Scan sound as picture frames
- Preserve film sound as picture frames
- Restore sound at any future time
- Be future proof using the original scan of the optical soundtrack
- Avoid damaging film reels
- Get the soundtrack in a single scanning process
- Extract the sound from any damaged or unplayable material
- Resotore the picture of the sondtrack
- Remove clicks and crackles from the sound picture
- Automate and customize settings from edit to edit offline
- Time saving and cost effective restoration in unparalleled quality
Restore soundtracks in unparalleled quality
- Do less in the digital sound domain and keep more information
- Use our specially developed AI trained restoration technology
- Hear the silence of your soundtrack
- Feel the quality of the actor’s voice without compromise
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Scan sound as picture frames
- no compromise in dynamic range or resolution (ND 4,5)
- Image of the soundtrack is scanned at high resolution,
frame by frame - Image is digitally processed offline to sound
Preserve film sound as picture frames
- Preserve the optically cleaned picture of the sound
- The uncompromized original authentic source
- The exact digital footprint
- Can be read out again at any future time
- Be future proof
CFS – CleanFilmSound
Nowadays, in the world, the sounds that have survived on 35mm film are played back on special projectors and digitized. Dirt, scratches, damage, lifelessness, intermittent brightness and other defects on 35mm filmstrip make the sound of the films noisy and of poor quality. With the methods currently on the market, the sound extracted from 35mm film rolls is crackling, poor quality, and the sound from film rolls that cannot be played back in real time is simply not audible.
Astrophysicist László Dobos and sound engineer Dániel Bőhm have developed a unique software to first remove extraneous elements from the image of the optical sound and then create digital sound from the cleaned image of the optical sound. At present, we know of no other company in the world that undertakes film sound restoration using this method. The method consists of optically extracting the out-of-place elements from the sound of the film, the extracted sound being identical to the sound of the film as originally recorded on the film soundtrack when the film was made. The other current methods read the defects of the film into the sound of the film, which can only be retouched later in the restoration process using lossy methods, so the traditional restoration solutions also damage the original sound of the film and information is lost.
Our method, the CleanFilmSound process, cleans the sound of the film in a lossless way using an optical method that is unique in the world, all without the need for real-time physical playback of nitro films and other compromised copies from frame to frame-scanned raw material.
The Team
Daniel Böhm – As a sound restorer, I have worked for the Hungarian National Film Archive, the Czech Film Archive and the Hong Kong Film Archive for the past 10 years. I have been involved in the complete sound restoration and remastering of over 130 feature films. Several of my restored films have been successfully screened at Cannes Classics, Berlinale Classics and Venice Classics film festivals.
Laszlo Dobos is an astrophysicist and data scientiest working on large-scale astronomical sky surveys.