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Fraunhofer Digital Cinema
Partner for Innovation
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Overview - Workflows and new standards for
Digital Cinema

• Specifications
• DCI Specification V1.0, July 2005
• FFA Specifications (Germany), March 2007
• Standardisation
• ISO SC29 WG1 (JPEG2000)
• SMPTE DC28
• Interoperability and Test procedures
• DCI Compliance Test procedures
• ISO SC29 J2K Codestream Interoperability Test
• EDCF System Interoperability Test
• ISA project (CST, France)
• Nordic project (NTNU, Norway),
• Blue Fraunhofer involved

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Specification Projects for Digital Cinema

• DCI Specifications V1.0
• Created by major Hollywood studios
• Published July 2005, continued work on errata and
  updates according to SMPTE standards
• FFA Recommendations and Guidelines
• Recommendations for digital cinema workflows in
  Germany and guidelines for digital cinema
  equip-ment in German theatres (and, additionally,
  not contrary to DCI specifications!)
• Produced by FFA and Fraunhofer IIS
• Will be published March 2007

Digital Cinema Initiative, LLC
Filmförderanstalt German Federal Film Board
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FFA Project for Digital Cinema

• Who can create Digital Cinema Packages DCPs in
  Germany?
• In which way works the distribution in Germany?
• Who has access to server keys? Is there a central
  database? Who creates the KDMs?
• What other content should be played by projection
  systems? In which way is advertising integrated?
• Output documents
• Creation of a checklist for Cinema equipment
• Generation of a guideline for digital cinema
  workflows
• Parallel effort of FFA, distributors and theatre
  owners
• to define business models for Germany

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Workflows
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DCP Digital Cinema Package KDM Key
Delivery Message
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Approved Database
Approval
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Tools and Standards
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ISO SC29WG1 (JPEG) - ISO15444-1 AMD1
JPEG2000/Digital Cinema Profiles SMPTE DC28 432
Suite D-Cinema Source Processing 1 Color
Processing 2 Audio LFE Characteristics 428
Suite D-Cinema Distribution Master 1 Image
Characteristics 2 Audio Characteristics 3 Audio
Channel Mapping 4 Mastering Constraints 5 TIFF
File Format 6 Audio Metadata Format 7
Subtitling 429 Suite D-Cinema Packaging 1
Packaging Guideline 2 Operational Constraints 3
Sound and Picture Track File 4 JPEG2000
Application 5 Subtitle Track File 6 Track File
Esssence Encryption 7 Composition Playlist 8
Packing List 9 Asset Mapping 10 Audio Metadata
Mapping 11 Auxiliary Sound for CPL
Publish 2006 Publish 2007
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SMPTE DC28 430 Suite D-Cinema Operations 1 Key
Delivery Message 2 Digital Certificates 3
Extra-Theater Messaging 4 Log Records Format 5
Log Records Security 6 Auditorium Security
Messages 431 Suite D-Cinema Quality 1 Screen
Luminance, Chroma, Uniformity 2 Reference
Projector 3 Projection Image Measurements Other
documents 433 XML Data Types 427 1.5 Gb/s Link
Encryption
Publish 2006 Publish 2007
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Test procedures and Interoperability for Digital
Cinema

• 1. DCI Compliance Test Procedures
• Based on DCI Specification V1.0
• Produced by DCI and Fraunhofer IIS
• Objective Development of Compliance Test
  Procedures to check the compliance of distributed
  content data and cinema equipment against the DCI
  specifications
• Schedule (March 2006 - October 2006)
• Phase 1 (4 Months) Development of test
  procedures
• Phase 2 (3 Months) Verification and check of
  test procedures with real systems

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Project DCI / Fraunhofer Compliance Test
Procedures
InternalTest Documents
Test DocumentsV1.0 ready
Publication in parts
Phase 1Definition of test items and test
procedures
Phase 2Verification of test procedures in real
life
Training Program by Fraunhofer for test
institutions
Review and approval
March 2006
Nov. 2006
2007
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Test procedures and Interoperability for Digital
Cinema

• 2. ISO JPEG2000 Interoperability Test
• Based on ISO 15444-1 AMD1
• Processed by Dcinema adhoc group within ISO
  (Fraunhofer chairs this group)
• Objective Tests JPEG2000 code streams for
  validityand interoperability
• Schedule (September 2006 - April 2007)
• Collection of content
• Encoding by industrial partners
• Verification by Fraunhofer
• Decoding by industrial partners

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Test procedures and Interoperability for Digital
Cinema

• 3. EDCF System Interoperability Test
• Processed by Interoperability adhoc group within
  EDCF (common effort of NORDIC project, CST,
  Fraunhofer and industrial partners)
• Objective Tests system interoperability
• Schedule (December 2006 )

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Examples of Fraunhofer developments for tests
1. Output-Plugin for Postproduction-Software -
XYZ Coding and J2K Compression 2. DCP and KDM
Generation Tools 3. DCP Analysing Tool for
Verification of DCPs
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References

• DCI System Specification V1.0, July 2005, Digital
  Cinema Initiative LLC
• SMPTE DC28 Standards, IBC2006, Sept. 2006, Wendy
  Aylsworth, Warner Bros.
• JPEG Digital Cinema Interoperability Project
  Call for participation, WG1N3970, ISO SC29 WG1
• Digital Cinema Interoperability Test Plan,
  WG1N3909, ISO SC29 WG1