Past Events in 2011
Conference 'Hands on HD' 2011
August 4-5th, 2011
Expo Plaza, Hannover, Germany
Numerous experts will be attending the 9th edition of the "Hands on HD" event in Hanover on 4th and 5th August 2011. For the first time the conference will be organized in cooperation with the FKTG (Fernseh- und Kinotechnische Gesellschaft e. V. / German Society for Television and Motion Picture Technology). While the first day of the conference will focus on design related topics, the main emphasis of the second day will be put on technical aspects. Field reports regarding productions with camera models from ARRI, Sony, JVC and Panasonic will be presented and topics like "Image Quality on Television" (Prof. Dietrich Sauter), 4k Workflows and Codecs for High-End HD Production will be covered.
Jörg Houpert, Technical Director of Cube-Tec International will give a talk on:
"Quality Aspects regarding the Archiving of HD-Productions and Digital Film"
'Hands on HD' Tagung 2011
4. & 5. August 2011
Expo Plaza, Hannover, Deutschland
Am 04. und 05. August kommen zahlreiche Experten zur neunten Auflage
des Branchenevents "Hands on HD" nach Hannover.
Die Tagung wird in diesem Jahr erstmalig in Kooperation mit FKTG
Fernseh- und Kinotechnische Gesellschaft e. V. veranstaltet.
Am ersten Tag stehen gestalterische Fragestellungen im Vordergrund
während am zweiten Tag wurde der Fokus auf technische Apekte gelegt wurde.
Es werden Erfahrungsberichte von Produktionen mit Kameramodellen von ARRI,
Sony, JVC sowie Panasonic präsentiert.
Themen wie: "Bildqualität im Fernsehen" (Prof. Dietrich Sauter)
und 4k Workflows, oder Codecs für die High-End HD Produktion werden präsentiert.
Jörg Houpert,Cube-Tec International hält einen Vortrag zu Thema:
"Qualitätsaspekte für die Archivierung von HD-Produktionen und digitalem Film"
SMPTE 2011 Conference & Exhibition
19 - 22 July
Sydney Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour
Discover the Next Dimension
Welcome to the premier event for the motion imaging and television engineering industries in the South East Asia region … SMPTE11.
SMPTE's biennial Conference and Exhibition is the pre-eminent event for suppliers, technologists and content creators in the motion-imaging, sound and broadcast industries in the Australasian region. Maintain your competitive edge through exposure to the latest technologies, workflows and creative tools; and through ideas, key trends and case studies in the Conference programme.
19 - 22 July
Sydney Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour
Meet our partner Syncrotech Systems.
ILKAR international seminar - Preserving Endangered Audio Media
June 9-10th, 2011
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
On Friday, June 10th Hinnerk Gehrckens (German National Library) and Tom Lorenz (Cube-Tec International) have given a joint presentation on quality management for digitization projects.
Quality management for digitization projects
Despite all efforts to preserve historical media, digitalization is the only way for long-term storage of the audio and audiovisual media content.
Due to the continuous decay of these media, digitization projects should be made with the claim of the maximum quality. On the other hand, digitizing with the highest quality possible have also to be financially feasible.
Automated quality management plays a key role for high quality and economic aspects as well. Over-reliance in the quality of a digitization project can be extremely costly and also can lead to the total loss of the historic media content. The traditional methods of manual quality control are extremely time-consuming and therefore expensive. In many ways these methods are also technologically limited and do not provide a complete monitoring of quality.
Conventional quality analysis of digital audio and video signals is very limited, too. For a reliable decision on signal quality, these algorithms lack the most important information: is a detected quality flaw actually the result of a digitization error, e.g. a faulty player, or is it already present on the original media?
For uncompromising quality control and good economy there are two complementary automated procedures which will be presented in detail:
- automated control of the whole digitalization signal-chain using a reference medium
- seamless automated comparison of two digitizations from the same media
The methods were developed by the CONTENTUS research project. As a parallel progress they were also developed and released as commercial products by the company Cube-Tec International.
June 9-10th,2011
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany
ILKAR international seminar - Erhaltung von bedrohten audio- und audiovisuellen Inhalten
9. & 10. Juni 2011
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
Am Freitag, den 10. Juni 2011, hielten Hinnerk Gehrckens (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) und Tom Lorenz (Cube-Tec International) einen gemeinsamen Vortrag über das Qualitätsmanagement für Digitalisierungsprojekte.
Qualitätsmanagement für Digitalisierungsprojekte
Trotz aller Bemühungen, historische Medien zu erhalten und zu bewahren, können die audio- und audiovisuellen Inhalte dieser Medien langfristig nur durch Digitalisierung dauerhaft gesichert und nutzbar gemacht werden.
Aufgrund des ständig fortschreitenden Verfalls dieser Medien sollten Digitalisierungsprojekte zunächst mit dem Anspruch der maximal erreichbaren Qualität erfolgen, andererseits muss dieser Anspruch auch finanziell darstellbar sein.
Um sowohl einem hohen Qualitätsanspruch als auch wirtschaftlichen Aspekten gerecht zu werden, spielen automatisierte Verfahren zum Qualitätsmanagement eine Schlüsselrolle. Verzicht auf Qualitätssicherung und damit blindes Vertrauen in die Qualität einer Digitalisierungsmaßnahme kann zu äußerst kostspieligen Überraschungen sowie letztendlich zu einem Totalverlust historischer Medieninhalte führen. Die klassischen Methoden der manuellen Qualitätskontrolle sind zum einen personal- und kostenintensiv, zum anderen sind diese Methoden in vielerlei Hinsicht technisch unzulänglich und ermöglichen keine lückenlose Qualitätsüberwachung.
Auch IT-gestützte Verfahren zur Qualitätsanalyse in digitalen Audio- und Videosignalen kommen hier schnell an ihre Grenzen. Zur einer verlässlichen Beurteilung eines Digitalisates fehlt diesen Verfahren die Information, ob ein detektiertes vermeintliches Qualitätsmanko tatsächlich von einem Digitalisierungsfehler z.B. einem fehlerhaften Wiedergabegerät herrührt oder so bereits auf dem Original vorliegt.
Für eine kompromisslose Qualitätskontrolle bei gleichzeitig guter Wirtschaftlichkeit werden zwei sich ergänzende automatisierte Verfahren näher vorgestellt:
- automatisierte Qualitätskontrolle der Digitalisierungsstrecke mittels Referenzmedium
- automatisierter lückenloser Vergleich eines A-Digitalisates mit einem B-Digitalisat
Die hier vorgestellten Verfahren wurden im Rahmen des CONTENTUS Forschungsprojektes entwickelt sowie parallel dazu von der Firma Cube-Tec International in Form kommerzieller Produkte realisiert.
9. & 10. Juni 2011
Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Deutschland
ARRI Archive Workshop
31 May - 1 June
On Tuesday, May 31st Joerg Houpert will give an
oral presentation about
Streamlining Quality Control for Film and Film Sound Archiving.
The presentation is about quality control in large-scale film digitization and preservation projects. Archival applications like generating master archive packages and the automatic sound enhancement of proxy copies will be described. Necessary steps to supervise the audiovisual data for defects that may have been introduced during the transfer process and the possibility of automated rule-based decisions will be shown.
Technologies at the Workshop
Take a hands-on at the latest technologies at the Cube-Tec booth.
Join the ARRI Archive Workshop in Munich and attend case studies and technology seminars.
31 May - 1 June
ARRI Headquarters Munich, Germany
130th AES Convention
Conferences: 13 - 16 May / Exhibits: 14 - 16 May
AES Conventions are held annually in both the United States and Europe and are the largest gatherings of audio professionals in the world.
Workshops, tutorials, technical papers and the trade show floor provide attendees with a wealth of learning, networking and business opportunities.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Conferences: 13 - 16 May / Exhibits: 14 - 16 May
Novotel London West, London, UK
45th Annual ARSC Conference
Los Angeles, May 11-14, 2011
Rob Poretti will be presenting “Audio Analysis and Processing in Multimedia Formats”.
This paper will explore solutions for processing audio strams within multi-media formats. Using Cube-Tec's softare tools, it will explore approaches to analyze, process and extract audio streams and associated metadata from audio-visual files.
Workflow examples include demuxing audio and video elementary streams, trancoding audio and video streams within stream or wrapped formats, managing audio loudness processing and metadata, conditional audio processing based on file analysis, updating metadata for derivative generation, and more.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Conferences 11 - 14 May
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, Los Angeles, USA
NAB Show 2011
Conferences: 9 - 14 April / Exhibits: 11 – 14 April
Cube-Tec International exhibits at NAB 2011 as a partner of EBU and AMWA
Dear friends and partners,
Together with leading media technology companies like Sony, IBM and Avid, Cube-Tec International develops an open media framework for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) which fulfills the new level of requirements in the TV and media industry.
In partnership with the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) and the AMWA
(Advanced Media Workflow Association) we will demonstrate the
orchestration of interoperable media services within the service
orchestration engines from IBM and Sony.
As one of the first companies being able to present media services which
meet the latest FIMS specifications (Framework for Interoperable Media Services),
Cube-Tec International will demonstrate a fully automated service for loudness
corrections according to the newest loudness requirements like the CALM Act
(Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act) and the EBU R 128
(EBU Loudness Recommendation).
Cube-Tec International is known for its outstanding mastering, restoration and archive solutions in the audio domain since 15 years. New developments for process automation of large collections of moving images for media archiving, media quality control and Digital Cinema are moving quickly at Cube-Tec International. Furthermore, we have some exciting updates on our various project partnerships with Fraunhofer, Digital Vision and Doremi Technologies for you.
We will be presenting at booth N3134 - the joint booth of the AMWA and the EBU in the NAB International Research Park in the North Hall and would like to welcome you there to share new insights and ideas with you.
See you soon at the NAB!
Conferences: 9 - 14 April / Exhibits: 11 – 14 April
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, USA
Booth N3134
