The digital cinema transition is a once-in-a-lifetime event offering amazing opportunities and challenges. If done well, the motion picture experiences of billions of people may be enhanced but great care must be taken to preserve film's 100 year legacy and the perogatives of present and future movie-makers.

The changes in movie production are no less profound and happening at an even faster rate. We are quickly approaching the point where all movies will be done with Digital Intermediate, and we are just starting to see the availability of digital cinema cameras that can truly be integrated with 35mm film or be used in their own manners to produce satisfying results.

The organization, evaluation, or deployment of a digital cinema system is a combination of computer architecture and a collection of cinema-specific issues of both a technical and business nature and requires specialized expertise and relationships.

We have that expertise and those relationships. We understand the many technical, business, and creative issues and are involved day-to-day in the evolution and creation of digital cinema and standards in service to the creative community and other digital cinema constituencies.

Our work includes:

• Officer of various of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) DC28 Digital Cinema committees including: Secretary of the Key Management (security) ad hoc group ('04-present); "designated hitter" fill-in Secretary, DC28.0 Technology Committee; Secretary, DC28.8 Digital Cinema Projection working group ('03-reorg); and Co-Chair of the DC28 Test Materials ad hoc group ('02-'03). Active participant in most DC28 working groups ('01-present).
• Work to develop plans and find support among interested parties to shoot and create test materials and conduct relevant digital cinema testing ('01-present).
• Active participant in design and creation of American Society of Cinematographers – Digital Cinema Initiatives Standard Evaluation Material (ASC-DCI StEM) - the industry refernce digital cinema test film. Screen credits – Test Design and Methodology, Scenario (co).
• Secretary, ASC Technology Committee (11/02–present). Active participant in Digital Intermediate (DI), Advanced Imaging, Digital Projection/Dailies, Camera, and Metadata subcommittees.
• Participation in creation of the US delegation position for ITU-R (International Telecommunications Union - Radio Communications) TG-6/9 on large screen digital imaging, including origination and drafting of several documents and assiting in forming international creative community support for positions ('02-'03).
• Independent development of strawman in-theater architectures and digital cinema business models, starting in late 2001.
• Invited applicant for DCI (Newco) CEO and CTO positions. (Not selected.)
• Consulting Technical Officer, market analysis, and industry relations for a digital and electronic cinema systems integrator and transport, security supplier. Co-author and architect for one of three bids/proposals for DCI 4K and 2K proof-of-concept systems. (Client name withheld - NDA)
• Internet music and video distribution - business and technical analysis, industry liaison, acquisitions for a $1.2B/year company considering launch of a new business unit (2001).
• Co-designer for the first moderately priced, professional digital audio workstation. Architectural issues very similar to digital cinema servers and post-production systems (1985).
• An early proposal for a dubbing stage automation system (Universal, 1981).
• Co-project manager for design of the first general purpose programmable notebook computer (1980).