4K in Movies and TV—Where Does it Make Sense?

October 22, 2013, 04:47 AM

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There are “no major barriers” to 4K production using currently available gear, asserted Larry Thorpe, senior fellow at Canon USA, who kicked off a Monday session exploring the potential of 4K for movies ad TV.Steve Weinstein, CTO of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, said the issue surrounding 4K at his company is that “our storage has been blow out.“This makes a distributed workflow much harder to do,” he said. “You end up working on proxys. We are looking at cloud transcoding...