DVD Highlights Digital Cinema Initiative Clipster Fulfilment

DVS Digital Video Systems are set to demonstrate how the high-performance Clipster DI workstation fulfils the requirements of the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI).
The DI system Clipster performs essential steps in the creation chain of a digital cinema movie: from the digital cinema distribution master (DCDM), over the digital cinema package (DCP) to encoding the data with the Key Delivery Message (KDM).
In order to create a DCDM post production houses require DI systems that finalise with a high performance.
Ideally the data consist of 16 bit TIFF X’Y’Z’. Clipster, DVS’ DI workstation, performs this process. Clipster will also carry out the whole DCI mastering, then compressing the data in JPEG2000 in real-time at this stage.
Together with audio tracks, subtitles and other metadata these files are finalised as the DCP by bundling all source data as MXF files. Clipster thus allows the delivery of the data package in the correct container format via satellite, messenger or server to its final destination. To guarantee a secure encoding is crucial during this process. Clipster not only compresses and encodes the material but finally creates the KDM in order to configure the DCP securely and transportable.
Again, the DVS flagship demonstrates how it accelerates and optimizes DI workflows. The powerful real-time workstation offers multi-resolution, zoom and pan, conforming, colour correction, cropping, and versioning capabilities - all up to 4K. According to DVS, Clipster is the world’s only system that works with uncompressed image sequences such as DPX or TIFF with a colour depth of 16-bit in real-time, without having to pre-render.
Clipster users now profit from the new feature set that allows them to enter the Digital Cinema business at an early stage and to deliver content, as specified by the DCI.
Bernhard Reitz, Head of Product Management DVS: “It has always been of utmost importance to DVS to seize or to develop technological developments early. With Clipster, our DI workstation, we see this fact fulfilled in detail. Thanks to Clipster our customers are able to meet the demands of Digital Cinema and to thus shape the future’s cinema."
(SP)