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Products: Cintel

Jan 1, 2005 11:55 AM, By Dan Ochiva

Lower-cost ingest and a modular toolkit

It's been quiet recently, but last fall Cintel made noise when it announced two products that could bolster its chances of winning sales in a tough post market. With its new DataMill film scanner, Cintel seeks to lure more DI work by bringing good technology to a low price point.

Designed to handle formats from Super 8 to 65/70mm, DataMill prices around $500K, which is considered entry-level pricing for top scanning systems. Delivering 2K images at up to 15fps and “true” 4K images at up to 3.7fps, the scanner delivers those high-res images in autocalibrated log or linear files. Realtime, 10-bit HD output is also available.

Cintel adopts a modular approach to image processing with its new ImageMill platform. Grace, a grain reduction tool, is the first application to run on it. Previously, it was only available within the high-end DSX film scanner. Operating with clean, 14-bit processing power, Grace works at all resolutions, independent of film type, film gauge, or image format. It even works in an all-data environment, which, the company claims, is a first. Features include live wipe control for split-screen comparisons to show the before/after effects of their correction settings, whether in still frame or run. www.cintel.co.uk

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