You don’t do it maybe, but you should know about it and Steve Hullfish tells it well.
Should Know About Color Correction
You don’t do it maybe, but you should know about it and Steve Hullfish tells it well.
Super 3D Watermarking Article
Technicolor’s Security Newsletter Issue #20 has a superb article on watermarking stereoscopic 3D. It starts slow (first the dinosaurs died and they all turned into 3D pixels), but it ramps up fast and includes tiny Greek symbols for those who are inclined to such things.
But generally it fills in a lot of details that are not often discussed outside the hallowed halls:
Watermarking 3D Movies, Security Newsletter 20, Security Newsletters – Technicolor
It doesn’t mention it directly, but it is another wake-up call for getting a picture meta-data protocol and/or standard in the film-to-post realm.
Super 3D Watermarking Article
Technicolor’s Security Newsletter Issue #20 has a superb article on watermarking stereoscopic 3D. It starts slow (first the dinosaurs died and they all turned into 3D pixels), but it ramps up fast and includes tiny Greek symbols for those who are inclined to such things.
But generally it fills in a lot of details that are not often discussed outside the hallowed halls:
Watermarking 3D Movies, Security Newsletter 20, Security Newsletters – Technicolor
It doesn’t mention it directly, but it is another wake-up call for getting a picture meta-data protocol and/or standard in the film-to-post realm.
New Distractions Arrive
020113 –
American Cinematographer | Life of Pi Podcast
iTunes – Podcasts – American Cinematographer Podcasts by American Cinematographer Magazine
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Here’s is a whole lot of ouch for the eyes – so pretty they hurt:
Gallery Collection of New York City Landscape Photographs by Photographer Scott Reither
I wish I had time to write about how this would work in the obvious network:
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Attack of the week: Cross-VM side-channel attacks
The story begins with pictures of a donkey…is over 50% of movie piracy in the hands of organized crime? Well, then the story writes itself after that.
Vladimir Horowitz’s famous grand piano lures classical music fans in Vancouver (with video). That’s the SO of acoustician Michael Leader on the 88s.
New Distractions Arrive
020113 –
American Cinematographer | Life of Pi Podcast
iTunes – Podcasts – American Cinematographer Podcasts by American Cinematographer Magazine
010113 –
Here’s is a whole lot of ouch for the eyes – so pretty they hurt:
Gallery Collection of New York City Landscape Photographs by Photographer Scott Reither
I wish I had time to write about how this would work in the obvious network:
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Attack of the week: Cross-VM side-channel attacks
The story begins with pictures of a donkey…is over 50% of movie piracy in the hands of organized crime? Well, then the story writes itself after that.
Vladimir Horowitz’s famous grand piano lures classical music fans in Vancouver (with video). That’s the SO of acoustician Michael Leader on the 88s.
New Distractions Arrive
020113 –
American Cinematographer | Life of Pi Podcast
iTunes – Podcasts – American Cinematographer Podcasts by American Cinematographer Magazine
010113 –
Here’s is a whole lot of ouch for the eyes – so pretty they hurt:
Gallery Collection of New York City Landscape Photographs by Photographer Scott Reither
I wish I had time to write about how this would work in the obvious network:
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: Attack of the week: Cross-VM side-channel attacks
The story begins with pictures of a donkey…is over 50% of movie piracy in the hands of organized crime? Well, then the story writes itself after that.
Vladimir Horowitz’s famous grand piano lures classical music fans in Vancouver (with video). That’s the SO of acoustician Michael Leader on the 88s.
Gone and Back Again–Return of The Hobbitses
Film is dead and badly done CGI is dead and it is about time that badly done 3D be dead too. In the future, that will mean 24fps shown as 96fps (triple flashing the same picture) is dead and it won’t mean replacing it with 48fps double-flashing.
As we learned at the 2012 SMPTE/NAB DCinema Days event (or whatever they are called now), there are problems with 48fps that are alleviated at somewhere above 52fps. Jackson’s representative (Phil Oatley, the post group head of technology from Park Road Post) said that 48 was chosen because they didn’t know if 60fps was achievable in the exhibition field, so they stuck with what seemed do-able: 2X the frames and the data rate.
Even at that, Warner Bros. wasn’t sure enough of the field changes to trust that audio tracks for the blind or visually impaired wouldn’t negatively affect the movie, so were left out of the HFR mix. (Captions with 3D are still a different Pandora’s Box.)
But 48fps was shown to the SMPTE/NAB attendees to be the wrong choice by Dr. Marty Banks (of the Visual Space Perception Laboratory at the University of California – my tax dollars at work~!) Presumably Jackson is in too deep to change from 48. But there is no news that anyone else is going to follow. The next announced HFR (besides Hobbit II) will be Avatar II’s 60fps, and the script isn’t written for that.
So film is unwatchable and thankfully dead. HFR as announced will be a rare jewel – though wouldn’t it be nice if Disney/Pixar/Lucas were to surprise us. Katzenberg announced at CinemaCon 2011 that we should expect new chips from them that will dramatically change computation time in production and post…maybe that will bring more/better as well.
That leaves exhibition. It was relatively painless to get to 48fps. 60fps is a different story. Will a doubling of the datarate to 500mb/s suffice? Testing remains, but at least there is time to do it. Perhaps now there will be some backing for the www.image.matters.pro road show. Image Matters Powers High Frame Rate Digital Cinema Quality
Gone and Back Again–Return of The Hobbitses
Film is dead and badly done CGI is dead and it is about time that badly done 3D be dead too. In the future, that will mean 24fps shown as 96fps (triple flashing the same picture) is dead and it won’t mean replacing it with 48fps double-flashing.
As we learned at the 2012 SMPTE/NAB DCinema Days event (or whatever they are called now), there are problems with 48fps that are alleviated at somewhere above 52fps. Jackson’s representative (Phil Oatley, the post group head of technology from Park Road Post) said that 48 was chosen because they didn’t know if 60fps was achievable in the exhibition field, so they stuck with what seemed do-able: 2X the frames and the data rate.
Even at that, Warner Bros. wasn’t sure enough of the field changes to trust that audio tracks for the blind or visually impaired wouldn’t negatively affect the movie, so were left out of the HFR mix. (Captions with 3D are still a different Pandora’s Box.)
But 48fps was shown to the SMPTE/NAB attendees to be the wrong choice by Dr. Marty Banks (of the Visual Space Perception Laboratory at the University of California – my tax dollars at work~!) Presumably Jackson is in too deep to change from 48. But there is no news that anyone else is going to follow. The next announced HFR (besides Hobbit II) will be Avatar II’s 60fps, and the script isn’t written for that.
So film is unwatchable and thankfully dead. HFR as announced will be a rare jewel – though wouldn’t it be nice if Disney/Pixar/Lucas were to surprise us. Katzenberg announced at CinemaCon 2011 that we should expect new chips from them that will dramatically change computation time in production and post…maybe that will bring more/better as well.
That leaves exhibition. It was relatively painless to get to 48fps. 60fps is a different story. Will a doubling of the datarate to 500mb/s suffice? Testing remains, but at least there is time to do it. Perhaps now there will be some backing for the www.image.matters.pro road show. Image Matters Powers High Frame Rate Digital Cinema Quality
Ouch~! If I can’t bankrupt a Post House…DD, 3D, In3, Disney
Can’t say for certain if a particular post site owner / producer actually said that he wasn’t trying hard enough if he couldn’t bankrupt a post house during one of his movie’s post. But like shuffling lounge chairs on the Titanic, Digital Domain and In-Three and Disney are all involved in the dustup coming from that mentality.
Disney Seeks to Protect Right to Create 3D Movies in Digital Domain Bankruptcy – Hollywood Reporter
Ouch~! If I can’t bankrupt a Post House…DD, 3D, In3, Disney
Can’t say for certain if a particular post site owner / producer actually said that he wasn’t trying hard enough if he couldn’t bankrupt a post house during one of his movie’s post. But like shuffling lounge chairs on the Titanic, Digital Domain and In-Three and Disney are all involved in the dustup coming from that mentality.
Disney Seeks to Protect Right to Create 3D Movies in Digital Domain Bankruptcy – Hollywood Reporter
Distractions…Too Much Interesting
6 December
The ASC: SIDE BY SIDE: Part One—A Point of View « John Bailey’s Bailiwick
iTunes – Podcasts – American Cinematographer Podcasts by American Cinematographer Magazine
Resolution vs. Aliasing: Implications for Motion Capture
3 December – The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: Full Color Excerpt, By America’s Top Satirical Newswriters
Where Are You Android Users? | TPM Editors Blog
EDCF Film Festival Tech Project – Interested? Write this editor…cjflynn@ this site
5 November – Slowing the speed of light game
A Slower Speed of Light | MIT Game Lab
5 Oct – Data scientists urged to share their big data skills with UK charities | IT PRO / This article is all over the map…but it is a starting point for a discussion for our industry. So many potentials. Someone please surprise me with an article on the subject for the entertainment technologies business please.
The coolest “like a desert” theater design: magma architecture: masrah al qasba theater from designboom – You must scoll down to see the pictures.
Just in case you think that layouts need to be aestetic…here’s what happens when they are: Dataisnature
Ya just gotta know about Wood Gasification: Wood Gasification | GASEK
Distractions…Too Much Interesting
6 December
The ASC: SIDE BY SIDE: Part One—A Point of View « John Bailey’s Bailiwick
iTunes – Podcasts – American Cinematographer Podcasts by American Cinematographer Magazine
Resolution vs. Aliasing: Implications for Motion Capture
3 December – The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: Full Color Excerpt, By America’s Top Satirical Newswriters
Where Are You Android Users? | TPM Editors Blog
EDCF Film Festival Tech Project – Interested? Write this editor…cjflynn@ this site
5 November – Slowing the speed of light game
A Slower Speed of Light | MIT Game Lab
5 Oct – Data scientists urged to share their big data skills with UK charities | IT PRO / This article is all over the map…but it is a starting point for a discussion for our industry. So many potentials. Someone please surprise me with an article on the subject for the entertainment technologies business please.
The coolest “like a desert” theater design: magma architecture: masrah al qasba theater from designboom – You must scoll down to see the pictures.
Just in case you think that layouts need to be aestetic…here’s what happens when they are: Dataisnature
Ya just gotta know about Wood Gasification: Wood Gasification | GASEK
HFR, New ‘Silver Screen’ and 2 Hobbit Projectors
The Christie PR on the dual projector set up is at the end of this article for download.
Here are some interesting articles on HFR (High Frame Rate):
Beyond DCI – The Need for New D-Cinema Standards – Rajesh Ramachandran, CTO of Qube
Setting Standards for High Frame Rate Digital Cinema – Creative COW
Setting Standards for High Frame Rate Digital Cinema PART 2 – Creative COW
Variable HFR (High Frame Rate) Film Blog #1 | S3D Centre
Q&A ON HFR 3D Peter Jackson answers with some details on S3D48
HFR, New ‘Silver Screen’ and 2 Hobbit Projectors
The Christie PR on the dual projector set up is at the end of this article for download.
Here are some interesting articles on HFR (High Frame Rate):
Beyond DCI – The Need for New D-Cinema Standards – Rajesh Ramachandran, CTO of Qube
Setting Standards for High Frame Rate Digital Cinema – Creative COW
Setting Standards for High Frame Rate Digital Cinema PART 2 – Creative COW
Variable HFR (High Frame Rate) Film Blog #1 | S3D Centre
Q&A ON HFR 3D Peter Jackson answers with some details on S3D48