/ 11.15.2012 01:47PM
Olympusat Expands Film Restoration Endeavor
360 restores classic Spanish-language films in HD
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BEACH, FLA. – Olympusat is expanding its film restoration service through its
production facility, Olympusat 360. The company said 360 has already “restored a robust library of classic
Spanish-language films. The company is now making these restoration
capabilities to new companies wanting to restore films, TV shows, commercials,
documentaries, etc.
The process involves
“hundreds of man-hours per film to restore,” Olympusat said. “The restoration
starts with the cleaning and scanning of the negatives, capturing all the
images to 2k or 4k, which is much higher resolution than HD with our optical
scanners. The captured movies are the restored frame by frame by highly trained
and skilled editors, aided by highly sophisticated software. After the movies
are restored, which can take weeks even with a team working 24 hours a day, the
movie is sent to color-correction, where the colors are made to look as good or
better than the original movie. Finally, it is sent to our audio correction
suites, where the audio in synchronized and corrected. The audio correction
process itself takes many weeks per film…”