PDX Video Tech Members!
We have a great line-up of video tech talks coming up! Reward yourself with pizza and a beverage at this in-person event. Doors open at 6 PM! It will be a SMPTE 2110 kind of night!
Thanks a lot to our sponsors Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Global for supporting this event!
Speaker 1:
Harold Doland, Retired Software Engineer, formerly Sr Staff Software Development Engineer @ Harmonic
Live Sports Production using SMPTE ST 2110
This talk presents a high level view of live sports production based on the SMPTE ST 2110 suite of standards instead of using traditional SDI based systems. It is a hybrid system where the work is distributed over multiple locations on the ground and in the cloud. Activities include ad insertion and automated Closed Captioning. The video and audio streams are uncompressed until the final encoding step. The advantages of this system are presented including minimizing the cost of moving and setting up equipment at sports stadiums, sharing the cost of equipment over multiple events and using services available in the cloud.
Speaker 2:
Andy Beach, Founder & Principal @ Alchemy Creations
From ST 2110 to AI-Native Live Video: Rethinking Transport, Codecs, and Real-Time Intelligence
AI is moving into the live signal path. Not as post-production tooling, but as real-time infrastructure for tracking, replay generation, personalization, and automated production decisions. The problem is that most live video systems were never designed for machines that only need parts of a frame, at specific resolutions, and under tight latency constraints.
This talk builds directly on SMPTE ST 2110 workflows and explores what happens when you extend them for AI at scale. Using a working live demo, Andy will walk through how hierarchical codecs like VC-6 and multicast-based software networks can eliminate proxy pipelines, reduce bandwidth and compute load, and allow multiple AI models to operate in parallel from a single live source.
The session connects familiar IP production concepts with emerging AI-native architectures, showing how broadcasters and platform teams can introduce real-time AI without breaking existing workflows or rebuilding their infrastructure from scratch.
Check out Andy's latest blog post on the topic: https://v-nova.com/articles/building-ai-native-live-workflows-how-compute-aware-data-formats-and-smart-networks-are-changing-live-production/
