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M&E Journal: Advancing Communication-Enabling Technologies

Among its many impacts, the pandemic disrupted communication for all of us. To compensate, we adopted new daily routines, and the new modus operandi for service, educational and me... More

M&E Journal: From Experiments to Dependability

In order to understand how production in the cloud works, it’s important to take in the big picture. The term “cloud” came from the quite correct assumption that, as a us... More

M&E Journal: Is Automatic Captioning Good Enough to Replace Traditional Captioning Services?

I’ve been watching “Humans” on Netflix. A couple of years late, admittedly, but if lockdown has been good for anything it’s catching up on TV shows you didn’t notice the ... More

M&E Journal: Protecting Digital Revenue With Distributor Watermarking

Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of life for the foreseeable future. As the world works toward getting back to “normal,” how we socializ... More

M&E Journal: Content Security in the World of Independent Film

Cybersecurity is a primary concern of organizational leaders across industries. As more and more business transactions, transfers of information, and handling of creative asset... More

M&E Journal: The Future of Storytelling: Improvement and Innovation

Animation, live action, scripted TV, reality programs, music, and other content creation efforts all center on traditional development, pre-production, production, post-production ... More

M&E Journal: Balancing Between Fan Engagement and Piracy on Social Media

Up until now, marketing and anti-piracy groups did not need to work together lock-and-step, since company policies set the direction of how to handle user-generated content (UGC), ... More

M&E Journal: From Limitation to Innovation

While the COVID-19 pandemic has rocked the media and entertainment industry in ways that will likely take years to fully grasp and process, one of the most immediate effects of thi... More

M&E Journal: Virtual Creative Economies: Blockchain NFTs and the Future of Digital Media

Over the past few months, blockchain non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have rapidly moved from its incubation period within the community of crypto artists and developers into one of the ... More

M&E Journal: Securely Preserving Digital Content in a Hybrid Storage Architecture

Media workflows have gone through tremendous transformation with traditional infra-structure and processes giving way to hybrid operations blending on-premise compute and storage h... More

M&E Journal: Applying Artificial Intelligence to IP Management: Implications for the Broadcast, Media Industries

Artificial intelligence (AI) is branch of computer science focused on building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. AI is an in... More

M&E Journal: Hollywood’s New Remote – and Virtual – Production Reality

For director and actor Ramon Fernandez (Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig, “Sons of Anarchy”) the past year was challenging on all fronts, both around the producti... More

M&E Journal: Marrying Our Creative and Business Practices

Along with many of you, I’m sure, my wife and I have been introducing our kids to the movies we watched growing up. Raiders of the Lost Ark, that 1981 phenom, was on the other ni... More

M&E Journal: Hollywood’s New Remote – and Virtual – Production Reality

For director and actor Ramon Fernandez (Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig, “Sons of Anarchy”) the past year was challenging on all fronts, both around the producti... More

M&E Journal: Charting Post-Pandemic Hollywood Through Its Own Lens

In 2011, Contagion terrified us about the spread of a virus transmitted by respiratory droplets. The Day After Tomorrow depicted catastrophic climatic that ushered in global coolin... More

M&E Journal: Change for the Better

Like many in the M&E supply chain, Convergent witnessed an immediate drop off in business in March 2020 as businesses stopped to assess the COVID-19 situation. Fortunately, ... More

M&E Journal: How Lockdown Accelerated Dubbing Changes

When the pandemic and its implications settled in, localisation service providers quickly got on the same page. Content owners needed a solution that could offer flexibility, choic... More

M&E Journal: New Ways to Connect People and Data

It’s the little things that you miss the most. The hallway hello that conveys so much more. The give and take at the coffee station updating a years-long argument. The way you ca... More

M&E Journal: The Show Must Go On: Empower Remote Creative Teams With Collaborative Cloud-Based Workflows

2020 was a year like no other. Media and entertainment organizations face urgent challenges to keep creative workflows moving forward and generate new business as they work to keep... More