DOREMI MASTERS I-DIFF

Sophia Antipolis- Feb 13, 2006

DOREMI MASTERS I-DIFF

Doremi Cinema, a part of Doremi Technologies, had a major involvement in the presentation of digital movies at I-DIFF, the International Digital Film Forum recently staged in Cannes. This involved mastering and playbacks of several films for both public and private screenings using DCI-compliant JPEG2000 and MXF-Interop. For the DCI-JPEG2000 requirement for ‘Bronzes 3’, DCI-compliant mastering and authoring was performed with a Doremi DMS-2000 mastering station at Eclair Labs. Replay used a DCP-2000 replay server. This is the first time Doremi Cinema has had a major involvement with I-DIFF digital screenings. It reflects the progress made by the company with its joint developments in Sophia Antipolis and Burbank, USA. Business Development Manager, Patrick Zucchetta comments, “We have come a very long way in the last 12 months and are delighted to be able to support I-DIFF to this high level. The reactions to the screenings have all been very positive. Now there’s no doubt that the DCI standards can deliver superior quality and we can deliver the technology to make it work.” Situated in Sophia Antipolis, close to Cannes, Doremi was able to use its new lab set-up for the encoding, authoring and the replay checks of the movies: “Le Grand Charles” a 3-hour 15-minute movie about the life of General de Gaulle, a 3D demonstration movie for the Binocle company and various rolls of footage at the shooting stage of a new movie, Ocean of Jacques Perrin, famous Director of Microcosmos, Le Peuple Migrateur... The lab equipment includes a Doremi DMS-2000, which is a complete DCI-JPEG2000 mastering station supporting data rates up to 250 Mb/s and providing encoding parameter controls and a live preview. It has all the tools for 2K-image compression in one package that includes a hardware-accelerated JPEG2000 compressor and internal storage. A Doremi ORCA-CS mastering station produced the MXF-Interop material, encoding HD-SDI to HD MPEG-2 at up to 160Mb/s in real-time, and recording to its hard drive. Encoding can be previewed live or replayed later. The lab set-up also includes 12 TB of NAS storage, a full spec’d DLP-Cinema projector, a 5-metre Screen Research screen, 5.1 sound and full automation.