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DVS presents CLIPSTER's support for Digital Cinema with DCI Mastering, JPEG2000, DCDM, and DCP (9/4/2007)

NAB 2007 attendees will learn at the DVS booth SL2608 how the German company meets the high requirements and specifications of the DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative). The DI system CLIPSTER(r) performs essential steps in the creation chain of a digital cinema movie: From the digital cinema distribution master (DCDM), over the digital cinema package (DCP) to encoding the data with the key delivery message (KDM).

In order to create a DCDM post production houses require DI systems that finalize with a high performance. Ideally the data consist of 16 bit TIFF X'Y'Z'. CLIPSTER, DVS' DI workstation, performs this process. Of course, CLIPSTER(r) will also carry out the whole DCI mastering, then compressing the data in JPEG2000 in real time at this stage.

Together with audio tracks, subtitles and other metadata these files are finalized as the DCP by bundling all source data as MXF files. CLIPSTER(r) thus allows the delivery of the data package in the correct container format via satellite, messenger or server to its final destination. To guarantee a secure encoding is crucial during this process. CLIPSTER(r) not only compresses and encodes the material but finally creates the KDM in order to configure the DCP securely and transportable.

Again, the DVS flagship demonstrates how it accelerates and optimizes DI workflows. The powerful real-time workstation offers multi-resolution, zoom and pan, conforming, color correction, cropping, and versioning capabilities - all up to 4K. CLIPSTER(r) is the world's only system that works with uncompressed image sequences such as DPX or TIFF with a color depth of 16 bit in real time, without having to render them beforehand. CLIPSTER(r) users now profit from the new feature set that allows them to enter the Digital Cinema business at an early stage and to deliver content, as specified by the DCI.

Bernhard Reitz, Head of Product Management DVS: "It has always been of utmost importance to DVS to seize or to develop technological developments early. With CLIPSTER(r), our DI workstation, we see this fact fulfilled in detail. Thanks to CLIPSTER(r) our customers are able to meet the demands of Digital Cinema and to thus shape the future's cinema."

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