Color Processing for Digital Cinema 6: An Example of Color Processing through the Entire System

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 117, No. 4, pp. 46–53
Abstract: This series of articles on color processing for digital cinema is based on the Engineering Guideline, SMPTE 432–1. The DC28 committee believed the information in that guideline would be more widely available if it were published as a series of articles in the Journal. This sixth article in the series describes some methods for producing a digital cinema distribution master (DCDM). Most of this article deals with the digital source master (DSM), a topic that the SMPTE standards don't address, because everything related to it is specific to each posthouse. Even though each posthouse may want to create the DSM in its own way, there are some general considerations that will apply to all efforts to create a DSM, and from it the DCDM.
Publication Date: 2008-05-01
DOI: 10.5594/J15101
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J15101
Author(s): Thomas O. MaierResearch fellow in the Entertainment Imaging Business Unit of Eastman Kodak Co.
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Tom Maier is a research fellow in the Entertainment Imaging Business Unit of Eastman Kodak Co. He earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois. During his 36-year career at Kodak, Maier has written computer programs to model film and digital imaging systems, has developed methods to characterize and optimize the color quality of these imaging systems, and has run psychometric experiments to confirm the image quality of his computer optimizations. He previously served on a number of the CIE committees related to color and now serves on several SMPTE DC28 standards committees for digital projection systems. Maier contributed to the standards dealing with color in the digital cinema system and was the editor of the recently issued Engineering Guideline, SMPTE 432–1–2007, “Digital Source Processing—Color Processing for D-Cinema.” Maier was honored with the SMPTE Journal award in 2004 and a Journal Certificate in 2007. He is a member of SMPTE.
Copyright: © 2008 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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3. SMPTE 431–1 , “D-Cinema Exhibition Screen Luminance Level, Chromaticity and Uniformity,” www.smpte.org . EXTERNAL
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