Point.360 IVC Digital Film Center Unveils
Visionary Archive™ Technology at The Reel Thing
August 17, 2010
Source: Point.360
Point.360 IVC/Digital
Film Center, will introduce Visionary™ Archive Technology
- a new technology for archiving of color motion images.
It is a unique process using only a single strip of black-and-white
film as opposed to the traditional YCM 3-strip separations.
“Visionary™ Archive is a patent pending archival
process that has been in development for over a year at Point360
IVC Digital Film Center.
Sean McKee, Director Restoration and New Technology at Point.360
IVC states, “At its heart is a Bayer pattern encoding
technology similar to that used in most digital cinema cameras,
such as ARRI, RED, Phantom, Dalsa, and SI. The Visionary™
system allows for the full color image to be placed on a single
strip of black-and-white 35mm film.”
The detailed alignment and calibration patterns encoded on
the film ensure pixel accurate registration of the restored
color image, rock solid stability, and color reproduction
that matches the original creative intent without additional
color correction. As there is only one strip of black-and-white
film with this process, only one layer of grain is added to
the restored image as opposed to the three layers of grain
in conventional YCM separations.
Scott Call, General Manager of Point360. IVC, adds “Visionary™
Archive shows excellent promise for long term archival storage
offering the best of both digital and analog worlds, using
advanced algorithms for encoding and decoding. You can actually
hold the film up to a light and see the image, not zeros and
ones on film. For future generations, it will be easy to interpret
the encoded image, and we are making available open source
software to fully restore image to its original color and
resolution.”
The first presentation of Visionary Archive™ was at the
Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood during AMIA (Association
of Moving Image Archivists) Reel Thing XXV, August 13, 2010.
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