The Gemini Process: A Theatrical-Quality Video-to-Film Transfer Process

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1989, No. 26, pp. 30–35
Abstract: A system is described for transferring video program material to film. The system provides for increased spatial resolution with a subjective improvement in image quality. Image processing hardware and software enable various treatments of source material for optimum visual quality of the final transferred image. Special hardware has been developed for controlled film recording of images. Applications include film finish of motion pictures made for television, special effects produced in the video domain put on film for composition in film post-production, and standards conversion.
Publication Date: 1989-02-01
DOI: 10.5594/M00737
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M00737
Author(s): Stewart DicksonThe Post Group Hollywood, Calif.
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Steward Dickson received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Delaware in 1981 and is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. Mr. Dickson was employed from 1981 through 1984 at the Western Electric Company (now AT&T Technologies) on permanent assignment to AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois, where he worked on the 5 ESS project. Mr. Dickson then founded a Department of Computer-Generated Imagery at Goldsholl Design and Film, Northfield, Illinois. Mr. Dickson has been employed as 3D Graphics Programmer at The Post Group since 1988.
Bill VillarrealThe Post Group Hollywood, Calif.
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Bill Villarreal received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1975 and a Master of Science degree in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1977. He is a member of SMPTE, AES, IEEE, ACM/Siggraph, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu. Mr Villarreal was employed at Hughes Aircraft Co. from 1975 to 1982 designing integrated circuits for high-speed signal processors. From 1982 to 1984 he was Engineering Manager at the UCLA Department of Motion Picture, Television and Theater. Mr. Villarreal then worked at Digital Productions from 1984 to 1986, where he performed CRAY assembly language programming, worked on high-speed frame buffers and worked with high-resolution film recorders. He has been working at The Post Group since 1986 in the Graphics Department in charge of system support and development
Copyright: © 1989 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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