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Understanding Digital Cinema
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Understanding Digital Cinema

by Charles S. Swartz
October 2004
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 12m
English
Routledge
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4CHAPTER

The Mastering Process

Chris Carey

The Walt Disney Studios

Bob Lambert

The Walt Disney Company

Bill Kinder

Pixar Animation Studios

Glenn Kennel

Texas Instruments

Mastering is central to the Digital Cinema process, the nexus at which color, formatting, audio, subtitling, versioning, and metadata all converge. Mastering is a technically intensive but creatively nuanced art, the stage at which the source materials—film or digital files—are prepared for Digital Cinema delivery. This portion of the process relies substantially on input from the filmmakers to ensure that the digital version represents the original creative vision of the film. Ultimately, mastering determines whether the Digital Cinema material is equally or more appealing than ...

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