NAB 2008 (C3-348): HS-ART releases new version of their Digital Film Restoration Software DIAMANT

The DIAMANT suite includes tools for various types of film defects such as dust, dirt, blotches, flicker, scratches, grain/noise, warped images, stabilization issues and many more. The automatic and semi-automatic software tools allow effective corrections in almost all the cases.

A powerful solution for manual retouching called M.I.R. (moving image retoucher) is included in the DIAMANT suite, but can also be ordered as stand-alone product.

The software has been developed to work in a professional environment and does support a large amount of image file formats like DPX, CIN, TIFF, TGA, JPG, QuickTime® and many more. DIAMANT is available on Windows and runs on almost any modern standard PC hardware.

The archival restoration workflow could be improved due the cooperation of HS-ART with CTM Debrie and ARRI. The collaboration between their products and services boosts the efficiency of the overall restoration process.

In the latest version of the DIAMANT suite many features have been improved or added.

Such as:

• SpliceBump (new)
• ColorRegistration (new)
• SelectiveColor (new)
• Advanced support of alpha masks (new)
• DFlicker (improved)
• Dust (improved)
• DeadPixel (improved)
• DWarp (improved)
• M.I.R. paint tool (improved)
• RestorationManager (improved)
• MovieManager (improved)
• JobManager (improved)
• Overall performance (improved)

For further information please see http://www.hs-art.com/html/products/diamant.html.

About HS-ART Digital Service GmbH: HS-ART is a technology company based in Graz, Austria. HS-ART provides software solutions for the professional market in the fields of digital film restoration and media monitoring. The main product is the DIAMANT digital film restoration software which one of the leading solution in the fields and used by over 100 customer’s world wide. Please see www.hs-art.com for further details.