By Elina Shatkin, April 13, 2005
ASSIMILATE, Inc. announced support of its real-time SCRATCH Data-Centric Workflow Solution that's used in film post-production for IMAGICA's Cinecure film restoration system. IMAGICA's Cinecure system enables creative professionals to clean images within a film by retouching dirt, blemishes and chemical stains. Digital artists can restore film to original or enhanced quality.
SCRATCH is a real-time, data-centric workflow solution for visually complex, full-resolution, high-quality, long and short-form film post-production. Running on high-performance commodity workstations, SCRATCH empowers creative professionals with a powerful software foundation whose scalable, open-architecture, modular feature sets, and image processing tools combine to deliver a streamlined end-to-end DI pipeline solution with optimal price/performance
. SCRATCH core features include simultaneous, real-time, multi-resolution review/playback, assemble/edit, conform, primary color grading, scratch audio, visual effects (significantly enhanced with over 150 optional plug-ins), and final mastering to film.
Cinecure is a resolution-independent digital-film restoration tool that uses intra-frame and inter-frame reference. All processing is performed in memory and rendering is executed only in the part to be corrected. The automatic position adjustment and color tone adjustment functions greatly assist the pin-operation, maintaining practical processing performance by avoiding the slow, "never-can-be-perfect" automatic computation.
Cinecure restoration system is available from IMAGICA and is priced at $12,800.00 U.S.
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