Blackmagic Design acquires the assets of Cintel International
Through this operation, Blackmagic acquires both the intellectual property and the complete portfolio of Cintel scanning solutions such as DiTTo and DataMill, URSA, C-Reality, DSX, as well as the Millenium range of telecines and ImageMill data management.
After the dissolution of the British Cintel International at the beginning of this year, Blackmagic Design announced this Monday the purchase of the assets of one of the leading companies in the development and manufacture of scanners for cinematographic film.
Through this operation, Blackmagic acquires both the intellectual property and the complete portfolio of Cintel scanning solutions such as DiTTo and DataMill, URSA, C-Reality, DSX, as well as the Millenium range of telecines and ImageMill data management.
Grant Petty, CEO of Blackmagic Design, highlighted that "Cintel solutions are highly trusted in the film scanning business, and the incredible skill and design involved in their development is astonishing. The film market is in the midst of great change. What has not changed is that motion picture film is a very creative way to capture images. This purchase gives Blackmagic Design the ability to combine our vision and experience with Cintel technology to provide the best technology for artists to use film, in ways more efficient and affordable ways to bring it to a digital workflow, and better ways to archive and restore your existing motion picture film archive.
From now on, support for Cintel customers will be carried out through Cine Solutions with offices in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Founded in 1927 by John Logie Baird, it has managed to position itself as a benchmark in the world of post-production, scanning and digital intermediation. With more than 80 years of history, Cintel has been a benchmark in the development of telecine in the middle of the last century, and in the introduction of new 2K and 4K resolutions since 2009 with the DiTTo. At the beginning of this year, Cintel ceased its activity due to
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