On First Day
Michael Kammes, Key Code Media
Less Clicking. More Creating. Automating Your Production Studio
This presentation explores how automation can transform live-production and post-production workflows by reducing manual steps and making complex tasks more repeatable. We will share behind the scenes of what is possible with products like Bitfocus Companion and Stream Deck, using examples from TV studios, control rooms, and post-production. Topics include camera control, video switchers, graphics, audio, and remote guest workflows, showing how smarter control helps teams work faster and more consistently.
Chris Lennon
Catena, Agentic AI and MXL: A Powerful Combination
Controlling devices using a common, standardized open-source solutions is great. SMPTE recently made the brand new ST 2138 (Catena) suite of five documents available as Public Committee Drafts, with all kinds of associated goodies on their Github repo. This is all available for free, for implementers to try out. What if we could take this all a step further, and use an Agentic AI approach to controlling any device that talks SMPTE ST 2138? Today, this is possible. Among many other cool features you get for implementing 2138, there is the ability to describe what the devices are, and how they can be controlled…in plain English. In fact, you can do this in virtually any language, and receive responses in the language of your choice. This allows AI Agents to do everything that Catena does, like voice control for any 2138-enabled device in your facility, regardless of platform, vendor, or type of device. Imagine the possibilities once you add compatibility with one of the most exciting trends in media exchange in years: MXL, part of the DMF initiative. Chris will discuss why this matters and show how it all works together.