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March 2004 MEETING

Speaker:

• Scott Wood, Senior Product Manager, Digidesign

• Date & time: Wednesday, 24 March 2004
6:00-6:55 PM:No-host dinner in the Fuddruckers Restaurant "Mural Room" at the front entrance on Junipero Serra Blvd. in Digidesign/Avid's building, 1st floor, 2001 Pacific Plaza, Daly City; the SMPTE dining area is on the left of the "Mural Room"
7:00-7:30 PM: Soft drinks and discussion in the Digidesign/Avid 2nd floor lobby; soft drinks will be served. You can also get coffee or juice from Starbucks and Jamba Juice downstairs on the 1st floor before coming up the elevators. We will provide the required visitor escorts to 2nd and 4th floors. PLEASE NOTE: After 7:00 PM, you have to enter the Digidesign building from the main entrance on the Junipero Serra (west) side. Sign in with security and wait at the elevators in the lobby for an escort to the 3rd floor. Please arrive before 7:30; security will not allow unguided access and the guides will be seated at 7:30.
7:30-9:00 PM: Program
 
• Meeting organizer: Michael Poimboeuf, SMPTEsf manager

Program: The industry is moving more and more toward digital media standards. Two leaders in this move are AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) and MXF (materials exchange format at www.pro-mpeg.org ). What are these formats and how will they affect the way we will work with media this year? This presentation will review these standards as well as provide some demonstrations of newly available functionality that takes advantages of these new open standards.
 

For many years Scott Wood was known as the "Pro Tools film guy" in LA and has been involved in driving audio and interop standards from the digital audio users perspective. Five years ago Scott designed the largest independent digital film group in Hollywood, New Standard Post with over sixty workstation delivering film and television content completely on a central network. In the following year, he implemented a similar completely digital workflow at Todd Burbank for Ascent Media Group. In 2001 he returned to Digidesign as a Senior Product Manager in charge of media production and networking markets.

The SMPTE San Francisco Section would like to thank our host, Digidesign, a division of AVID Technology.

Welcome:

Location:

Note: From the south on 280 the Junipero Serra Exit is called DALY CITY/WESTLAKE DIST, from the north take the JOHN DALY BLVD exit to get to Junipero Serra.
Parking: The Pacific Plaza parking garage is a public garage,  the 1st, 2nd and 7th (top) floors are most secure. Do not park in restricted areas on the 6th floor.

                Digidesign is next door to Century Theaters, Daly City BART as well as Starbucks and Jamba juice.