What is a guard bit? And how do I know what is set in my encoded JPEG 200 image. There are two freely available tools that will produce you the Guard Bit Information of a JPEG 2000 image. OpenJPEG Distributed under the open source project OpenJPEG. The included CLI utili opj_dump will produce a …

Despite the fact that the industry adopted an internationally ratified SMPTE DCP standard nearly a decade ago, there remains widespread confusion and disagreement about what constitutes a universally accepted digital cinema package. If that sentence makes no sense to you, you’re not alone. For …

Jack Watts doesn’t shy away from having strong opinions about Digital Cinema Packages, demanding clients and film industry politics. IBC365 got his thoughts on these topics and much more. At IBC 2018 I was pressed on the purposed behind smptedcp.com and challenges facing the distribution format …