The Unfolding Merger of Television and Movie Technology

Live show video rendering to Rec709 typically has used a simple in-camera rendering. Movies until about the year 2000 were predominantly made on film, and printed to film. — Movies have been predominantly 24fps, whereas live video has used higher motion rates. — The telecine, and also the digital film scanner, began to decouple the wide range film capture from the image produced for movie release or television release. — High-end digital cameras now capture a wide dynamic range, logically corresponding to the extended range captured on camera film negative. — A new system ingredient is the ACES system with a 16-bit half-float representation, a Reference Rendering Transform, followed by a device-specific Output Device Transform. This structure provides a unifying mechanism, bringing video and film technology closer together in underlying technology, and also in image appearance.

Published

2012-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Digital Cinema, HDTV, ACES, Mastering Formats, HDR

DOI

10.5594/M001463

ISBN

978-1-61482-952-2