As restoration is only one aspect in the typical workflow of the movie industry, we have established international cooperations in order to provide complete solutions. Our partners and friends are from very different segments, researchers as well as technology- and hardware providers are among them.
ARRI
The digital restoration workflow reaches a new level of consistency. The ARRISCAN with wet-gate and/or Infrared light is able to detect and correct a good deal of defects that are on the film. Full restoration and finishing tasks are then naturally done with a DIAMANT-Film Restoration System attached to the ARRISCAN. The Restoration operator can use the defect mask from ARRISCAN to focus defect correction on those parts of the movie that suffer serious problems. After restoration the corrected and repaired movie can be put back on film by means of an ARRILASER. This new and efficient workflow is first implemented at CINECO in Amsterdam. Other user following is the Austrian Filmarchive in Vienna, the Yugoslavian Archive in Beograd and the Filmoteka Naradowa in Warzaw. about ARRI
DFT - Digital Film Technology, Germany
DFT is the maker of the well known Scanity film scanner. The DIAMANT-Film Restoration software fully supports the IR dirt masks produced by the Scanity. Omnimago in Germany was one of the first Scanity users in Europe using Scanity and our DIAMANT-Film Restoratin Software. about DFT
Filmoteca de Catalunya
Filmoteca Catalunya in Barcelona has been using DIAMANT-Film Suite with several seats for many years. The archive is also assisting in the training of other international FIAF archives to share its deep knowledge on proper and ethical digital film treatment.
From this context, the chief digital film restoration operator Xavier Camara Caamaño of Filmoteca Catalunya will be spending 3 days at FINAS film archive in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to provide a high level training on digital film restoration workflows.
INA
The well known institution of the french INA is offering a 2 phase film restoration class, with a focus of DIAMANT-Film. The class is addressing operators in the domain of restoration, who want to deepen their expertise on a profound and professional level.
See DIAMANT-Film Restoration training for more information.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Graz, Austria
JOANNEUM RESEARCH is since 1994 active in the area of digital film restoration. Since then several projects like LIMELIGHT, FRAME and DIAMANT have been used to build up leading know-how in this field. Core parts and especially restoration algorithms used within DIAMANT-Film Restoration are from JOANNEUM RESEARCH.
about Joanneum Research
MWA Nova GmbH
MWA NOVA and HS-ART Digital are offering a cooperative and integrated workflow from the film scanning to restoration, grading and finishing.
This workflow is implemented by MWA NOVAs high end "flashscan" and "flashtransfer" product lines, our DIAMANT-Film Restoration Suite and the "Final DCP" product line offered by the partnering company "Innovative Pixel".
The complete solution is available at MWA NOVA GmbH. Please contact them or us for more details.
TU Graz
The technical university in Graz is also an important research partner for us. We have made several projects together like VdqA and HDVIP. The research from the TU Graz, especially the ICG was very beneficial for our DIAMANT-Film Restoration System.
Assimilate
Almost any Scratch operator is occasionally confronted with slightly damaged images (camera hairs, dirt, etc.), that need to be corrected before finishing the movie project. The integration of DustBuster+ straight into the CONSTRUCT and PLAYER of Scratch, provides an easy and comfortable solution for the operator. Quick-fixes can be applied immediately, without complicated import/export and file access.
