could do, how (or if) they can be integrated in to current workflows and, crucially, what's missing? — By using novel cameras, can we dramatically reduce our power usage at events? — By using novel cameras and new metadata in productions, can we create a single format that can work for TV and AR and can we easily create multiple output formats for a wider range of consumer electronic devices? Is there an easier way to integrate true next-generation audio within current UHD production workflows using signaling that already exists? — With a summer of testing - what can we learn?
Publication Date: 2022-10-24
DOI: 10.5594/M001988
ISBN: Print: 978-1-61482-963-8
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M001988
Author(s): Simon ThompsonSenior R&D Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation, UK
Keyword(s): European Championships, EBU, HFR, Metadata-Guided Audio, Light Field
Copyright: © 2022 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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