Euronews program “Futuris: From Scene to Screen” presents the IPRacine European project held over the last three years.

XDC was one of the partners of this fruitful project for the cinema industry. The Futuris program presents some of the products and new technologies developed within this European project, among others the CineStore SoloG3 playback server from XDC

Digital Cinema was still an emerging market when IP-RACINE project started in 2004, less than 150 cinema screens in the world were digital (about 0.1% of the total) and about 100-150 films in total had ever been ‘finished’ through the Digital Intermediate process with a mere handful of live-action features had been originated digitally. At the end of 2007 when the project ends, there was strong evidence that Digital Cinema offers a real market for products and services.

In this change, IP-RACINE aimed to secure the future of the European Cinema industry from film to digital, improving the competitiveness of European Digital Cinema (DC) by developing workflow techniques for integrating the digital process ‘from scene to screen’, and advancing the state of the art of digital cameras, virtual cinema studio production, cinema objects description, processing and postproduction, digital playout and display of sound and image for better user experience.