“Cineon” was a computer system, augmented by film scanning and recording hardware, designed by Kodak, for digital intermediate film production. It included a scanner, tape drives, workstations with digital compositing software, and a film recorder. The system was first released in 1993 and was abandoned by 1997. As an end-to-end solution for 2K and 4K digital film production, the system was well ahead of its time. The major components of the syst...
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“Cineon” was a computer system, augmented by film scanning and recording hardware, designed by Kodak, for digital intermediate film production. It included a scanner, tape drives, workstations with digital compositing software, and a film recorder. The system was first released in 1993 and was abandoned by 1997. As an end-to-end solution for 2K and 4K digital film production, the system was well ahead of its time. The major components of the system (scanner, workstation software, and recorder) have all received AMPAS Scientific and Technical Awards.
Kodak no longer sells the system or its components; however, the “Cineon” (.cin) file format that Kodak defined still is commonly used in the film visual effects world. (The Digital Picture Exchange (DPX) file format is also used in those applications; DPX files commonly store pixel data encoded according to Cineon Printing Density.)
The Cineon file format was designed specifically to represent scanned film images, and it has some...
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