There are many tangential groups who take an get behind the lens to make a movie, and push it through to the lens at the cinema. Each group has its specialty journals and web sites, but there is a blank spot for people who want to get the highlights of a segment that is out of their daily purview.

Thus, Industry Online.

Further, we will focus more on tech news and white papers than on commercial press releases and sales press releases. We won't have advertising, but we will allow vendors to post special sales when that directory and page is set up.

The idea for this tool was formed when Marvin Hall gave a seminal SMPTE presentation at NAB 2007 which spoke to the issues that Modern Video/Film had to go through on each piece that they take in, massage and kick out. Clearly, among the pages of standards and constant deadlines, among the headlong-rush of technology in every particular sub-category, there seems to be a need for cross communication. 

Since we are all forced to be computer experts and help protect copyright interests, we'll also attempt to keep an eye out for important security information.

And, of course, training—the field is not only fast moving, but we are requiring IT and digital expertise in places where mechanical skill was more important. The long hours of creating standards, and the benefits derived, will be for nought if they and best practices aren't passed along.

So, we thank you for this opportunity. Your editor began in the pro-audio world in the 70's. Since then he has sold, installed and trained people on entertainment technology equipment in film and TV studios around the world. He remembers how complicated and expensive motion tracking and 16 gig RAIDs were in the 90's. In 2002 he was part of the installation groups who installed the first hundred digital cinema systems for the Star Wars II release. Since then, hundreds of HD-SDI cables and projectionist training hours later, he presents this journal.  

If you see something interesting, pass it along. If you want to cut out a space to broadcast a message, please feel free to use this forum. Also, we take advice well. Please make any comments, requests or complaints to:

Charles ‘C J’ Flynn

OpsCenter Technologies, Inc.  |  Cheyenne, WY
Internet Marine, SARL    |    Sophia Antipolis, FR

cjflynn@opscentertech.com 

This news magazine is part of the OpsCenterTechnologies online publishing empire (sic – in many ways).

DCinemaTools was introduced in June of 2009, but not live until mid-January 2010. AltEnergyTools is also introduced in January of 2010, but won't be live until March. InternetMarine.net will be introduced in February 2010 at the ISE, and go live about that time. DCinemaTraining will go live in April 2010, when full SMPTE compliance is introduced into the cinema systems.