Disney Pixar's 'Inside Out' is screened at IBC in a special version with a wide color gamut

Christie's 6p laser projection will make it possible for the first time to attend a film screening in SDR (standard dynamic range) and WCG (wide color gamut).

Next Monday, September 14 (6:30 p.m.), the IBC Big Screen Experience will once again offer a world premiere. In this case, those attending the RAI Center auditorium at IBC will be able to watch, for the first time, a film in SDR (standard dynamic range) and WCG (wide color gamut). The film chosen this time is Inside Out, from director Pete Docter (Monsters Inc y Up).

Pixar's fifteenth film, which in Spain has been titled the other way round and in Latin America Intensely, is, in the words of Daily Telegraph critic Robbie Collin, “the best thing the animation studio has done to date.”

Inside Out by Disney Pixar is the first film released in very select theaters in HDR (high dynamic range) and WCG (next to Rec.2020) images. This same year at IBC and before professionals in the sector, Pixar premieres a version of Inside Out also with WCG but in SDR images.

Julian Pinn, producer of the IBC Big Screen Experience, highlights that “it will be the first time we see a film in WCG without HDR.” For his part, Don Shaw, of Christie, adds that “it is 6p laser projection that makes this innovation possible, thanks to the wavelengths of light (that is, the colors) that we have selected for our laser systems. Specifically, by choosing monochrome primaries in the Rec.2020 color space range, while still being the only 6P laser manufacturer that meets the strict DCI guidelines in imaging both eyes, we have created the closest projection system to Rec.2020 from among all the image display technologies existing on the market.”

Pinn adds, emphasizing the interest that the presentation will undoubtedly have, also for broadcast professionals, since “the film's WCG is close to Rec 2020 in what constitutes the new standardized color spectrum for UHDTV (ultra high definition). This exercise in generating SDR WCG material is therefore of great interest to evaluate the potential of new content flows between cinema and UHDTV formats.”

Los espectadores podrán asimismo escuchar la presentación de Dominic Glynn, un alto científico de Pixar; de Rick Sayre, director técnico de Supervisión de Pixar, y de Jeroen Schulte, investigador de alto nivel de Industrial Light & Magic.

Pinn admits that he is “excited to screen the special Rec.2020 version of Disney Pixar's Inside Out that Christie's 6P laser projection system has made possible, and to hear firsthand from the filmmakers behind the first two films.” films created in HDR for cinema.”

The presentation will be an immersive experience: in addition to Christie's 6P laser, it features sound from Dolby Atmos, the next generation of Christie's immersive audio system. Dolby Laboratories, which will use a 40+ QSC speaker system installed specifically in the RAI Auditorium.

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