DCinemaTools

Cinema Test Tools is a free resource for the cinema industry, tuned most particularly for the non-technical manager. The tools include several DCPs, all with interesting means of testing the sound and picture quality for the interested by lightly trained staff. The lessons on sound and light are written to provide a foundation to communicate with the technician who must respond quickly and well to the information that they discover.

The key is a free Online Managers Online Walk Through Checklist that correlates with the many DCPs. It helps bring an understanding of the many nuances of the auditorium's situation in a straightforward way.

A source for information from the Societies and consultants...

Nominations Open for Celluloid Junkie’s Top Women in Global Cinema 2019

Details: Category: Web Posting of the Week; 17 Feb 2019

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As Celluloid Junkie gets its nomination list on for this years Top Women in Global Cinema 2019 recognition fest, (https://celluloidjunkie.com/wire/nominations-open-for-celluloid-junkies-top-women-in-global-cinema-2019/), and coming off of another year that SMPTE pushes hard on the technical side of Women in Cinema, we note an interesting article on the subject.

If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you haven’t been paying attention comes in strong with data data data about 'natural bias' (among other problems) and some good news in the end. ...and things that can be done more better in the future.

Great Online Glossary of Terms

Details: Category: Societies; 20 Dec 2017

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Many of us will remember the great Digital Fact Book that Quantel used to supply us at conventions during the 80s and 90s. It went online in 2015, just at the time that Quantel was bought by Snell.

That great glossary is now published by Snell by arrangement of the broadcast and media industry trade association as the IABM Glossary of Terms.

The link for the Glossary is: IABM Glossary of Terms.

And this is the link for the IABM.

HDR Explained – for the rest of us...

Details: Category: Courses; 05 Jan 2019

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Explained for camera people, but well done for all of us...

Michael Cioni and Aaron Kroger of Panavision pretend that they are uniquely qualified to explain HDR because they aren't PhD graduates – which somehow equates to being simpletons who tripped into their senior management jobs. Yet, they have scrapped together a wonderfully scrappy explanation of HDRs nuance. Fun, rarely obtuse and hijacks ensue, as the movie plug often says. HDR Explained Expertly