da Vinci Systems is a manufacturer of high end video equipment and post-production products in Coral Springs, Florida. Coral Springs, officially chartered July 10 1963 is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States approximately northwest of Fort Lauderdale Florida Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the It manufactures Color Correctors for telecines, virtual telecine, digital mastering system and film restoration. Telecine (ˈtɛləˌsɪni/ /ˌtɛləˈsɪni/ ˌtɛləˈsɪnə also /ˌtɛləˈsiːn/ — "tel-e-Sin-ee" "tel-e-Sin-a" as 'cine' is the same root as in 'cinema' A virtual telecine is a piece of Video equipment that can play back data files in real time A digital system uses discrete (discontinuous values usually but not always Symbolized Numerically (hence called "digital" to represent information for Along with Filmlight, da Vinci Systems leads the post-production industry in market share. FilmLight Limited is a Digital cinema technology company started in 2002 by the Scientific and Technical Academy Award -winning former Computer Film Company The control panels are placed in a color suite. Color suite also called a Color bay or a Telecine suite or Color correction bay.
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- Color Correctors: 2k and 2k Plus, High end Color grading and Gamma correction system used to control telecine. Color grading is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture or television image either electronically photo-chemically or digitally Gamma correction, gamma nonlinearity, gamma encoding, or often simply gamma, is the name of a nonlinear operation used to code and decode luminance
- virtual telecine: Splice, interface for the 2k and the 2k Plus. A virtual telecine is a piece of Video equipment that can play back data files in real time
- digital mastering system: Resolve, Color correction, conforming and system. Mostly for digital intermediate use. Digital intermediate (often abbreviated as DI) describes the process of digitizing a Motion picture and manipulating color and other image characteristics to change
- film restoration: Revival, Film restoration to improve film quality of digital files. The film preservation, or film restoration, movement is an ongoing project among film historians archivists Museums and Non-profit organizations to rescue
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History
- The Wiz was the predecessor to the da Vinci Classic color corrector and was built in 1982 by VTA Technologies in Ft. Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate Canal system is a city in Broward County, Florida, It was built on an apple computer, the program was stored in EPROM, the list could be backed up to mini cassettes. An EPROM, or E rasable P rogrammable '''''R'''ead-'''O'''nly '''M'''emory'', is a type of memory chip that retains its The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a Magnetic tape sound VTA Technologies later became da Vinci Systems, Inc in 1984. The Wiz was the first color correction system to have a customized external control panel and was also the first color corrector with internal primary and secondary processing. Prior to that, the primaries in the telecine were used. Telecine (ˈtɛləˌsɪni/ /ˌtɛləˈsɪni/ ˌtɛləˈsɪnə also /ˌtɛləˈsiːn/ — "tel-e-Sin-ee" "tel-e-Sin-a" as 'cine' is the same root as in 'cinema' The Wiz had 10 vector patented secondary color correction. A patent is a set of Exclusive rights granted by a State to an inventor or his assignee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an The first two systems were bought by Editel, Chicago, which at the time used the color corrector on Bosch Fernseh's FDL60 telecine. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Robert Bosch GmbH is a German diversified technology-based corporation which was started in 1886 by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart Germany. The Fernseh AG Television company was registered in Berlin on July 3, 1929 by John Logie
- da Vinci Classic analog system was the most popular color corrector on the Fernseh's FDL 60 and Rank Cintel telecines (Mark 3 and URSA). Analog transmission is a method of conveying voice data image signal or video information using a continuous signal which varies in amplitude phase or some other property in proportion The Fernseh AG Television company was registered in Berlin on July 3, 1929 by John Logie Cintel International is a British company based in Ware, Hertfordshire, which specialises in the design and manufacture of professional equipment for Telecine (ˈtɛləˌsɪni/ /ˌtɛləˈsɪni/ ˌtɛləˈsɪnə also /ˌtɛləˈsiːn/ — "tel-e-Sin-ee" "tel-e-Sin-a" as 'cine' is the same root as in 'cinema' It had customized external control panel with internal primary, secondary processing and an internal NTSC encoder. NTSC ( National Television System Committee) is the Analog television system used in the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico It ran on a 68000 Intel Multi Bus 1 system computer. A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. The program and color correction list were stored on a 20MB MMF hard disk, with backup to a 5. A hard disk drive ( HDD) commonly referred to as a hard drive, hard disk, or fixed disk drive, is a Non-volatile storage device 25" floppy disk. A floppy disk is an increasingly Obsolete data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin flexible ("floppy" Magnetic storage medium encased
- da Vinci Renaissance was the analog system that followed the Classic analog system. Was similar to the above system, but ran on Intel 68020 Multi Bus 1 system with a 3. 5" Floppy. Options like kilo vectors were later available for the analog Renaissance.
- da Vinci Renaissance 888 also call the GUI-Graphical user interface was similar to the above system, but had 888 digital video processing, in place of the analog video processing. A digital system uses discrete (discontinuous values usually but not always Symbolized Numerically (hence called "digital" to represent information for Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images Can operate with 4:2:2, 4:4:4 or 8:4:4 input in NTSC or Pal. Chroma subsampling is the practice of encoding images by implementing less resolution for chroma Information than for luma information Chroma subsampling is the practice of encoding images by implementing less resolution for chroma Information than for luma information NTSC ( National Television System Committee) is the Analog television system used in the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is a colour -encoding system used in Broadcast television systems in large parts of the world
- da Vinci also made the da Vinci Light. This was not marketed, so not many were sold. It is a da Vinci DUI 888 without the digital 888 cards. The telecine interface card controlled the telecine's internal color corrector. This came in two configurations; the first was the DUI with an SGI Indy workstation. Introduced in 1993 the Indy, code named Guinness, was the fruit of SGI 's effort to muscle into the market for desktop publishing low-end CAD, and A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or Engineering workstation, is a high-end Microcomputer The second DUI system used an SGI O2 workstation. The O2 is an entry-level Unix Workstation introduced in 1996 by Silicon Graphics (SGI to replace their earlier Indy series These systems supported da Vinci's new Control Panels.
The newest system supports HDTV and SDTV, the 2K Color Corrector. High-definition television (HDTV is a Digital television Broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (standard-definition Current system uses an IBM PC computer running Red Hat Linux interface software. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology In Computing, Red Hat Inc ( is a company dedicated to Free and open source software, and a major Linux distribution vendor Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks The current system is the 2k Plus an improved 2k Color Corrector. The 2k Plus is used on high-end DataCines and telecines, Like Thomson-Grass Valley's Spirit Datacine and Cintel's C-Reality & ITK Millennium. Thomson SA (,) formerly known as Thomson Multimedia is an international provider of solutions for the creation management delivery and access of video for the Grass Valley, previously known as Grass Valley Group, is a subsidiary company of the French company Thomson. Cintel International is a British company based in Ware, Hertfordshire, which specialises in the design and manufacture of professional equipment for The 2k can operate in with a 4:2:2, 4:4:4 or 8:4:4 input in NTSC or Pal. Chroma subsampling is the practice of encoding images by implementing less resolution for chroma Information than for luma information NTSC ( National Television System Committee) is the Analog television system used in the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is a colour -encoding system used in Broadcast television systems in large parts of the world In HDTV it can operate with 4:2:2, 4:4:4 input. High-definition television (HDTV is a Digital television Broadcasting system with higher resolution than traditional television systems (standard-definition Chroma subsampling is the practice of encoding images by implementing less resolution for chroma Information than for luma information
TLC
The TLC is a edit controller for telecines and VTRs. Linear video editing is the process of selecting arranging and modifying the images and sound recorded on Videotape whether captured by a Video camera, generated Telecine (ˈtɛləˌsɪni/ /ˌtɛləˈsɪni/ ˌtɛləˈsɪnə also /ˌtɛləˈsiːn/ — "tel-e-Sin-ee" "tel-e-Sin-a" as 'cine' is the same root as in 'cinema' VTR redirects here For other meanings see VTR (disambiguation. It give accurate 2/3 editing. TLC 1 was originally made in Moorpark, California, later TLC was acquired by da Vinci and the TLC 2 was released. Moorpark is a city of 37342 people in Southern California. It was founded in 1900 by Robert Poindexter presumably named after the California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The da Vinci DUI 888 had an option to have a TLC built into it. If the TLC is not built in an external A/B switch box is needed to switch control between the TLC and other Color Controllers. Some versions had a separate CPU and Telecine interface rack.
See also
- digital intermediate
- Display resolution
- Film-out
- Film recorder
- post production
- digital film
- Direct to Disk Recording
- TV
- Hard disk recorder
- 3D LUT
- Film restoration
- Color correction
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Digital intermediate (often abbreviated as DI) describes the process of digitizing a Motion picture and manipulating color and other image characteristics to change The display resolution of a Digital television or Computer display typically refers to the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed Film-out is the process in the Computer graphics, Video and Filmmaking disciplines of transferring images or Animation from Videotape A Film Recorder is a Graphical output device for transferring Digital images to Photographic film. See also Filmmaking Post-production occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programs, Videos audio recordings Direct to disk recording refers to methods by which digital audio and video are recorded to portable storage media such as Hard drives and DVDs Direct to disk can Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic A hard disk recorder is a type of recording system that utilizes a high-capacity Hard disk to record Digital audio or Digital video. In the film industry 3D LUT s ( Lookup tables are used to calculate preview colors for a monitor or digital projector of how an image will be reproduced on the final film The film preservation, or film restoration, movement is an ongoing project among film historians archivists Museums and Non-profit organizations to rescue Color correction by using Color gels or filters is a process used in Stage lighting, Photography, Television, CinematographyDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic