ARRI Archive Workshop brings industry together

(July 5th 2010) – ARRI has hosted its first major workshop on the rapidly growing market for archive and restoration technologies. The two-day event at the company’s headquarters in Munich attracted more than 80 attendees from a diverse range of backgrounds and companies, including four national film archives, post houses, broadcasters and manufacturers.

Leading restoration software companies demonstrated their latest products, all of which facilitate digital repairs to damaged film materials. These included Phoenix and DVO from Digital Vision, DaVinci Revival from Blackmagic, Correct from MTI and Diamant from HS-ART. ARRI also presented its new and unique range of ARRISCAN archive tools, as well as the ARRILASER film recorder and RELATIVITY software.

Seminars assessed various archive workflows and technologies, addressing issues such as the 2k versus 4k debate and the challenge of long-term storage. Among the speakers was Mikko Kuutti, who sits on the Technical Commission of FIFA (the International Federation of Film Archives).Case studies included the well-publicised restoration work recently done on Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece, Metropolis.

With so much attention in the industry currently being paid to new digital cameras, the Archive Workshop served as timely reminder that equal efforts must be made towards archiving the digital data being created, as well as preserving the rich cultural heritage that already exists on film and making it accessible in a digital world.

Feedback from the event has been overwhelmingly positive. John Palmer, Digital Film Bureau Manger at Ascent 142 in London, commented: “I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop, which had the right mix of informality and friendly professionalism. The ARRI demos and the talks were particularly useful and interesting; I learnt a lot and came away with a lot to think about. We’re certainly interested in returning for future events.”

Martin Bennett, Digital Vision’s VP Worldwide Marketing said: “Digital Vision is very keen to promote and assist its partners and ARRI’s restoration workshop provided a unique platform for attendees to draw on the vast experience available.”

For more information / documentation on this workshop and similar events planned for the future, please contact smaier@arri.de

About ARRI:
Located in Munich, Germany, Arnold and Richter Cine Technik (A&R) was founded in 1917 and is the largest manufacturer of professional motion picture equipment in the world. In 2001, ARRI was converted into a public limited company. The company is involved in all aspects of the film industry: engineering, design, manufacturing, production, visual effects, post-production, equipment rental and laboratory services (film and sound). Manufactured products and technologies include professional digital acquisition with the ALEXA camera, the ARRIFLEX D-21, in addition to camera systems for 16mm, 35mm, 65mm film, location and studio lighting fixtures, digital imaging systems like the ARRISCAN, ARRILASER, ARRICUBE, and ARRI Relativity™. These products and services are offered through a network of subsidiary companies, agents and representatives worldwide. For locations and more information, visit www.arri.com

About Digital Vision:

Digital Vision provides innovative image restoration, enhancement, color correction and data conforming systems that major movie studios, television networks and postproduction facilities use to master and deliver feature films, TV programs and commercials.  The company’s Nucoda product line provides a strong suite of products for tapeless and non linear grading for HD broadcast and 2k/4k digital intermediate productions.  The company’s award-winning products are a standard of the media and entertainment industry and are deployed at top facilities and broadcasters around the world. Digital Vision AB was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with three wholly owned subsidiaries, Digital Vision (US) in Los Angeles, California; Digital Vision UK in London, England; and Digital Vision in Hong Kong, China.  The company maintains its global presence through a network of qualified distributors.  Digital Vision is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange.  For further information, go to www.digitalvision.tv

About Blackmagic Design:

Blackmagic Design creates the world’s most advanced video editing products, color correctors, video converters, routers, waveform monitors and film restoration software for the feature film, postproduction and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink capture cards launched a revolution in the television industry, while the company’s converters, Videohub routers and UltraScope waveform monitoring continue to make advanced postproduction tools affordable to thousands of creative professionals. Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Emmy™ award winning color correction products have dominated the television industry since 1984 and continue groundbreaking innovations including stereoscopic 3D and 4K workflows. Founded by world-leading postproduction editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. For more information, visit www.blackmagic-design.com

About MTI Film, LLC:

Since 1997, MTI Film (http://www.mtifilm.com) has offered award winning software applications to the postproduction industry for film and video image correction and dailies facilitation. MTI's applications support collaborative digital workflows which scale to significantly increase throughput. This NAB, MTI Film unveils revolutionary advances to their products: Correct V8, Control Dailies 6, Control Dailies DA, Control Color and Convey 2. Dreamwalks GmbH is the exclusive reseller in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and provides also offers Editing/Finishing and VFX solutions such as Flame, Smoke, Scratch and Nuke including support and Training. For more information, please visit  www.mtifilm.com

About HS-ART:

Founded in 1998 as a spin-off from the public research organisation JOANNEUM RESEARCH in Austria, HS-ART has established itself as a successful, global-playing SME in the area of digital film restoration. HS-ART’s first line business is the digital film restoration software DIAMANT, designed for postproduction companies, film labs and archives. DIAMANT was first introduced to the market in 2002; since then, it has been taken up by 130 customers and is now used by about 1,000 operators worldwide. DIAMANT has been developed in close co-operation with archival institutions and content owners. It has been proven on large-scale restorations in various resolutions, ranging from SD to 4k. For more information, visit www.hs-art.com

Robert Coulin, Dreamwalks shows details of MTI correct v8