GUIDED TOUR: Inside the New, Connected Machine Room

Time: 1:30pm - 2:15pm
Location: Tour Begins at the The Coffee Bean

This new, chief engineer and stage technician-focused experience begins with a guided tour of Sony Pictures Studios’ key technical spaces—machine rooms, mix stages, four-way screen array monitor systems, networked IT backbone, etc.—offering a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the infrastructure that powers post-production sound.

Engineers Tour Leader: Lane Burch, Chief Engineer, Sony Pictures Post-Production Services

PANEL: Secure, Solid and Seamless: Building an IT-Meets-Audio System for True Remote Collaboration

Time: 2:15pm - 3:00pm

Location: Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage, Control Room

The Covid pandemic certainly kick-started the mainstream adoption of
remote collaboration technologies and workflows is sound for film and television. But
most of it involved a series of secure file exchange and downloads. Now the major
studios are all developing systems that go beyond simple file sharing and Aspera
approvals. In this special technology panel, chief engineers and IT specialists from the
leading film and television studios will share insights on evolving workflows, system
design, and the challenges involved in implementing a secure and seamless IT
backbone that enables true real-time, secure, seamless collaboration among
creatives—wherever they might be.

Moderator: Steve Harvey, Mix Senior Writer