TRANSISTOR 2010

http://transistor.ciant.cz/2010/

TRANSISTOR is a multidisciplinary training initiative (started in 2005) offering European professionals in the audiovisual sector some intensive workshop sessions focused on new technologies. The training sessions which combine personalized hands-on practicing with conceptual and technological introductions address producers, new media content providers, professionals from the post-production field and from the animation industry, and trainers.

The participants of our training courses are delivered information and skills related to advanced audiovisual techniques necessary for creation of complex multimedia products. They are offered knowledge for leading professional teams, choosing proper technologies and tools, and using the open-minded multidisciplinary approach in order to make production, post-production, distribution as well as preservation process most effective.

A multidisciplinary Project Transistor offers European professionals in the audiovisual sector four intensive workshops focused on new technologies in the following key areas:

1.    Preservation techniques and methodologies for digital audiovisual works with respect to latest achievements in the area of reference models and repository technologies.

2.    Integrated approach to 3D cinema and stereoscopy

3.    HDTV retrieval and real-time content distribution in network-driven industrial scenarios

4.    Distributed post-production techniques in the field of visual effects

MAIN GOALS

•     Transistor project offers outstanding training in preservation techniques and methodologies for digital audiovisual works with respect to latest achievements in the area of reference models and repository technologies

•     Transistor offers the best practices in digital production within a newly structured workshop in domain of 3D cinema and stereoscopy

•     Transistor provides original new workshop focused on HDTV retrieval and real-time content distribution aimed to better understand emerging network-driven industrial scenarios

•     It holds expanded training module in distributed post-production techniques exploring cutting-edge experiments with real-time work on visual and special effects from multiple remote locations

EVENTS

1. Preservation techniques and methodologies for digital audiovisual works

FAMU Prague, May 6 - 9, 2010

Digital outputs have been mass produced on daily basis. Sadly, most of them is instantly lost and forgotten. 

Preservation skills are nowadays more on demand than ever before. Check our four day training workshop focused on Preservation techniques and methodologies for digital audiovisual works issue!

No matter if you have just started the digitization of your audiovisual collection or you have almost finished it or your collection is already born-digital. Beware that your precious digital data, zeroes and ones, are even in a bigger danger than the original analogue material they have originated from. The preservation process is never finished; it just bears a new adjective: digital preservation.

Experts:

Daniel Teruggi (INA), Richard Wright (BBC), Woody Vasulka (vasulka.org) and many others (see the full list of speakers)

2.  3D stereoscopy

Four day training workshop focused on exploring new forms of digital cinema, introducing and mastering 3D stereoscopy technology. The session delivered integrated introduction into state-of-the-art 3D cinema technologies and provides strong hands-on project-oriented professional development experience.

Experts:

Jan Buriánek (AV Media), Daniel Nezmar (SPAFi), Tomáš Petrá

3. High definition TV
SPAFi, Prague, June 19 - 22, 2010 

Four day training workshop focused on understanding network-driven industrial scenarios and introducing cutting-edge retrieval methods, mastering streaming techniques and technologies.

Experts:

Daniel Goodfellow (Kit Digital), Michal Krsek (CESNET), Petr Vítek (ČT)

4. Visual Effects and distributed post-production

ČVUT, Telč, June 24 - 27, 2010

Four day training workshop explored the possible ways, how to collaboratively post-produce digital content. The attention was brought to distributed processes and working online from remote locations on shared audiovisual content because some of the input and output processing tools are often accessible only at one location.

Experts:

Viktor Antonov (Vulkanbros), Pierre Proske, Marlon Barrios Solano