The “What’s on HDtv?” blog is about video (and, occasionally, audio) in the HDTV age. This article is about 2K vs. 4K resolutions and which to choose.
Motion JPEG 200 and Digital Cinema
A presentation on the use of the Motion JPEG 2000 format for digital cinema, by Siegfried Foessel of Fraunhofer IIS.
DCC Digital Curation Manual- File Formats
This chapter from the Digital Curation Manual, File Formats, begins with a conceptual framework for format and then goes on to discuss different aspects of format description, validation and characterization. It explains how format relates to the long term curation and usability of digital data and includes overviews of related projects and developments in the field as well as describing …
Digital Intermediate Format Choices, or: How many K’s do I need?
A short but to the point description of the choice for a 2K or 4K film scanning resolution, issued by IVC Digital Film Center.
Telecine Field Dominance
This report addresses problems archives may encounter when they try to encode videotapes whose content originates from a telecine transfer of film originals. It focuses particularly on field synchronisation problems which can cause interlacing artefacts, discusses confusion over film dominance and suggests solutions. This is a technical paper targetting film transfer engineers as well as technical personnel involved in video …
Sustainability of Digital Formats. Planning for Library of Congress Collections. Format Descriptions
Contents: Still image Sound Moving Image Textual Web archive Datasets Geospatial Generic The digital content format descriptions provide specific information about individual formats and their characteristics. Each description provides moderately detailed information and citations. Planned for inclusion are a wide variety of formats: file formats, file-format classes, bitstream structures and encodings, and the mechanisms used to compress files or bitstreams. …