Egypt’s Cinema Treasure Restored to Its Former Beauty, Restored with Cintel Scanner G3 HDR+

By Admin On May 1, 2024

Blackmagic Design announced that Egyptian Media Production City (EMPC) used Cintel Scanner G3 HDR+ to scan Egypt’s rich film archive in real time and DaVinci Resolve Studio to restore and convert to digital.

Cairo-based EMPC media facility, which has original prints of hundreds of motion pictures and photo collections made between 1940 and the late 1990s, has reached an agreement with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. In 2018, the Motion Picture Restoration Center (CRC) was established to document and digitize this collection.

CRC General Manager Nada Hossam Eldeen Farahat began his speech as follows: “Cinema is a huge part of Egyptian culture, but time is running out to preserve this heritage. For decades the main recording media was celluloid, and now many of these original negatives are in poor condition and decay.”

In 2019, the restoration and digitization work of the news archive shot by Egyptian Film Magazine between 1952 and 2015 began.

Eldeen Farahat added: “We always used Cintel for Telecine because we knew it gave the best image quality, but we had an old machine that only had standard resolution. “And we couldn’t rely on one machine for all of our images, photos and documents.”

Working with Systems Design, which installed the system, CRC used Cintel Scanner G3 HDR+ to support the next phase of this ambitious project, which will restore over 300 iconic Egyptian films.

Farahat continued: “After a film reel is physically examined and repaired by hand, that negative film is cleaned to remove any dirt, fingerprints or dust. “These reels are then scanned in real time at 4K resolution using a Cintel scanner and recorded in DaVinci Resolve Studio, where we do color, restoration and mastering.”

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In addition, Cintel Audio and KeyKode Reader records the audio information on the negative film in high quality at the same time as image scanning. Even if the scanner’s speed changes, the sensitive wheel sensor automatically corrects wobble and vibrations. Additionally, KeyKode numbers that identify individual film frames significantly speed up post-production workflows.

Farahat stated the following on this subject: “Working with DaVinci Resolve Studio makes Cintel Scanner G3 superior to other scanners. Automatically saving information from Cintel to DaVinci saves us significant time. “Other systems do not offer this level of compliance from scanning to final delivery.”

Also DaVinci Resolve Studio; It also has automatic dirt removal, dust removal, flicker removal, patch repair with smart fill technology, and advanced temporal and spatial noise reduction tools.

The 300 iconic dramas, comedies and musical films currently being restored were made between 1941 and 1995. Farahat concluded his words as follows: “It will take three years to restore all of them to their former beauty, then some of them will be selected and shown at film festivals, and some films will be presented to a wider audience for cinema lovers to enjoy watching them once again.”