SMPTE Journal ( Volume: 108, Issue: 9, September 1999)
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Improving the Quality of Film to Digital Transfers for Digital Cinema
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- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- SMPTE J
- Volume
- 108, No. 9, pp. 642–644
- Abstract
- High-quality screen picture performance is the ultimate technical goal of digital cinema. Tests have been performed by projecting movies from standard and high-definition (HD) telecine transfers intended for home video and HD broadcast applications. The results of these tests have fallen short of the image quality needed for large screen theatrical projection. This paper reports on a project undertaken to improve image quality by altering the source characteristics through adjustments in the telecine transfer process. The work is based on using a display having identical characteristics to the ultimate theatrical projector to perform the transfers. This has resulted in transfer images with a quality different from the “standard,” using CRT monitors as the transfer target. The image was improved by concentrating on the treatment of the following: gamma, black-and-white crushing and clipping, colorimetry, and digital enhancement.
- Publication Date
- 1999-09-01
- DOI
10.5594/J17593- ISSN
- Print:
0036-1682 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/J17593
- Author(s)
- Matt CowanEntertainment Technology Consultants, Los Angeles, CA 90014
bio
Matthew Cowan has worked in the area of large screen electronic projection for the last 18 years. Before forming Entertainment Technology Consultants, he was director of technology for Electrohome Ltd., working on high-brightness projectors for high-performance applications. Cowan formed ETC six years ago and has been working on projects aimed at improving the picture quality of electronic projection. He is a pioneer in the process of using the projector as the target display in telecine to achieve a theatrical look in the projected image. Cowan has presented seminars on projected image quality and has written and produced an image quality tutorial, published on CD-ROM.Loren NielsenEntertainment Technology Consultants, Los Angeles, CA 90014bio
M. Loren Nielsen has worked with large screen electronic projectors for the last 12 years. She has been involved in developing large screen systems for government and military applications. Eight years ago, she spearheaded an electronic cinema project for RKO Pictures and Contel. Following that, she was director of new business development for Technicolor and founded TES. the Technicolor film delivery company. Nielsen is a principal of Entertainment Technology Consultants, working with DMD-based technology, to improve image quality and its suitability for theatrical projection, involving extensive tests using clips from theatrical movies. - Copyright
- © 1999 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
Bibliographic Reference(s)
- Studies of the Influence of Display Size and Picture Brightness on the Preferred Viewing Distance for HDTV Programs [Active]
- Werner Bill Dewald Scott , “Striving to Achieve the Ultimate—Digital Cinema,” TI Tech. J. , Vol. 15 No. 3 , July-Sept. 1998 . EXTERNAL
- Poynton Charles A. , A Technical Introduction to Digital Video , John Wiley and Sons , 1995 . EXTERNAL
- Cowan William B. Ware Colin , “Colour Perception Tutorial Notes,” Siggraph ′85. EXTERNAL
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