New White Paper Lays Out Innovative Ways to Enable Creative Workflows that are Flexible Efficient and Embrace Change

Jim Helman and Raymond Drewry of MovieLabs Win Engineering Emmy Award for their work in creating the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR)

Following the Success of Last Year’s Inaugural Showcase Program, MovieLabs is Again Calling for Case Studies that Illustrate the Principles of the 2030 Vision Being Demonstrated Today

MovieLabs to Lead Discussion on the 2030 Vision and Host Case Study Presentations from their 2030 Showcase Program

Featured Case Studies Demonstrate Progress and Momentum Across Range of Content Creation and Distribution Technologies and Workflows

Designed to Highlight Organizations Implementing the Principles of the 2030 Vision, Enabling Interoperability, and Responding to the Changing Media Landscape

MovieLabs Publishes Recommended Security Practices for the Use of Cloud Services for Production

Innovative Visual Toolkit Delivers a Suite of Design Elements for the Media and Entertainment Industry

Hollywood Studios Enhance Interoperability via a Framework for Developers Building Interoperable Software and Services for the Media & Entertainment Industry

We took a pivotal role at this years HPA Tech Retreat which took place virtually across March 15-24.

MovieLabs, and its staff, are honored to be shortlisted for several DEG TechOps Awards.

MovieLabs is partnering with HPA Tech Retreat to provide strategic insight for the 2021 Show, happening virtually March 15-24.

Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs) has appointed Spencer Stephens to the role of Senior Vice President, Production Technology and Security.

San Francisco, January 27, 2021 – Motion Picture Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs) today released a new MovieLabs Security Architecture to provide a framework for implementation of a new approach to protection of cloud production workflows. The architecture is published...

On January 28th, SMPTE Hollywood will host senior technology executives from MovieLabs, Sony Pictures and Universal Pictures in a virtual panel discussion on their shared vision for the future of the film and television industry.

MovieLabs has updated its Enhanced Content Protection Specification

As recent events have illustrated, the media industry’s need for more sophisticated remote collaboration capabilities in virtually every content creation category has never been greater.

As part of a busy schedule of speaking opportunities before the year end, SVP of Technology Craig Seidel will be presenting at the OTT.X Pipeline about the Future of Media Creation and Distribution.

Next week on December 8, MovieLabs will be speaking at the Content Protection Summit.

Watch it live 17th November 2020 at 15:00 GMT or catch-up on-demand afterwards.

On November 5th 2020, Raymond Drewry gave a presentation to the Smart ContentEU conference that built on the MovieLabs 2030 Vision for the future of media creation by providing additional information on software defined workflows.

Moving from Principals to Practice

Join Raymond Drewry this week at SmartContentEU

Empowering Creative Processes with Software-Defined Workflows

Virtual presentation of Software Defined Workflows – moving from principles into practice

It was exactly a year ago at the IBC conference in Amsterdam that the MovieLabs 2030 Vision was launched.

It’s been almost a year since we published our paper on what media creation would look like in the future.

The University of Southern California’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC@USC) VFX Working Group has published a specification for best practices naming image sequences such as plates and comps.

We were delighted to contribute to a deep dive look by IBC365

The IBC Accelerator program continues to help broadcasters, studios and media & entertainment organizations collaborate to drive innovation throughout the year.

MovieLabs has released a detailed breakdown of workflow information that may be relevant to the development of Covid-19 health and safety guidelines.

MovieLabs took part in NAB Tech Talks as part of the virtual show

Read Feed Magazine’s ‘Welcome to Cloud Studio City’ article.

Los Angeles, December 10, 2019 -- Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs), together with member studios, has published a new white paper that lays out security principles for the future of production where all assets will be stored in the cloud and all...

In August MovieLabs – made up of five of the biggest Hollywood studios launched its 10-year vision for the industry. James Pearce spoke with the organisation’s leaders at SMPTE2019 in Los Angeles. Click here to read the article in full In 10 years, an entire industry...

Following the publication of our Future of Media Production White Paper, (available to download here) we hosted a panel session at IBC2019 with our studio partners with whom we are collaborating to drive change in our industry to enhance production workflows. Click...

In recent years there has been substantial discussion around the entertainment ecosystem of the need for a standardized, non-confidential talent identifier. Studios and talent agencies and organizations such as HITS, EIDR and MESA have led active dialogues on the...

Los Angeles, August 20, 2019 - Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs), together with member studios, has published a new white paper presenting an industry vision for the future of media creation in 2030. The paper, jointly authored by MovieLabs and technology...

The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), a neutral forum for open source software development in the motion picture and media industries, today announced that Amazon Web Services has joined the Foundation as a Premier member, Rodeo FX as a General member, and MovieLabs...

Artificial Intelligence company Expert System today announced the availability in its Cogito® AI platform of the Creative Works Ontology developed by MovieLabs, the non-profit R&D joint venture started by the major Hollywood studios. MovieLabs’s Creative Works...

MovieLabs will be participating  in several sessions at this year’s NAB 2019 in Las Vegas. Sunday, April 7:Craig Seidel, MovieLab’s Senior Vice President of Distribution Technology, will be speaking at the CDSA (Content Distribution Security Alliance) conference in...

MovieLabs and Universal Pictures were delighted to host the Hollywood Reception for the Mayor of London’s International Business Programme trade mission in late March. Ten of London’s fasted-growing, innovative creative companies travelled to LA to meet with key...

DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) and Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs), together with member studios, retailers, and service providers, have approved and released four updated supply chain...

MovieLabs now has an office on the Westside of Los Angeles. The new Santa Monica office will provide a Southern California complement to MovieLabs’ existing offices in San Francisco, California. We are excited to join the vibrant community of entertainment and...

At an event in Los Angeles on October 30, 2018, MovieLabs and Intel partnered to bring together six emerging companies to speak with studio technologists about Hollywood applications for machine learning and AI technologies. The companies included: Conversational...

As media companies add more and more data sources to fuel machine learning and other future applications, the industry needs both better enterprise systems and better core data infrastructure for the industry as a whole. There is a growing need for a standard,...

An updated version of the MovieLabs ECP specification (ECP 1.2) is now available. The updates to the specification address three principal areas: (1) Recently surfaced security vulnerabilities in microprocessors that can impact DRM and other content protection...

New framework designed to enhance cooperation among group members to strengthen the Digital Supply Chain DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) and MovieLabs are pleased to mark the beginning of a new, closer alignment...

EIDR, the source of universal identifiers for digital distribution of movie and television assets, has appointed a slate of new officers to its Board of Directors, additionally welcoming back Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to the EIDR Board. Bill Kotzman, Partner...

FEED, a new industry magazine recently launched in Europe focusses on the technology and challenges of the media supply chain for TV, Film and Home Entertainment.  Editor Neal Romenek approached us to interview CEO Rich Berger as part of their Industry Genius Section....

Scripted studio content is typically color-graded for each intended display system – whether it is cinema, SDR consumer displays, or HDR consumer displays. Consumers enjoy the best experience when content is viewed using the display system for which it was created. In...

With six months under his belt, the DEG reached out to our CEO Rich Berger to learn why he believes Movielabs is the place where the major studios can team up to focus on emerging technologies that have real potential to change the industry for the better.  Click here...

As part of our commitment to regularly review and refine the best practice framework that supports Supply Chain Automation we have published updated versions of four key elements within the MovieLabs Digital Distribution Framework (MDDF). Common Metadata 1.7 Media...

Digital supply chain workflows are moving steadily toward full automation. Standardization of digital Avails through broad adoption of EMA Avails version 1.6 has been a significant milestone in advancement of a standard specification for delivery of Avails from...

San Francisco, September 26, 2017 Motion Picture Laboratories, the studio-backed research and development venture, today announced the appointment of Richard Berger as President & Chief Executive Officer. Berger will lead MovieLabs’ cross-industry initiatives...

The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) today announced that the newest version of the EMA Avails schema has been approved by the EMA Avails Working Group and is now available. The EMA Avails schema is a standardized communication of data about content available...

EIDR, the source of universal identifiers for digital distribution of movie and television assets, has appointed Will Kreth to lead the organization. Will is tasked with guiding EIDR into the next phase of its mission to provide industry standard identification for...

We believe that the digital supply chain can be automated almost fully, allowing products to flow seamlessly from studios to retailers. Over the last several years a concerted effort from studios, retailers, service providers and industry consortiums has created a...

YouTube Financial Reports Will Include EIDR IDs for Google Play Transactions; Disney, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. Among Participants Mountain View, California, April 18, 2017. Google has announced that YouTube Transactional reports have been improved to include the...

MovieLabs’ Kip Welch discusses the EIDR unique identifier standard and its use in audience measurement with beet.tv following the selection of Kantar Media’s audio watermarking technology for standardization by the SMPTE Open ID Working...

The VR Forum was founded at CES 2017 with MovieLabs among one of the founding members. The purpose of the group is to promote voluntary industry consensus around common technical standards for the end-to-end VR ecosystem, from creation to delivery and consumption....

MovieLab’s CTO Jim Helman predicts key developments in the entertainment industry for 2017 in Rapid TV News, including the arrival of HDR, the development of virtual reality and the increased use of data analytics by the film industry. Read on to find out more....

Comcast announced enhanced movie extras on its X1 platform using new technology standards developed by MovieLabs. December 16, 2016 – Comcast

The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR), the global registry of unique content identification of which MovieLabs is a founding member, registered its 1 millionth record, assigning this milestone ID to the remake of the iconic musical drama A Star is Born from Warner...

Irdeto’s Bruce Curtain discusses the popularity of 4K UHD content and the MovieLabs specifications for producing and distributing 4K content. July 8, 2016 – B&C

How are studios, distributors, and service providers delivering tens of thousands of titles across hundreds of territories in all the versions and with all the metadata needed by viewers?

Congratulations to Craig Seidel, #26 on VOD Professional's top 50 for 2016.

Congratulations to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for receiving a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award at CES this year for making video content more accessible with text captioning and subtitles. For the category "Standardization and Pioneering Development of...

The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) yesterday presented The Divergent Series, Amazon, HBO NOW, and Craig Seidel of MovieLabs with "Digi" Awards for outstanding achievement in digital entertainment content, retailing, innovation, and leadership. The awards...