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RAPIDLY BUILDING A 4K LIBRARY
SONY PICTURES HAS THE LARGEST 4K LIBRARY OF ANY STUDIO
• Sony has been working on remastering titles in 4K since 2012.
• Collaboration with our TV manufacturing unit has helped us to anticipate the demand that will be coming for 4K content.
• Many recent film and TV programmes have been shot in 4K.
THE CHALLENGE: 100 TITLES IN ONE YEAR
•We had to go back to the original camera negative and original 4k Digital Sources to create 4k Masters
NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE PRODUCTION
THE SONY IMF FORMAT• Interoperable Master Format• Compressed master format allows us to transfer and
do more work with 4K master files.• Overall Benefits of IMF:
• Decreases storage requirements due to compression• Decreases storage and inventory needs when using
component based structures• Maintains High Quality• Can be easily delivered over ethernet networks• Extensible (App2e, App2e+,…)
• Next Gen Spec targeting max brightness 10000 nits
– Current: Theater 48nits, HD-TV 100nits (some brighter TV does up to 500nits)
– Next gen projection / display HDR capability under discussion
• New transfer curve (Gamma coding is not optimal for HDR)
• Minimum 12bit bit depth to avoid banding
HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR)
• New Digital Camera (e.g. Sony F65, F55)
captures image with much higher dynamic range
• New creative possibilities
● Spectacular highlights, details in
shadows, can be graded to look real.
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• Current HD (and 4K/UHD in 2013) uses Rec.709, and xvYCC for wide colour.
• ITU-R BT.2020 has wider color space than HD Standard (Rec.709)
• Next gen to use colour as wide as possible to allow future displays to reproduce best picture quality.
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WIDER COLOUR GAMUT
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4K CONSUMER VIDEO WORKFLOW
FROM CLASSIC FILM TITLES REMASTERED IN 4K
AND THE LATEST HITS IN 4K
...TO A DEEP CATALOGUE
AnnieFuryGhostbusters 2 My Best Friend's Wedding Bram Stokers Dracula1776Air Force OneIn the Line of FireNo Good DeedThink Like a Man 2About Last NightMonuments MenA Few Good MenElysiumSmurfs 2Grown Ups 2After Earth
Funny GirlGuns of NavaroneHancockHard TimesJulie & JuliaLooperAngels & DemonsMen In Black 2 & 3MoneyballPhiladelphiaPremium RushSpider-Man 1 - 3The HolidayThe Last DetailThe Way We WereThink Like A ManLawrence Of Arabia
Investigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionThe Da Vinci CodeGloryThe TouristThe Ugly TruthAlamo BayIt Happened One NightCowboyGodzillaEvil Dead (2013)The PatriotJerry MaguireOn the WaterfrontBody DoublePineapple ExpressTalladega Nights
The VowHitchMask of ZorroBad TeacherBattle: Los AngelesBridge on the River KwaiKarate KidSaltTaxi DriverThat’s My BoyThe Amazing Spider-manThe Other GuysTotal RecallGroundhog Day
4K TV INVENTORY
4K TV INVENTORY
MANY MORE TV TITLES COMING IN 4K THIS YEAR• Pilots including Outlander, Marry Me, Battle Creek and
Your Family or Mine.
