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Celco ships Cinesafe 4K Digital Archive Recorder (27/2/2008)

CELCO announced today that the CineSafe 4K Digital Archive Recorder, which was announced at IBC 2007, is now shipping. The new CineSafe 4K has been specifically designed to output color separations on to black and white film stocks at the highest speed and resolution.

When stored properly, black and white film will last in excess of 500 years, making it the perfect medium for deep archive image storage. With the increasing amount of digital image data and higher resolution image-capture systems, there is an immediate need for an insurance policy for digital imagery. Current digital storage methodologies have numerous drawbacks, such as obsolescence, limited lifespan, and constant migration.

The CineSafe 4K is the perfect solution for digital image data archiving with its ability to image to fine grain black and white color separation, intermediate and high contrast stocks. It can image a high resolution 4K frame in 2 seconds, which is twice the speed of laser recorders.

The system is powered by CELCO’s new Linux host computer and film recorder driver software, making it easy to integrate into production workflows. The CineSafe 4K also has CELCO’s FilmOut Pro Advanced Film Recording Software. FilmOut Pro is an intuitive Graphical User Interface that controls the film recorder and includes imaging tools such as sharpening, degrain, image formatting, resizing and color management functions. A unique feature is the interactive A/B image comparison slider that allows the user to view images before and after different image processing tools have been applied.

FilmOut Pro also includes FinalView, a viewing tool that displays the final image and its exact position on film.

John Constantine, Director of Marketing, comments, “Imagine being a studio and losing some of your most precious image data because of difficulties encountered with digital storage mediums. The new CineSafe 4K will give studios the ability to make safe archives of their valuable image assets at the fastest speed and highest resolution. The black and white color separation images that the Cinesafe 4K provides will give them a 500 year insurance policy that is resolution independent and nearly impervious to the ravages of time and machine obsolescence.”

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