2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series by the Digital Cinema Society
2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series by the Digital Cinema Society

Digital Cinema Society Presents: DCS 2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series

2020-04-24
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The DCS (Digital Cinema Society) presents the 2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series, which includes more than 20 educational videos that replace the traditional interviews given at NAB. Explore the topics below.

2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series with Panasonic
2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series with Panasonic

Digital Cinema Society (DCS)

The Digital Cinema Society (DCS) is a nonprofit educational cooperative dedicated to the industry’s informed integration of new technology. The DCS owns a large formation of an international membership nearing 5,000 that counts some of the top filmmaking, technology, and business leaders in the entertainment industry including Academy Award winners, educators, ASC cinematographers, ACE editors, leading technologists, and senior management from manufacturers, studios, exhibitors, and networks. The Society’s purpose is to examine all media, solutions, services, and technologies without favoring any one brand, service, or format over another.

Educational content with added value for industry professionals

We wrote before about the DCS regarding its large-format lens panel, which was pretty fascinating and educating and was held at Cine Gear Expo LA 2019. Based on this panel, we built a chart with selected large-format glass. Read our article to explore more about this specific panel. In recent years, the DCS was focus mainly on lenses and hosted lens specialists from leading companies. Y.M.Cinema Magazine attended those events at Cine Gear 2017 and 2018 which were quite informative.

2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series with Litra
2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series with Litra

It is our goal to continue to inform the community about new products and services much as we would have done with our traditional interviews from the show floor at NAB

James Mathers – Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society

DCS 2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series

Due to the cancellation of the NAB Show 2020, DCS has decided to initiate discussions with industry professionals and educators on a variety of topics related to filmmaking. Those interviews were recorded and published on the DCS website. As stated by DCS: “ It is our goal to continue to inform the community about new products and services much as we would have done with our traditional interviews from the show floor at NAB. In this case, however, we conducted these interviews from our homes. More interviews are being added as they are posted, so check back throughout the month to catch up on the latest cinema product and technology news”. Till now, there are 22 interviews which are conducted by Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society, James Mathers.

2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series with Frame.io
2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series with Frame.io

Here are the highlights of the discussions:

  • Panasonic Lumix camera division: S1H and 5.9K ProRes RAW via Atomos
  • Litra’’s latest lighting products
  • Production and post remote workflows, HDR-enabled by Teradek and SmallHD
  • ETC’s LED fixtures
  • Core SWX batteries and chargers
  • P+S Technic’s new line of anamorphic lenses
  • Dedolight Lightstream reflector system and parallel beam lighting
  • SWIT products: Batteries to LED lights and wireless lens control
  • FILMGEAR latest products
  • AJA’s new products for web broadcasting and HDR
  • Zeiss new line of Supreme Prime Radiance Lenses
  • Fujifilm X-T4 mirrorless camera
  • Rotolight lighting and products
  • Adobe’s new features including the Productions feature of Premiere Pro
  • Quasar Science philosophy and technology
  • Cloud workflows with Frame.io
2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series with P+S Technik
2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series with P+S Technik

The future of the industry’s main events

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our industry (and others) causing cancelations of main events that are crucial for the filmmaking industry’s continuity regarding the development of connections, new technologies, and more. However, NAB has founded the NAB Show Express which replaces the Expo with an online marketplace, resources, educational VODs, and more. As for the Cine Gear, it has been postponed to October this year. Nevertheless, in our opinion, we might be seeing more initiatives like the DCS 2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series come to life and offer high-quality focused and professional online content.

NAB Show Express and Cine Gear 2020
NAB Show Express and Cine Gear 2020

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Explore the interviews on the DCS 2020 Cinema Technology Spotlight Series web-page.

Yossy is a filmmaker who specializes mainly in action sports cinematography. Yossy also lectures about the art of independent filmmaking in leading educational institutes, academic programs, and festivals, and his independent films have garnered international awards and recognition.
Yossy is the founder of Y.M.Cinema Magazine.

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