Liquidation; assets and intellectual property acquired by Blackmagic Design
Rank Cintel Mark 3
Cintel was a British digital cinema company founded in 1927 by John Logie Baird and based in Ware, Hertfordshire. The early company was called Cinema Television Ltd. Cinema Television was sold to J Arthur Rank Organization renamed Rank Cintel in 1958. It specialized in the design and manufacture of professional post-production equipment, for transcribing film into video or data formats. It was formerly part of the Rank Organisation.[1] Along with a line of telecines, Rank Cintel made 3 tube RGB color video projectors in the 1960s.
Their main products were based on either cathode ray tube (CRT) Flying-spot scanner or charge coupled device (CCD) technology and include, like the diTTo, diTTo Evolution & dataMill film scanners, Millennium II, Millennium HD & C-Reality & DSX telecines, imageMill 1 & 2 image processing system. The CRT tubes were made by Rank and Brimar. In September 2002 Cintel purchased ITK - Innovation TK Ltd. ITK held a number of patents for features used in Cintel products and also made the competitive unit the Millennium telecine. ITK founded in 1994, also made upgrade products include the TWiGi system, the SCAN’dAL, and the Y-Front.[2][3][4]
Cintel URSA DiamondCintel C-Reality Film DeckThe parts of a flying spot scanner: (A) Cathode-ray tube (CRT); (B) photon beam; (C) & (D) dichroic mirrors; (E), (F) & (G) red-, green- and blue-sensitive photomultipliers.
Many movies and TV shows for TV were transferred from film to TV on Cintel Telecines. Cintel saw reduced sales with the introduction of Spirit DataCine in 1996. The business was in administration until its announced liquidation. On July 24, 2012 Blackmagic Design acquired the assets of Cintel.[5]
^earlytelevision.org, cathode ray tube Rank Cintel
^shots.net, Cintel snaps up ITK, 18 September 2002
Cintel was a British digital cinema company founded in 1927 by John Logie Baird and based in Ware, Hertfordshire. The early company was called Cinema Television...
the Blackmagic Fusion compositing software. In 2014 the company acquired Cintel, the film scanning and preservation company, which has its roots as the...
groups, including Rank Taylor Hobson who made inspection equipment, Rank Cintel who made telecine (television film scanners) machines, and Gaumont Kalee...
video signal that can then be color graded. Early color correction on Rank Cintel MkIII CRT telecine systems was accomplished by varying the primary gain...
the film editor may use different takes of a particular shot. Film portal Cintel Color grading Color suite Da Vinci Systems Digital film Direct-to-disk recording...
to 6K, S35 down to 16mm) Cintel's C-Reality/DSX and ITK - Millennium/dataMill. Under ownership of Blackmagic Design, the Cintel Scanner was released, with...
Blackmagic RAW (used in Blackmagic cameras) Blackmagic RAW SDK Cintel RAW (used in Cintel Scanner) FFmpeg (decoder only) Apple ProRes RAW intoPIX TICO RAW...
integrates with other hardware produced by Blackmagic Design, such as their Cintel film scanner. In July 2018, Blackmagic Design released an external, portable...
Commodore Video CDXL codec Kodak Image Photo CD Blackmagic Design / Cintel Image Cintel RAW Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / The Learning Company / ZSoft Corporation...
employer in the 1980s; the display technology originated from acquiring Cintel in 1963; the site was a Shorts factory in the war, and built many Short...
Aircraft Establishment (RAE) designed the first equipment and it was built by Cintel with the system first integrated into the Blackburn Buccaneer. Pioneer of...
most popular color corrector for telecines like the Fernseh FL 60 and Rank Cintel Mark 3. The Classic had a customized external control panel with primary...
opened in the old site of TAR and contained Aston caption generators, Rank Cintel Slide Files, Quantel Paintbox and Harry's and other graphic systems. The...
April 2012. Somerville News March 1, 2011 Cintel Productions Commission for Club Dance Club Dance from Cintel Productions and TNN Telly Awards Archives...
recorder Factors causing HDTV Blur. Color grading and editing systems. Cintel telecine equipment. Color suite Dolby For means of putting video on film...
late Steve McQueen. The company was the first in the UK to acquire a Rank-Cintel URSA (replaced with a Thomson Spirit) and a C-Reality Telecine as well as...
Alliance (NGMN), the Centro de Investigación de las Telecomunicaciones (CINTEL) in Colombia, the Cámara de Empresas de Servicios de Telecomunicaciones...
Magnetics Inc. MTM D106/DCS-6 Stepper motor transport. Ranger Tone Rank Cintel FeRRIT Modern microprocessor transport control. MWA Nova GmbH – MWA Albrecht...
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