Arri-news 2011

ARRI has released a secondary warm air drying system for the ARRISCAN, designed to be used alongside the 16 mm and 35 mm Wet Gates for archive and restoration workflows. It can be retrofitted to existing Wet Gates and will go out as standard with new deliveries. The ARRISCAN was the first high resolution scanner to offer a wet gate system. It uses a significantly less toxic fluid than the industry standard Tetrachlorethylene to clean away dust and fill in scratches. Institutions that have invested in ARRISCAN Wet Gates include the British, Polish, Lithuanian, Austrian, Chinese and Brazilian national film archives. As film emerges from the Wet Gate it passes through a gen- tle stream of compressed air. For delicate materials that have to be scanned slowly, this is sufficient to dry the film before it spools onto the take-up reel. However, many archives are now using the ARRISCAN Wet Gates for less vulnerable material that can be scanned more quickly. In these situations, the secondary drying system speeds up wet scanning to almost the same frame rate as dry scanning. FASTER WET SCANS The ARRI Wet Gates dry film with warm air rather than drying blades, preventing any damage ARRI NEWS 11