Colour Technology for Digital Cinema
and the Digital Intermediate

The event is organized by BKSTS; information is available.

A publication-qualility flyer is available in Acrobat PDF format (280 Kbytes). It's intended for printing onto 2 sides of an A4 sheet, in color. Print it and tack it up on your bulletin board. Or, print the front side at 140% onto A3 paper and it's a poster!

Description

Digital technology has recently become an alternative to film for the origination of motion pictures, for colour grading (in the form of the digital intermediate), and for display in exhibition. Each of these developments is advancing independent of the others, leading to hybrid film-digital workflows. However, film and electronic media capture and reproduce images in fundamentally different ways. Film uses subtractive colourants (CMY), but digital cinema uses additive primaries (RGB). Film is characterized using logarithms, but digital video and computer graphics is characterized using power functions. Film and digital cinema have different colour gamuts, and are optimized for different contrast ratios.

In this 1-day Workshop, organized by BKSTS, Charles Poynton will detail the colour science that underlies image reproduction in digital cinema. He explain how colour is captured, encoded, and reproduced in HDTV, computer graphics, and film. He will discuss practical details of maintaining colour quality through the imaging pipeline, with particular attention to the digital intermediate. Participants will gain an understanding of the factors that need to be addressed to achieve accurate colour, and learn pragmatic techniques that can be used to successfully implement digital cinema.

Who Should Attend

The attendee should be very familiar with digital video and/or digital film, and should have no fear of mathematics. The Workshop will be suitable for people in positions such as these:

• Senior technical staff of studios, post-production facilities, and film labs
• Post-production and Visual effects supervisors and technicians
• Colourists, lighters, shaders, and compositors
• Technically-minded Cinematographers and Assistant cinematographers
• Digital cinema product developers and technical managers

A Syllabus is available.

Registration fee is GBP 75 (VAT inclusive). Lunch is included; handout notes will be provided. To enroll, contact: www.bksts.com.

The day after this event, a one-day hands-on workshop, Colour Management for Digital Video and Film, will be held at the London College of Communication. A discount will be offered to attendees of this workshop. For further information, send e-mail: concatenate surname at surname dot com

Charles Poynton - Courses & seminars
www.poynton.com/notes/events/
2004-07-20