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Process for broadcasting content stored on film stock
Telecine, or TK, is the process of transferring film into video and is performed in a color suite. The term is also used to refer to the equipment used in this post-production process. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TelecineA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Monarchy for todayThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Part I: Standardized Gray-Scale Characteristic for Vidicon TelecineCited 7 times
- Go sideways: 24pA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Three-two pull downA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The process of transferring motion picture film into electronic form.
Noun A machine used to carry out this process.
Verb To transfer (motion picture film) into electronic form.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Part I: Standardized Gray-Scale Characteristic for Vidicon Telecine
A Method of Producing Telecine Test Materials of Specified Density
An Engineering Approach to Color Telecine
Optimum Telecine Transfer Characteristics
Color Telecine Alignment Slides
The Kodak Cross-Step Gray-Scale Slide for Telecine
An Experimental Telecine Using a Line-Array CCD Sensor
New Tools for Improved Telecine Quality
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Monarchy for todayTelecine. · 1979
- 📕A digital telecine processing channelA. Oliphant · 1978
- 📕Further developments of CCD line array telecineI. Childs · 1985
- 📕Colour operation of a solid state sensor telecineI. Childs · 1980
- 📕A curious history of British food. · 1978
- 📕InterfaceSmee Advertising. · 1984
- 📕Look at LovellLovell Construction. · 1984
- 📕Taming the ThamesCostain Film Unit. · 1980
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