Digital Vision Announces Sixth Generation Grain Reduction and Dust Concealer

Digital Vision, the premier supplier of picture enhancement systems for film and television post-production, announced today a complete re-design of its grain and dust algorithms. This is the sixth generation of image enhancement algorithms from Digital Vision and will revolutionize its DVO Grain and DVO Dust options available in the Enhance and Restore packages respectively.

Using Digital Vision’s 21 years of experience the new tools will be the first ones that are software only and optimised for the latest Intel CPU's and nVidia GPU's. Digital Vision are the only company using CPU and GPU in this combined way and will maximize processing for a faster and higher quality result.

Other new features include:

• New more accurate and faster motion estimator
• Completely re-designed spatial and temporal filters
• Ability to push noise reduction much further before introducing artifacts
• Will reveal more ‘hidden’ detail in the image, especially when grain and detail are of similar size
• Automatic grain analyzer for easy configuration of filter settings
• Ability to handle 16mm, 35mm, CCD camera and Bayer pattern sources even when target is low bit rate HD or SD transmission

Simon Cuff, President and COO, Digital Vision comments; “Digital Vision continues to innovate and invest in creating the best and fastest products for its customers. Our aim with these re-designs is to revolutionize the way that the technology works and therefore improving the workflow and importantly the end image.”

The new grain and dust algorithms will be available in Q3 2009.