Recent Advances in Transfer and Manipulation of Film Images in the Data and HDTV Domains

At the SMPTE '97 Conference and Exhibition, the concept of representing motion picture film images in a universal data format was presented. Since then, the enabling technology has met with widespread acceptance, with over 80 units of the core product being installed worldwide. — During this time also, several key building blocks have been added by the same supplier to extend the film-in-data concept, allowing the full power and flexibility of computer workstations, coupled with tremendous hardware acceleration, to be applied to the creative production and post-production processes. The successful data concept can even be ‘tunnelled’ through the high definition video domain, allowing the major benefits of the data process to be achieved in real time and using low cost video tape storage. — The paper will examine these advances, both in a tutorial manner and with illustrations of some of the real world applications, such as complete feature film post-production and multi-format DTV production, to which users are successfully putting this new technology.

Published

1999-07

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M001203

ISBN

978-1-61482-948-5