Blog: Views From the Light House

It’s undeniable that HDR is an important industry trend, with mega-players like Netflix and Amazon requiring HDR masters in their delivery specs.

Find out where you can see Light Iron and Panavision representatives speaking, and where to get hands-on demos of the Millennium DXL.

From the 2016 PGA “Produced By” conference in Los Angeles, Light Iron’s Michael Cioni and Katie Fellion led a dynamic presentation and panel discussion about delivering content that’s not just backwards-compatible, but forwards-compatible as well.

The following is a collection of stories highlighting the special relationship between our colorists and some of the talented creatives we have been fortunate to work with.

Light Iron recently hosted an event for Manhattan Edit Workshop and The Blue Collar Post Collective (BCPC) in our New York facility featuring renowned Film Editor Susan E. Morse. Susan, who prefers to go by Sandy, is known for collaborating with Ralph Rosenblum, Woody...

Back in June of 2015 I was able to do some preliminary tests with the first 8K Weapon camera.

On Sunday, August 29, 2015, Michael Cioni (President), Laura Pursley (Director of Marketing) and I attended the International Cinematographers Guilds (ICG) Emerging Cinematographers Awards.

LG has done a successful test run of OTA UHD, using HEVC, in the US. It’s a proof of concept test for the ATSC 3.0 standard, so we still won’t actually see it in practice for a while, but we’re getting closer.

Many people have heard of a “Dead” pixel in the digital camera industry. But I bet that the term “Lit” pixel is far less understood. Joel Ordesky’s article sheds some light on where they come from and how to repair them.

Pretty substantial development. In North America, 96% of screens are digital (that’s roughly 1,600 film projectors remaining). This shift has been happening over the span of the last few years and on a global scale. This marks a truly fast track, dramatic shift and...

Apple issued an update to their Pro Codecs today which looks like it includes a new version of Pro Res (4444 XQ). I imagine we will start seeing this codec as an acquisition format in next-gen cameras and as a delivery requirement.

Really interesting statistics related to 4K “readiness” around the globe, which is based on bit rate streams of sustained data (i.e., 15Mbps or higher).

Very exciting! Just need the 4K content. And 2018 isn’t that far away.

It has been really interesting to follow these articles over the last 5 years. I remember when the % of digital projectors in the US was 50%… then 75%… now 92%. Light Iron has been an active participant in this transition.

This is a powerful statement: “The lesson is that companies are free to ignore digitization; they are also free to go bankrupt. Adapt and surf the rising digital tide, or drown.”

We predicted this happening years ago, and it’s finally coming to fruition. The most interesting idea behind an electronic system is the potential for the indie filmmakers wanting to get their materials into a theater.

Really good read and another testament to innovation overtaking the incumbents.

In the past month, I produced a case study involving Canon’s C500, while at the same time appearing in an IBC case study about the first studio release shot on the Alexa Plus 4:3.

Netflix is taking a bolder stance as “the leader” in web-based distribution, vs. being a company among leaders.

Really interesting to me is how the first words in this article are “looking to boost its reach beyond legacy TV.” Just another example of a network understanding it must evolve to stay in the game.