Digital Cinema Society

ARRI announced that it will support the new Apple ProRes 4444 XQ codec in the next Software Update Packet for Alexa cameras. ProRes 4444 XQ is designed to preserve detail in high dynamic range images. According to ARRI's Marc Shipman-Mueller, “Up until now, the ProRes 4444 330 Mb/s version has been the workhorse ... [ Read: ARRI Announces Support for New ProRes 4444 XQ Codec ]

Blackmagic Design has announced a Summer Special discount on the Pocket Cinema Camera. Until August 31, the Pocket Cinema Camera will be available for a new low price of $495 (USD). Blackmagic Design has announced Camera Update 1.8 and DaVinci Resolve 11.  New Camera firmware, offered free of charge, includes ... [ Read: Blackmagic Price Drop for Pocket Cinema Camera Plus Major Updates to Entire Camera Line and DaVinci Resolve ]

As discussed in my earlier posts, Director Michael Bay and the crew of, Transformers: Age of Extinction are boasting to be the first feature film to use the high-resolution IMAX® 3D Digital Camera.  In a newly released Behind-the-Scenes YouTube video the production team details how they were able to capture major ... [ Read: Newly Posted Video: IMAX Behind The Frame on Transformers: Age of Extinction ]

Evolving to Meet the Challenges of Making a Living while Making Movies By James Mathers, Cinematographer and President of DCS For a lot of years I’ve primarily earned my living shooting Indie Features, or to put it in less glamorous terms, Low Budget movies.  I’m talking about budgets that would typically fall ... [ Read: Evolving to Meet the Challenges of Making a Living while Making Movies - June 2014 ]

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, (SMPTE) has announced plans to consolidate some services with the Hollywood Post Alliance. The move portends further cooperation and eventually combining of the two organizations. The announcement was made yesterday, (6-17-14) by SMPTE at their Stanford University ... [ Read: DCS Sister Organizations, SMPTE and HPA Announce Plans to Merge ]

We are very excited to share our latest streaming content, coverage of our 2014 New Lighting Technology Event. It took place May 31st on the stage at Hollywood Rentals and featured new gear, (in Alphabetical order), from ARRI, Cineo Lighting, Digital Sputnik, Kino Flo, Litepanels, Nila, Olesen, Red Scorpion LEDs, and ... [ Read: Now Streaming: DCS 2014 New Lighting Technology Event ]

IMAX has announced that it has developed an integrated Dual 65mm sensor 4K 3D camera which has been used on Michael Bay’s upcoming, Transformers: Age of Extinction. They claim that this is “the first true 4K stereo camera, which captures both left and right eye images at full 4K resolution.” According to the ... [ Read: New 3D IMAX Dual Sensor 65mm 4K used on "Transformers" ]

Our congratulations to several DCS members who in addition to Fifth Term President Richard Crudo, have also been announced as ASC Officers; they include Vice President Kees Van Oostrum, Secretary Fred Goodich, and sergeant-at-arms, Isidore Mankofsky.  The newly elected board members who are also DCS members include ... [ Read: DCS Member Richard Crudo to Serve a Fifth Term as ASC President ]

While built on a foundation of production sound equipment, providing video production tools has also become a growing specialty for the company. To emphasis this expanding focus, a new brand has been developed to represent current and future company products that record picture. The Video Devices brand will not ... [ Read: Sound Devices introduces the new brand to be known as Video Devices ]

At NAB Blackmagic unveiled version 11 of their world-renowned color correction software, DaVinci Resolve.  New features include multi-GPU, real-time performance, improved online editing, and it adds context-sensitive trimming.   Also added are new features to make the DIT life a little easier in both the media management ... [ Read: Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve 11 to Ship in June ]