Francesco Bucciantini
Broadcast Encoder @Sky
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WORK HISTORY
Broadcast Encoder @Sky
My job as Broadcast Encoder (i.e a Computer Science Engineer specialized in Audio/Video related coding) involves working closely with production departments. My job involves not just writing supply chains in C++ to streamline business processes and integrate different programs together, but also encoding files manually to achieve the perfect compositing for Sky\'s Original Production, thus performing the required high bit depth precision filtering, masks and encoding with manually written C++ code to retain the director\'s view. In my years at Sky I worked on several Sky Original Productions. Thanks to my proficiency in Avisynth, I created supply chains for the Sky News and Sky Sports departments that are used on a daily basis to allow the crew to shoot and upload footage remotely; such a footage will be automatically downloaded via Aspera, indexed, encoded and checked-in in our MAM (i.e AVID Interplay via Mediadirector), keeping into consideration everything and always performing the best possible conversion (i.e using the right resizing kernel, performing 32bit float high bit depth or 16bit planar high bit depth calculations and then dithering, performing the right colormatrix, transfer and primaries conversion, including to and from different HDR-SDR formats via manually designed LUTs that are employed accordingly and so on). As a developer, I wrote several applications, the likes of VideoTek(), a Tektronix-like waveform monitor that allows people to perform QC remotely when they don\'t have a physical Tektronix hardware at hand, LinearTransformation() that allows people to perform transfer, matrix and primaries conversion in an easy fashion, SafeColorLimiter() that allows people to perform clipping at any bit depth and bring everything to limited TV range automatically, PlayoutUI, a C# and XAML application written for touch computers in our Playout to get rid of an old physical whiteboard and so on. I also contribute to several open source projects.
EDUCATION
Università di Pisa
Computer Science Engineering
Politecnico di Milano
Computer Science Engineering
Liceo Scientifico Enriquess
Indirizzo Biologico/Tradizionale
SKILLS
ABOUT FRANCESCO BUCCIANTINI
I\'m an encoder, namely a computer science engineer specialized in audio and video related…
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