1. Sony Pictures Confidential
Creating New 4k Content
Shoot in 4k
Finish in 4k
Obstacles:
Arri Alexa 2k camera is very popular with film makers and TV producers
Significantly more data to store and transfer
High cost of memory cards for Sony F65 4k camera
F65 is not a finished product
Red Epic does not look as good as Alexa or F65
Obstacles:
Not all post houses can view 4k
Not all finishing systems can handle 4k
HD TV workflows are established and time critical – finishing in 4k will be incremental
Effects in 4k
Rendering in 4k will take 4x as long as rendering in 2k
Some effects can take 100 hours per frame to render just in 2k
Can render in 2k, and up scale to 4k
Can render in more than 2k but less than 4k and up scale to 4k
4/11/2019
Sony Pictures Confidential

2. Sony Pictures Confidential
4k Restorations
Can restore anything shot on 35mm or 65/70mm film in 4k
Decreasing number of titles shot on film in last 10 years
All SPE restorations were scanned in 4k but many were finished in 2k
Dirt and scratch fixes done in 2k have to be repeated in 4k
Some studios have restored a number of titles in 4k
Many 4k restorations done at Colorworks or Warner Bros’ MPI facility
Not a large number of titles
4/11/2019
Sony Pictures Confidential