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Thomas Edwards

Author: Thomas Edwards

Thomas is a Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports. He previously worked on advanced technology projects for PBS, Fox & Disney. He is a board member of the Video Services Forum, is a SMPTE Fellow, was awarded the SMPTE Workflow Systems Medal, and received an Innovator statue for VSF's Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for "Standardization of SMPTE ST 2110".

Live to tape video workflows on the cloud with Grass Valley AMPP and AWS

Traditional multi-camera production is performed with on-premises recorders and editing systems, requiring fixed cost equipment investment, and lacking the flexibility of the cloud. Grass Valley AMPP, together with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, lets you carry out efficient “live to tape” multi-camera workflows where your editors can perform their job from any location using […]

AWS supports second JPEG XS interoperability workshop at Amazon Prime Video

Representatives from AWS Partners, AWS Solutions Architecture, and Prime Video at the July 2024 JPEG XS interop in Culver City, CA. At the end of July 2024, Amazon Prime Video in Culver City, CA, hosted an interoperability workshop for multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner hardware and software vendors that use the JPEG XS video […]

Multi-view display containing "picture-in-pictures" (PIPs) of pairs of participating vendors demonstrating encoder and decoder interoperation using JPEG XS. The top banner reads "JPEG XS INTEROP WORKSHOP @ AMAZON STUDIOS", and the center contains a logo with wording "Amazon Studios Technology" and the dates "March 30 - April 1, 2022"

AWS supports JPEG XS interoperability workshop at Amazon Studios

To enhance productivity and collaboration, the Amazon Studios Technology team went looking for a way to transmit on set camera feeds and graphical workstation outputs between on-premises locations and the cloud, so that colorists, editors, and other creative workers could view content in real time – from any location, at any location – with the […]

AWS holds second CDI interoperability workshop for highest-quality live video production

AWS Media & Entertainment (M&E) customers continue to seek ways to re-invent their businesses to be more flexible and efficient in a rapidly changing media environment. Cloud processing and distribution of file-based media are now mature workloads; however, the cloud-based production of the highest value live content is a relatively new concept. Many large broadcast […]