The creation of theatrical picture and sound masters has become a world of acronyms, bitrates and data files. It can be confusing, and at some point you will feel like a technical dweeb. Don’t become “compressed”, we will help you “extract” the data and create a duplication “master”.
The steps to create a conformed and color-corrected element are explained in the digital workflow chapter. That element is a digital intermediate (DI). Mastering is the process of converting that DI into a package ready for distribution to theaters. The DI contains a large amount of data; to move this data into distribution, the picture data is compressed (made smaller) and encrypted for security. The sound ...
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