Dark Energy

Particle Physics Unleashed

Dark Energy is the motion picture industry’s go-to toolset for Grain/Noise Reduction and Texture Management. And, as a premiere spatial processing platform, Dark Energy produces impeccable De-Interlaced Video, and cranks out theatrical-quality Up-Res Conversions.

Its uncanny ability to remove only the noise, but not the detail, means that Dark Energy is also a great solution for high-end Pre-Encode Optimizations. With Dark Energy, you get better looking streams with fewer bits.

Restore. Optimize. Texture.

Dark Energy Professional has been described as incredible, amazing and unequalled for image texture management by the most discerning eyes in the world.

Starting with an intuitive, real‐time feedback GUI, users can immediately see the results of their adjustments without waiting for a render, without “hoping” the adjustments will be what they want.

While other platforms struggle with slow processing, Dark Energy Professional renders as fast as your workflow demands. Powered by NVIDIA Maximus Technology, Dark Energy Professional provides users 20-24 FPS of rendering for each Tesla GPU installed in your workstation.

Dark Energy Accelerator is Cinnafilm’s batch/automated rendering tool that allows users to:

Background render already completed projects while starting work on a new project
Batch process complex folder structures based on pre‐defined templates
Combining complete control of image texture and incredible rendering speeds, Dark Energy Professional is the ultimate software for demanding users.

Features

High Quality Image Scaling (DE handles any size)
Automatic Dustbusting, 80% hands-free without artifacts
Best-in class denoise/degrain without image degradation
Texture simulation to emulate any film stock or texture – No more film outs with the best looking film grain on market
Homogenize the texture from many sources (film, various cameras, etc)
Fully scalable render speeds – no limits
The fastest, most precise image texture management software in the world for cinematic releases and archive restoration.

Performance

Dark Energy Professional  has always been the fastest, most accurate degrain technology in the universe. With the 5.0 release and processing on Nvidia’s latest Tesla GPUs, we have expanded that lead to unbelievable lengths.

Performance for Dark Energy is heavily dependent on two items: GPU speed and storage speed. Cinnafilm only supports GPUs that are Kepler Class or newer and we prefer our clients use GPUs which are Tesla Compute Cluster (TCC) capable. Storage must be fast enough to simultaneously read/write uncompressed image files at the chosen bit-depth and frame rate. Typically for UHD/4K, that means over 1.2 gigabytes of simultaneous read/write throughput to the drive.

A typical Dark Energy Professional workflow is as follows:

Denoise the image, sharpen the image, resize/scale the image and add image texture (film grain). With this typical workflow, performance of Dark Energy Professional V is as follows:

Render Speed – FPS, Single GPU

Resolution	Kepler K40	Maxwell M60	Pascal GP100
2k, 10bit DPX	12	18	24
4k, 10bit DPX	6	8	16

Versions

Dark Energy is available as standalone software and a plugin for some of today’s most popular transcoding platforms. For more information on plug-in specific features, visit our Dark Energy Plug-In for Transcoders page.