Software for Viewing and Converting Digital Cinema Materials

摘要

Digital cinema (d-cinema) is the highest quality electronic motion imagery forentertainment. The cinema is presented in a theatrical environment, with high brightness projectors, high rate data transfer, and high resolution color imagery. The entertainment industry uses formats that are specific to film-based electronic imagery. This report describes software tools for viewing digital cinema specific imagery (DPX format) and converting it to and from other common image formats, such TIFF, BMP, and JPG. It includes sample test imagery, which has been generated in connection with recent d-cinema system tests. The d-cinema viewer/converter is available on line.