Once upon a time, acquiring a standard involved writing to a far away address and then waiting "six to eight weeks" for a paper document to show up in your mailbox. By 1995 (when internet access became common) SMPTE was…
>can anyone pin point the significance of making this entirely Free? It's critical for data encodings (codecs, metadata,) because without free standards developers will attempt to reverse engineer from sample files,…
This is mostly true, with some exceptions. The Digital Cinema standards (428, 429, 430, etc.) were in fact developed in conference rooms and on whiteboards. It was a greenfield application with no incumbent formats.
Hi, asdcplib author here (mentioned in the article.) Excellent writeup of DCP and related tech. FYI the colorspace of an SDR DCP MXF file is X'Y'Z' with gamma 2.6 (see SMPTE 428-1.) Other MXF formats (i.e., not cinema)…
Once upon a time, acquiring a standard involved writing to a far away address and then waiting "six to eight weeks" for a paper document to show up in your mailbox. By 1995 (when internet access became common) SMPTE was…
>can anyone pin point the significance of making this entirely Free? It's critical for data encodings (codecs, metadata,) because without free standards developers will attempt to reverse engineer from sample files,…
This is mostly true, with some exceptions. The Digital Cinema standards (428, 429, 430, etc.) were in fact developed in conference rooms and on whiteboards. It was a greenfield application with no incumbent formats.
Hi, asdcplib author here (mentioned in the article.) Excellent writeup of DCP and related tech. FYI the colorspace of an SDR DCP MXF file is X'Y'Z' with gamma 2.6 (see SMPTE 428-1.) Other MXF formats (i.e., not cinema)…