KODAK PARTNERS WITH DA VINCI ON IMAGING TOOLS
As part of the agreement, da Vinci will integrate Kodak's proprietary Motion Compensated Grain Management into its Resolve R-series color corrector. This will allow grain levels to be manipulated in scanned film. Kodak's Adaptive Sharpening Technology, which preserves the detail of the image throughout processing, will also be incorporated into the Resolve R-series.
"da Vinci's Resolve R-series color corrector provides an ideal platform in which to implement Kodak's high-tech software algorithms," notes C.J. Johnson, product manager for Kodak's Entertainment Imaging Division. "We've enhanced our algorithms to take advantage of the latest in GPU processing capability. da Vinci has the market reach to allow our mutual customers to benefit from the ability to efficiently enhance film images, including 16 mm and archival footage."
The R-series integrates the power of Nvidia GPUs to process images in realtime. With Kodak’s Motion Compensated Grain Management harnessing the CUDA computational processing power of the R-series, colorists will be able to reduce grain and sharpen images to extract all the richness and information of film after being scanned to digital images.
The Kodak algorithms will be integrated into Resolve software in the third quarter of 2009. Newer versions of the Resolve R-series Color Corrector already in use may be upgraded in upcoming software version releases.