I was very excited for this deck presented by Michael Cioni, Panavision’s SVP Innovation, at theLumaForge “Faster Together” of NAB 2018. I thought it would deal with topics like 8K acquisition, editing and delivery. Instead we got a decent speech trying to convince us that 8K is the standard now, that we should embrace it immediately and prepare for 11K – all of this based on “Moore’s Law”, which is taken from the transistors integrated circuit world. Has he convinced me? Read below to find out! First of all, the main slide of the presentation was a bit misleading. The entire presentation was more philosophical rather than practical, yet it was fascinating to listen. I was expecting to hear about editing 8K on an iMac Pro, but instead we saw and heard a lot of 8K marketing material. Secondly, Michael Cioni is a smart and interesting guy, but he is not unbiased as he represents Panavision and its 8K DXL camera, so obviously he is in favor of their 8K format. 8K today, 11K tomorrow Cioni says that the pursuit after higher and higher resolution “never ever going to stop”. “We didn’t want this technology, it’s just a part of an unstoppable revolution.” He bases his hypothesis on Moore’s Law, which attempts to explain the exponential growth expectations in information technology. To make a long story short, remember the days of the transitions from SD to “almost” HD, to Full HD (1080p) and then 4K? Those transitions were not initiated by the needs...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 10 May, 2018