The HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management, and dissemination of content. Every year, a world-class roster of well-known and emerging leaders in engineering,...

San Francisco, September 7, 2022 - MovieLabs, the technology joint venture of the major Hollywood motion picture studios, has announced the initial 2030 Vision Showcase selections that illustrate aspects of the 2030 Vision that have been implemented today.  The...

Designed to Highlight Organizations Implementing the Principles of the 2030 Vision, Enabling Interoperability, and Responding to the Changing Media Landscape San Francisco, June 29, 2022 - MovieLabs, the technology joint venture of the major Hollywood motion picture...

The Enhanced Content Protection for Production provides a unifying set of recommended practices for those designing, building, configuring, or assessing the security of production workflows in the cloud Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs), a technology...

MovieLabs releases a visual language guide and a suite of design elements to help developers and producers create and communicate workflows in a visually consistent way that can be implemented and understood across the industry. Building on the Ontology for Media...

San Francisco, Sept 16, 2021 — Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs), a technology joint venture of the major Hollywood studios, has published the first version of a common ontology for production technologists designing software-defined workflows (SDW) for...

We took a pivotal role at this years HPA Tech Retreat which took place virtually across March 15-24. We presented across three strategic topics, hosted a number of round tables, provided a sneak peek of a common visual language we are developing for the industry, and...

MovieLabs, and its staff, are honored to be shortlisted for several DEG TechOps Awards. Movielabs work is being highlighted as it has focused on designing and specifying real-world technical solutions that have been widely adopted and have become an integral part of...

MovieLabs is partnering with HPA Tech Retreat to provide strategic insight for the 2021 Show, happening virtually March 15-24. MovieLabs will be presenting across three strategic topics, hosting a number of round tables, providing a sneak peek of a common visual...

San Francisco, March 4, 2021 - Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs) has appointed Spencer Stephens to the role of Senior Vice President, Production Technology and Security. Spencer joins the non-profit research technology lab full-time. He previously...

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. A nonprofit technology research lab...

MovieLabs has updated its Enhanced Content Protection Specification, which can be found here. Since its original publication in 2013, the MovieLabs Enhanced Content Protection Specification has raised the bar for protecting 4K, HDR and early window content in consumer...

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. With that need comes more urgency regarding the development of interoperable...

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. Tune in to hear an update on the MovieLabs 2030 Vision and how it...

Next week on December 8, MovieLabs will be speaking at the Content Protection Summit. Register for the virtual event to hear MovieLabs Lead Technologist of Production Security, Spencer Stephens, give an exclusive preview of the security architecture to be launched in...

Don't miss our Hollywood Studio Technology Leadership 2030 Vision Update available through IBC - International Broadcasting Convention's IBC Showcase. Watch it live tomorrow at 15:00 GMT or catch-up on-demand afterwards. Register here to make sure you hear from senior...

    On November 5th 2020, Raymond Drewry gave a presentation to the Smart...

Don't miss MovieLabs's Craig Seidel present our latest white paper on Software Defined Workflows next Tuesday at the SMPTE 2020 conference. Download the free white paper: https://lnkd.in/gSFRDni. Register for SMPTE 2020 conference: https://hubs.li/H0zbQ3Z0 #GameOn...

Join Raymond Drewry this week at SmartContentEU 5th November 12.30-17.00GMT. where he  will be talking about Software Defined Workflows: 'Moving from Principles to Practice' There is a full conference program and we hope you will join the seminar to hear discussions...

San Francisco, October 30, 2020 – Motion Picture Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs), together with member studios, has published a new paper in its series of 2030 Vision white papers. The new paper, titled “The Evolution of Production Workflows: Empowering Creative...

Last week at the ConnecTech Asia conference, CTO Jim Helman gave a virtual presentation sharing the next phase of the MovieLabs 2030 Vision. Working with our studio partners, we have laid out a common strategy to help bring our industry together to define best...

It was exactly a year ago at the IBC conference in Amsterdam that the MovieLabs 2030 Vision was launched. Much has changed since then and whist we were unable to travel in 2020, we were delighted to participate in a virtual panel to discuss the evolution of content...

It's been almost a year since we published our paper on what media creation would look like in the future. A lot has happened in the last few months which has accelerated many of these changes. MovieLabs CEO, Rich Berger, spoke to Randi Altman, the editor of...

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. File naming is an essential tool for organizing the multitude...

We were delighted to contribute to a deep dive look by IBC365 at how the principals we laid out in our 10-year vision white paper last year, The Evolution of Media Creation, are being adopted as cloud-based production workflows are becoming a reality. COVID-19 has...

Although IBC2020 has been cancelled, the IBC Accelerator program continues to help broadcasters, studios and media & entertainment organizations collaborate to drive innovation throughout the year. It provides an environment for virtual multi-company R&D....

In an effort to assist with safe resumption of film and television production, MovieLabs has released a detailed breakdown of workflow information that may be relevant to the development of Covid-19 health and safety guidelines. The document lists categories of work...

The NAB Show 2020 was cancelled, but MovieLabs took part in NAB Tech Talks as part of the virtual show. CEO Rich Berger together with Board member Bill Baggelaar, EVP & CTO Technology Development at Sony Pictures Entertainment, joined a virtual discussion of how...

In next months edition of Feed Magazine you can read their 'Welcome to Cloud Studio City' article which uses our 2030 Vision for the future of Media Production as their basis to assess how quickly the production supply chain will move to be largely cloud based. You...

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...