Blackmagic Design Cintel Scanner G3 HDR+

The Blackmagic Design Cintel Scanner G3 HDR+ is a comprehensive solution for real-time film scanning and grading. It features precision mechanical film handling components, a high-intensity diffuse light source, optics, and a built-in camera for exceptional quality. With gentle precision capstans, the scanner includes a 35mm film gate, film spools, a set of four cleaning rollers, desk mount feet, and DaVinci Resolve Studio software. It transfers film directly to DaVinci Resolve, enabling you to seamlessly edit film rolls, grade and reframe scans, apply noise reduction, and extract audio. This integration with DaVinci Resolve offers enhanced creative control beyond what a hardware-only solution can provide.

The Cintel Scanner G3 HDR+ advances the art of film scanning with a completely redesigned light source that allows real-time HDR film scanning in Ultra HD 4K. This model also retains the renowned features of the earlier Cintel scanners, such as digital servos, gentle capstan drives, advanced colour science, 35mm and 16mm film support, and an elegant design that can be used desktop or wall-mounted. The Cintel Scanner is perfect for unlocking vast archive film libraries for conversion into new UHD masters so they can be uploaded for streaming and online distribution.

Studios have generated millions of hours of film over the last 100 years, however, it's stored in film vaults around the world. Converting older film libraries is a fast and inexpensive way to deliver Ultra HD content to consumers. The Cintel Scanner will scan negative and positive 35mm film into high-quality UHD.

The scanner's high-intensity light source and advanced colour science allow for sharp, high-quality images from scanned film even when running at real-time speed. The RGB LED grid array illumination source is designed to work with an extremely sensitive imaging sensor and ensures your priceless film is never exposed to unnecessary thermal stress and colour fading effects of traditional scanner lamps. There's even a film inspection mode that allows you to see how the original film actually looks compared to the scans achieved with the Cintel's light source.

The G3 HDR+ features a 35mm skid plate and supports an optional 16mm gate for HDR scanning, allowing you to create high dynamic range digital masters with better colour, more texture, and more detail. This makes it possible to meet the growing demand for 4K HDR content on streaming services. The combination of the scanner and DaVinci Resolve Studio gives you everything you need to scan, colour correct, restore and master your film library for high dynamic range Ultra HD distribution. In addition to advanced colour correction, Resolve also offers Revival tools for automatic dirt removal, dust busting, deflickering, spot patch repair with smart fill technology, and advanced temporal and spatial noise reduction.

Supported Film Stocks

Print, negative, interpositive, internegative, mono, and colour

Film Gauges

35mm (2, 3, 4 perforations), Super 35 (2, 3, 4 perforations), 16mm, and Super 16

Native Resolution

4096 x 3072

Effective Resolutions

3840 x 2880 (Super 35), 3390 x 2864 (35mm), 3390 x 2465 (anamorphic 35), 1903 x 1143 (Super 16), 1581 x 1154 (16mm)

HDMI Formats (Auto Selected to Match Monitor Resolution)

3840 x 2160 UHD 4K, 1920 x 1080 HD

Dynamic Range

Normal scans: 12 stops; HDR scans: up to 3.5 additional stops

Audio

Extraction from scanned image

Transport Type

Rubber capstan

Dirt and Scratch Reduction

Diffuse light source, cleaning rollers

Continuous Motion - Run Speed

1 - 30 fps

Continuous Motion - Shuttle

1 - 100 fps (35mm), 1 - 200 fps (16mm)

Acceleration

5 - 30 fps/s

Film Shrinkage Tolerance

Up to 2% guaranteed; more may be possible with user care

Capacity

2000' (35mm)

Connections

1 x HDMI 1.4 10-bit 4:2:2 video output for preview purposes

Computer Interface

Thunderbolt 3 for capture of image and audio, software updates, and USB-C charging with 15W at 5V; PCI Express 4 lane generation 2

XLR3 Bi-Phase

4.5 VDC coupled

Timecode Output

1.5 VDC coupled with support for 24, 25, and 30 fps

Analog Audio Inputs

Two channels of professional balanced analog audio with a sample rate converter via XLR connectors with 10dBV levels

AES/EBU Audio Input

One channel with a sample rate converter on the XLR connector

Options Interface

XLR6

Supported Operating Systems

Mac 11.1, Mac 12.0 or later, Windows 10, Windows 11, and Linux; the scanner requires desktop video installed on the host computer to operate; scanning can be controlled though DaVinci Resolve or through 3rd-party software using the Cintel SDK