Announcement
On 14 April 2008, Adobe issued a press release that said:
"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it plans to lead an initiative to define an industry-wide open file format for digital cinema files to streamline workflows and help ensure easy archiving and exchange. Adobe intends to leverage its successful Digital Negative Specification (DNG) file format as a foundation, and Adobe plans to work with a broad coalition of leading camera manufacturers, including Panavision, Silicon Imaging, Dalsa, Weisscam, and ARRI—along with software vendors, including Iridas and The Foundry, and codec provider CineForm—to define the requirements for an open, publicly documented file format that it plans to call CinemaDNG.
"Adobe is currently working to develop the requirements of the CinemaDNG workflow and intends to subsequently publish a specification for the file format based on collaboration with companies throughout the industry."
For interest, the domain name cinemadng.org was registered on 8 March 2008.
This page
This page will track CinemaDNG to the extent that it is relevant to "still camera DNG". It is unlikely ever to provide as much detail as is provided here for DNG, simply because it is not a topic I am personally interested in (yet!)
One of the companies that Adobe identified (above) is Silicon Imaging. Silicon Imaging already uses the existing DNG as its "stills" format from its SI-1920HDVR digital cine camera.
External links
- Adobe press release: Adobe Starts Initiative to Develop Open Format for Digital Cinema Files
- Adobe Announces CinemaDNG: An Open RAW Format For Video
- Adobe leads high-quality raw video format initiative
- Adobe plans CinemaDNG format for cinema files
- NAB: Adobe plans CinemaDNG standard for cinema files
- Adobe's CinemaDNG Hopes to Solve Video Format Woes