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 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 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.
Current HD P3 (Digital Cinema Projector) BT.2020 (ITU-R standard for UHD) 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. Bit depth requirements under evaluation in conjunction with HDR. WIDER COLOUR GAMUT
Mastering Master File (IMF) Watching Image Capture Image Rendering Consumer delivery (AVC or HEVC) 4K CONSUMER VIDEO WORKFLOW
FROM CLASSIC FILM TITLES REMASTERED IN 4K
AND THE LATEST HITS IN 4K
...TO A DEEP CATALOGUE Annie Fury Ghostbusters 2 My Best Friend's Wedding Bram Stokers Dracula 1776 Air Force One In the Line of Fire No Good Deed Think Like a Man 2 About Last Night Monuments Men A Few Good Men Elysium Smurfs 2 Grown Ups 2 After Earth Funny Girl Guns of Navarone Hancock Hard Times Julie & Julia Looper Angels & Demons Men In Black 2 & 3 Moneyball Philadelphia Premium Rush Spider-Man The Holiday The Last Detail The Way We Were Think Like A Man Lawrence Of Arabia Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion The Da Vinci Code Glory The Tourist The Ugly Truth Alamo Bay It Happened One Night Cowboy Godzilla Evil Dead (2013) The Patriot Jerry Maguire On the Waterfront Body Double Pineapple Express Talladega Nights The Vow Hitch Mask of Zorro Bad Teacher Battle: Los Angeles Bridge on the River Kwai Karate Kid Salt Taxi Driver That’s My Boy The Amazing Spider-man The Other Guys Total Recall Groundhog Day
4K TV INVENTORY
MANY MORE TV TITLES COMING IN 4K THIS YEAR Pilots including Outlander, Marry Me, Battle Creek and Your Family or Mine.