Adobe Starts Initiative to Develop Open Format for Digital Cinema Files

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.