Editing Digital cinema (section)

===Initiatives===
On January 19, 2000, the [[Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers]], in the United States, initiated the first standards group dedicated towards developing digital cinema.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.mkpe.com/publications/d-cinema/misc/dc28_takes_off.php |title=SMPTE's Digital Cinema Committee Takes Off Running |publisher=MKPE consulting |year=2000 |access-date=2011-10-25}}</ref> By December 2000, there were 15 digital cinema screens in the United States and Canada, 11 in Western Europe, 4 in Asia, and 1 in South America.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europa-distribution.org/files/bruxelles/digital_cinema_figures.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107012002/http://www.europa-distribution.org/files/bruxelles/digital_cinema_figures.pdf |archive-date=2009-01-07 |url-status=live |title=Digital Cinema – Key Figures & Facts |date=2006-07-23}}</ref> [[Digital Cinema Initiatives]] (DCI) was formed in March 2002 as a joint project of many motion picture studios ([[Walt Disney Studios (division)|Disney]], [[20th Century Fox|Fox]], [[MGM]], [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]], [[Sony Pictures]], [[Universal Pictures|Universal]] and [[Warner Bros.]]) to develop a system specification for digital cinema.<ref name="spec"/> The same month it was reported that the number of cinemas equipped with digital projectors had increased to about 50 in the US and 30 more in the rest of the world.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/2002/03/18/0318digitaldistribution.html Attack Of The Digital Movie]</ref>

In April 2004, in cooperation with the [[American Society of Cinematographers]], DCI created standard evaluation material (the ASC/DCI StEM material) for testing of 2K and 4K playback and compression technologies. DCI selected [[JPEG 2000]] as the basis for the compression in the system the same year.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1666288/trivia |title = ASC-DCI StEM (2004)|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref> Initial tests with JPEG 2000 produced [[bit rate]]s of around 75{{ndash}}125&nbsp;[[Mbit/s]] for [[2K resolution]] and 100{{ndash}}200&nbsp;Mbit/s for [[4K resolution]].<ref name="Swartz"/>