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DIAMANT
is a software solution for automatic, semi-automatic and manual
film restoration for the professional market. Since more than
6 years DIAMANT is being used successfully in film archives,
post-houses, studios and laboratories. |
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DIAMANT you can handle almost any kind of film defects such
as
— Single frame defects
–Dust, dirt
–Blotches
–Mould
–Bacteria
–Hairs
–Scratches
— Instabilities or shaking
— Local and global colour and brightness instability
like flicker
— Film grain, noise
— Vertical line scratches
— Destroyed images or parts of images
–Bad splices
–Tears
–Burned frames
— Warped images
— Dead pixels
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| DIAMANT
Suite |
The
DIAMANT suite consists of several software tools to deal with
restoration jobs. They allow the organization of restoration
projects, defining of the restoration jobs, real-time viewing
and generation of restoration reports. The restoration modules
(plug-ins) are dealing with the different restoration issues
and are for automatic and semi-automatic restoration. A manual
image sequence painting tool M.I.R. (moving image retoucher)
is integrated for manual retouching.
Technical characteristics:
— Resolution independent (SD, HD, 2k, 4K or any format
in between)
— 8, 10, 12, or 16 bit colour depth (lin/log)
— Inexpensive hardware
–Off the shelf workstations
with Windows
–Standard disk storage or
SAN support
— Render farm support |
| Restoration
Modules |
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Dust
Tool for detection and correction of spots, stains, hairs, dirt,
etc.. Dust is good for any kind of film defect with a unique
appearance in time (single image defects). |
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DFlicker - Brightness & Colour variation
Flickering are global brightness, contrast and/or colour changes
from one image to the next. DFlicker is able to correct both
brightness and colour flicker on a global as well as on a local
basis. |
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StabAuto
The StabAuto tool is designed for automatic correction of image
stability problems, i.e. vertical, horizontal or rotation movements
or scaling of the complete image from one frame to another.
It respects natural camera movement and determines automatically
the background that should be stabilised. |
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StabPoint
The tool provides image stabilisation based on point tracking.
It is used to correct image jitter in cases where the automatic
stabilisation tools do not give proper results. |
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DWarp
Warped and inhomogenous stressed images are very often a consequence
of shrunken nitrate, improper splices or non-perfect scanning.
Very often such effects become annoying after elimination of
other disturbing defects (e.g.: camera movement). The correction
is based on a reference image, that is used as basis for detection
of the DWarp-Function. |
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InterpolateImage
The interpolate tools are used to replace one or more images
or parts of images where no image information is left (e.g.,
burned-up frames, huge tears etc.). The selected area is replaced
with information generated from the adjacent images by motion
compensated interpolation. |
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Linescratch
Vertical lines are one of the most embarrassing defects in old,
historical films. Repair of such scratches is a very difficult
task, as there is real information missing for the full temporal
duration of the linescratch. Thus content reconstruction is
the key to a high quality restoration. |
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DNoise / DGrain
DNoise is the main tool for de-noise and/or grain-reduction.
It preserves edges and gradients to a very large extend. |
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RGrain
Restoration of heavily affected film might result in a dramatic
loss of original film grain. On the other hand, film reconstruction
is often confronted with a material-mix from different film
sources (different film generations, positives, Dups, Negatives,¡).
This tool is to compensate for those undesirable effects.
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| API
/SDK |
| DIAMANT is well known for its open
API and the possibility for any customer to create plugin-tools
for his own purpose. The new version provides a library for
individual protection of such modules. Thus modules can be individually
protected by using the common DIAMANT dongle. |
| I/O |
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DIAMANT supports almost all relevant
image file formats like DPX, CIN, TIFF, TGA, BMP, JPG and
many more. QuickTime is also supported for I/O and real-time
playback with specific hardware.
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