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The Mastering Process
Chris Carey
The Walt Disney Studios
Bob Lambert
The Walt Disney Company
Bill Kinder
Pixar Animation Studios
Glenn Kennel
Texas Instruments
Mastering is central to the Digital Cinema process, the nexus at which color, formatting, audio, subtitling, versioning, and metadata all converge. Mastering is a technically intensive but creatively nuanced art, the stage at which the source materials—film or digital files—are prepared for Digital Cinema delivery. This portion of the process relies substantially on input from the filmmakers to ensure that the digital version represents the original creative vision of the film. Ultimately, mastering determines whether the Digital Cinema material is equally or more appealing than ...
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