From real-time virtual production and mixed-reality broadcasts to delivering cinematic-quality visuals and faster than real-time 8K transcoding, NVIDIA GPUs are powering demos for more than 85 partners at the world’s biggest broadcast trade show.
Image courtesy of Fox Sports.
At next week’s NAB Conference and Expo, the world’s largest broadcast trade show running April 6-11 in Las Vegas, NV, computer graphics technology developer NVIDIA will be showcasing how its RTX technology helps broadcasters and streaming services adapt to the mounting pressures of creating and delivering high-quality content faster than ever. This year at NAB 2019, NVIDIA GPUs are powering demos for more than 85 partners, with applications ranging from real-time virtual production and mixed-reality broadcasts to delivering cinematic-quality visuals, faster than real-time 8K transcoding, and AI insights for the home.
First adopted by The Weather Channel to convey the severity of life-threatening weather conditions, broadcasters are now using immersive mixed reality to put audiences in the heart of the story. With RTX ray tracing, cinematic-quality visuals are possible for ultra-realistic, live on-air graphics and virtual sets.
At NAB, see this technology powered by Epic Games Unreal Engine 4.22, Zero Density, Z by HP and NVIDIA Quadro RTX in the StudioXperience booth (SL3824) and in the Brainstorm booth (SL2812). Zero Density and NVIDIA have partnered with Fox Sports for daily presentations in the StudioXperience to showcase the very latest advances in photo-realistic real-time virtual sets and on-air graphics.
For end-to-end content creation and rendering, Dell Technologies is showcasing NVIDIA Quadro RTX and NVIDIA RTX Server in the South Hall (SL8011).
8K Transcoding
8K UHD is quickly becoming the standard for creating ultra-high-quality 4K UHD content. Watch NVIDIA RTX supercharge 8K video editing and color grading in real time at full resolution in RED Digital Cinema‘s meeting room (N201MR) and in the Colorfront suite at the Renaissance (Ren Deluxe I).
With NVIDIA RTX, broadcasters can revive archived content, easily up-resing SD or HD content to 4K or 8K using AI. See how in Blackmagic Design‘s DaVinci Resolve using Super Scale technology in the South Hall (SL216).
To support super-resolution workflows and faster content delivery, Quadro RTX’s high-performance transcoding uses dedicated NVENC/NVDEC hardware to enable faster-than-real-time encoding and decoding of 8K video.
Autodesk announced Flame 2020 with a new GPU-accelerated machine learning feature set along with a host of new capabilities that bring Flame artists significant creative flexibility and performance boosts.
Stop by the Mellanox booth (SL6025) to see how their intelligent interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering 4K and 8K content even faster to applications.
AI for the Home
Delivering content to the home is no longer just a brute force task -- it’s evolved to become highly intelligent. AI has enabled broadcasters and live streaming services to make individualized recommendations to match content to people based on past likes or dislikes, or using a similarity index.
Broadcasters can further improve consumer experiences with AI by allowing personalized content filtering or using new inputs such as mood or specific multi-dimensional parameters (for example, “show me a quirky movie with a female lead in Paris”).
With new AI solutions appearing every day, the possibilities are limitless. Broadcasters can now gain much deeper viewer insights using advanced data analytics with NVIDIA RAPIDS, and then visualize these insights in real time using an NVIDIA Data Science Workstation.
See how EVS (SL3816) is using NVIDIA GPUs as a hardware platform to execute the AI solutions they are developing for smarter and more efficient live production. From automatically steer robotic cameras using action prediction, to creating super-slow motion footage by generating missing frames, EVS is demonstrating the power and flexibility of AI at NAB.
Cloud Computing
Industry consolidation, geographically dispersed productions and increased security concerns are driving broadcasters to explore desktop virtualization. With NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Workstation (Quadro vWS) and NVIDIA T4 GPUs, broadcasters can scale compute resources and leverage RTX technology from the cloud, using powerful rendering and photorealistic design tools from anywhere.
Visit the Google booth (SU218) in the South Hall to see how broadcasters are using NVIDIA T4 GPU-accelerated cloud workstations for everything from content creation to remote video editing.
Teradici’s recent collaboration with NVIDIA enhances the PCoIP protocol to support GPU acceleration with Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation and NVIDIA RTX Server to ensure a high-powered physical workstation experience from anywhere. See how artists, editors and creative professionals are using this technology at Microsoft’s booth (SL6717).
Source: NVIDIA
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
