Demonstration: Networked Master Class
Nathan Brock (UC San Diego), session chair
Steve Morris (Skywalker Sound) and Richard Weinberg (USC), session moderators
Sunday, Nov. 20, 1:00pm, CalIT2 Auditorium
This demonstration is of streaming video, audio, control, and videoconferencing over a wide-area network for the purpose of cinema audio post-production. In particular, this scenario is of a professional mix engineer at Skywalker Sound giving a master class to a group of students at the University of Southern California and a the University of California San Diego. The Master Engineer can interact with students at both universities without ever leaving Skywalker Sound. The students have complete control over the remote session, and can also stream their own projects for the Master Engineer to review and comment on. Streaming media is handled using NTT’s Jpeg2000 codecs over CENIC managed research networks. Teleconferencing uses LifeSize units, while control information is streamed using Avocent KVM-over-IP devices.
The committee would like to thank Skywalker Sound for their generous donation of time, equipment, and facilities to this event, and to USC for use of their spaces and students.
Project Leader, San Diego: Nathan Brock
Project Leader, USC: Richard Weinberg
Project Leader, Skywalker Sound: Steve Morris
Master Engineers, Skywalker Sound: Tom Johnson (Mixer) and Tim Nielsen (Sound Designer)
Student Participants, USC: Laura Cechanozitz, Sung Rok Choi, Marcello Dubaz, Tyler Gunderson, Nahomi Maki, Ashley Maria, Kimberly Patrick, Jesse Rosenman, Bethany Sparks, Jean Tsai, Dave Turner, Mark Witte, Baihui Yang
Sound Faculty, USC: Midge Costin, Don Hall
Sound Department Staff, USC: Craig Friday, Buddy Halligan, Rich Hyland, Amy Reynolds
Engineering Graduate Student assistant, USC: Deepak Natarajan
USC Information Technology Services: Yadong Wang
USC Thornton School of Music Faculty: Brian Shepard
Technical Support, Skywalker Sound: Brian Long, Scott Brewer, Francis Aitken
Networking Support, UCSD: Brian Dunne
Technical Support, Skywalker Sound: Hector Bracho
Technology provided by: AboveNet, AJA, Apple, Avid, CENIC, Cisco Cwave, CineGrid, LifeSize Communications, NTT Network Innovation Laboratory
