It was apt that Faultline should finish 2020 somewhere we started out – knocking at the front door of Ateme for the French vendor’s final compression masterclass of the year in what has been a relentless roster of virtual events. Ateme’s CTO Mickael Raulet took a backseat role this time around, handing over the final webinar reins to Fellow Research Engineer Thomas Guionnet, who covered everything from Ateme’s progress on next-gen codecs, including where the company stands on LCEVC, to whether he envisages a future where encoders and statistical multiplexers from different vendors interoperate. We started out looking at Ateme’s flagship Titan product suite, which Guionnet was eager to paint as not just a core codec, but technology with tricks…