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NAB - Adobe Moves for Open Digital Cinema File Format
by , 11:35 AM EDT, April 14th, 2008
LAS VEGAS - Adobe is spearheading a move for an industry-wide open digital cinema file format called CinemaDNG. The company announced the news on Monday at NAB in Las Vegas and hopes the proposed standard will help streamline digital workflows and make archiving and exchanging files easier.
Adobe will use its DNG, or Digital Negative Specification, file format as the foundation for CinemaDNG. DNG is a file format commonly used by digital photographers to archive images that were shot in Raw format.
Several camera manufacturers are already on board with CinemaDNG including Panavision, Silicon Imaging, Dalsa Weisscam and ARRI. Application developers, like CineForm and The Foundry, are working to help flesh out the file specification, too.
Should CinemaDNG prove to be popular, it could change how companies across the entertainment industry manage and maintain their digital video files. It may also make it easier for post production companies to collaborate with other companies.
Adobe will publish the CinemaDNG specification for any company to use once the format has been finalized.
Observer Comments
come up with an all new, proprietary standard for video, instead of using an already-standardized, non-proprietary, public, well known and implemented standard for video. Hell, why not just pick h.264 [or a specific subset of it] for camera's and get camera manufacturers to use that format...
h.264 is a terrible example. They are looking for a _RAW_ format, like RAW on a digital still camera, but for motion cameras. And instead of Panasonic having one RAW format, Sony another, and RED yet another format they are pushing to have one format. I think the problem is there is no standardized, non-proprietary lossless standard in place.
Perhaps we should go with sequential TIFF files? Or maybe we should let them come up with cinimaDNG.
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