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Registration for Rome Calling has ended.
Place: Rome, Italy
Dates: June 9-10, 2011
Price: EUR 160 per person
Learn all about the radical changes now happening in production and distribution of broadcast, film and music as a consequence of new ITU and EBU standards. This compact, knowledge-boosting seminar is large enough to gather some of the industry's most influential speakers, yet personal enough that exchange of information and experience is facilitated. Seminars are strictly focused on technology, not on products.
The groundbreaking and comprehensive EBU R128 loudness recommendation is investigated from a multitude of angles, while only a few weeks earlier, ITU's loudness standard, BS.1770, will have been updated. The consequences of this update will also be evaluated and put into practical perspective.
Italy was an early mover on loudness-based transmission procedures and legislation, so the Eternal City will play an obvious host to an international assembly of audio professionals. The event takes place in a beautiful old building with fine acoustics in central Rome; the Auditorium della Discoteca di Stato. It's within walking distance of the great plazas, Pantheon, Forum Romanum, Trastevere, Colosseum, Fontana di Trevi, etc.
Welcome to an event that is guaranteed to be a feast for all senses.
Thursday, June 9.
MUSIC AND FILM PRODUCTION IN RELATION TO BS.1770 AND EBU R128
9:00 Welcome, coffee
9:30 Loudness Wars part I. Thomas Lund
Consequences of hyper-compression. iTunes and normalization.
10:30 Loudness Wars part II. Bob Katz
A historic perspective on music loudness. Calibrated listening.
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Dynamics processing in production. George Massenburg
Creative and sensible use of compression and limiting.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Film mixing. Simone Corelli
Cinema requirements, calibrated listening, dialog.
14:30 Music mixing. Florian Camerer
Mixing and processing of WLR programs.
15:15 Coffee, visit to on-site museum of historical recording tools
16:00 Master Class. Bob Katz
Tools of the mastering engineer with listening examples.
17:00 Design of film mixing rooms. Dino D'Ambrosio.
17:30 Tête-à-tête
18:00 Close
Friday, June 10.
BROADCAST PRODUCTION AND TRANSMISSION IN RELATION TO EBU R128
9:00 Welcome, hands-on, coffee
9:30 EBU R128 introduction. Florian Camerer
The fundamentals. Loudness Zen. EBU Tech documents.
10:30 EBU R128 in production and transmission. Thomas Lund
Handling of commercials, up/down conversion, mobile platforms.
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Broadcaster's view. Alessandro Travaglini
Current experience. AC3 metadata. Legal aspects. Logging.
12:30 Design of post mixing rooms. Dino D'Ambrosio.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 EBU R128 in distribution. Richard van Everdingen Distribution overview. Cross-platform procedures. EBU Tech 3344.
15:00 ITU status and the global loudness perspective.
ATSC, Japan, Australia, EBU E-CA. Topics under discussion.
Florian Camerer, Richard van Everdingen, George Massenburg, Thomas Lund
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Tête-à-tête
18:00 Close
