Modern VideoFilm choose da Vinci 2K Plus for 'Alien' remastering

Da Vinci Systems have announced that Modern VideoFilm are using da Vinci's 2K Plus colour enhancement systems as an integral part of their digital intermediate (DI) workflow on feature film projects, including the digital remastering and restoration of the 1979 classic 'Alien'.
The 2K Plus interfaces directly with the Quantel iQ servers in Modern VideoFilm's Glendale digital intermediate facility, enabling the staff to maintain a cohesive DI workflow that allows them to seamlessly perform colour correction, restoration, and other postproduction tasks through a single user interface.
"The 2K Plus features a very crisp, clean secondary process, and its power tiers offer far more tools for isolation," said Modern VideoFilm Colourist Skip Kimball. "When you give directors multiple layers of isolation, they have the ability to give their images more impact, more beauty. Creative people love this capability, which is why DI work is catching on with such fervour."
Unlike the 20th anniversary DVD release of Alien, the new theatrical release was cut from the original negative and the interpositive, which Modern VideoFilm scanned into a Phantom data engine using a Philips Spirit DataCine. Once image data was pulled into the iQ systems, the restoration began with removal of dirt, scratches, and bumps, as well as modernising many of the composites and artifacts inherent in the 1970s technology used to create the film.
Finally, Kimball sat with Director Ridley Scott to colour correct the high-resolution images using the 2K Plus. Once colour timing was performed with the 2K Plus, an Arri Laser film recorder was used to record digital images back onto film.
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