Filming for the cinema results in enormous quantities of data; a 90 minutes film produces more than 3 terabytes, a volume which is time-consuming to edit and distribute. The aim of the EU project WorldScreen is to optimize the processes in digital movie making with the help of scalable data compression.
Filming for the cinema results in enormous quantities of data; a 90 minutes film produces more than 3 terabytes, a volume which is time-consuming to edit and distribute. The aim of the EU project WorldScreen is to optimize the processes in digital movie making with the help of scalable data compression. The first concepts for integrating the image compression standard JPEG2000 into storage and postproduction systems will be presented at the IBC. Researchers at the Fraunhofer IIS and the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz-Institut HHI, are cooperating closely with nine European companies on this project.Projection with “Immersive” Feeling!
Researchers from the Fraunhofer HHI will be presenting a multi-projector system for dome or panorama projection and even for ultra-wide panoramas with extreme high resolutions. The spectators profit from this sort of projection that evokes an immersive feeling as if being present at the film plot or the shown event. Dr Ralf Schäfer describes the technical challenges for the multi projector system, “The devices will have to be precisely synchronized, so that the audience doesn’t realize that more than one projector is being used. In addition there must be no visible transitions on the screen.” |
