L'Immagine Ritrovata Uses da Vinci Revival™ to Restore Invaluable Film Heritage

April 8, 2008


Source: da vinci

da Vinci Systems today announced that L'Immagine Ritrovata, a specialized film restoration lab and post-production facility, part of the Cineteca di Bologna in Italy, is using the company's Revival™ image restoration system to repair, preserve, and conserve significant films from Italian and international film archives. Staff at L'Immagine Ritrovata work closely with the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and all of its members to restore films, including silent classics to 21st-century features and short-form programs.

"Revival has the best reputation in the industry, but we still did intensive research in the selection process. Ultimately, our decision was made because Revival is the only solution that meets the wide-ranging needs of a lab like ours, specializing in restoring and conserving cinematic heritage," said Davide Pozzi, director of L'Immagine Ritrovata. "Since we expanded our work to include digital workflow in 2006, Revival truly has been a gem, helping us immensely to improve the quality of what we do."

L'Immagine Ritrovata's technicians use Revival to work in multiple resolutions and formats, both SD and HD as well as 2K, which will be increasingly important for upcoming projects later this year. The colorists use Revival's high-speed processing algorithms for fast, automated removal of scratches, dirt particles, and other defects, as well as image stabilization and deFlicker. With Revival, it may be possible to resolve 75 to 90 percent of issues using the automatic mode. Next, Revival's interactive scratch removal and splice repair functions are used to perform frame-by-frame fixes. The L'Immagine Ritrovata lab has a reputation for painstaking dedication; the company once spent 200 hours restoring a three-minute piece of film.

The facility's staff has also found Revival to be especially useful in its work on films from the Silent era, which are often badly damaged by time. In this case, analog restoration techniques need to be completed digitally by the Revival. As digital techniques become more sophisticated, the expectations of the film archives contracting with L'Immagine Ritrovata have risen, making customer satisfaction an ongoing and growing challenge.

L'Immagine Ritrovata plans to add another da Vinci Revival suite to its digital operation later this year.

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