Digital Technologies in Cinema

Digital Cinema Technologies from the Archive’s Perspective

Security and rights management in digital cinema

This paper provides an overview of Digital Cinema including some of the architectural ideas that have been proposed and are being considered. There are a number of security tools that can be used with the goal of secure delivery of motion picture content to the projector. There are many technical and business constraints that guide these designs. Independently, there have been a number of effor...

The Evolving Digital Workflow in Cinema

This paper was presented at the CIC11 conference, Scottsdale, AZ, November 3, 2003 Abstract Full-length feature films for the cinema have been produced by photochemical methods for over 100 years, based on a three-step workflow: original photography, post-production, and release printing. In the last decades of the 20 century digital methods were first introduced for limited specialeffects task...

Exhibition QIM-based watermarking for digital cinema

The copyright protection of Digital Cinema requires the insertion of forensic watermarks during exhibition playback. This paper presents a low-complexity exhibition watermarking method based on quantization index modulation (QIM) and embedded in the DCI compliant decoder. Watermark embedding is proposed to fit in the JPEG2000 decoding process, prior to the inverse wavelet transform and such as ...

The Emergence of a Digital Cinema

Paradigmatic change is driving aesthetic change in cinema. This restructuring is not only transforming what is on the screen, but the means of production that put it there. The interplay of technology and culture, along with their dynamics has made this so. Marshall McLuhan’s Laws of Media provide an effective lens with which to examine this change. Some preliminary observations on the shape of...