RGB HD-Efficiencies in the Digital Intermediate Process

摘要

The growing dependence on the use of Digital Intermediate (DI) processes to preserve, enhance, and transform artistic intent to the cinema screen is well underway, and while there are still issues of standardization yet to be reconciled, the popularity and demand for DI processes among the creative community continues to grow at an exponential rate. Although the current industry goal is 4K DI workflows, they are generally considered impractical at this point in time for a number of reasons. Therefore, we see more adaptable 2K processes applied to the DI in the interim as it will likely be some time before 4K processes are considered cost effective. Be it 2K or 4K, the prospect of data looms large over the post production industry and the question of the day is: "Will it be necessary to completely retool to a data infrastructure in order to compete in this new 2K world, or can existing 4:2:2 HD infrastructures be adapted to full band RGB HD 10 bit Log video workflows to achieve comparable and predictable results?"