OptiPin Touch-Free Optical Pin Transport
  OptiPin is a new film guidance and image stabilization option for Spirit 4K/2K/HD telecines and
  scanners, which are part of the DFT DataCine product family.

Optical Touch-Free Film Scanning
The OptiPin (Optical Pin Registration) solution addresses the different type of film transport between capstan-driven and pin registered film scanning systems. A capstan-driven film transport provides real-time and gentle film handling and can accommodate shrunken film or damaged perforations. Pin-registered film transports are slower and place stress on the film by forcing pins into the perforations.
The new OptiPin solution merges the advantages of both types of transport methods resulting in stability that is in the range of frame-by-frame pin-registered transport with real-time, continuous motion “touch-free” capstan methods. “Touch-free” handling means that no mechanical registration pins touch your film, making the OptiPin option an ideal solution for any kind of film
stocks.

Image Stability
The OptiPin system scans the perforations and uses a special film guidance to make it less sensitive to film edge imperfections. From the perforation images motion vectors are generated to electronically stabilize the image. The motion vectors are passed through the Spirit's spatial image processor, which performs vertical and horizontal image positioning at an accuracy of 1/64 of an image pixel.
The resulting image stability is in the range of pinregistered transports with the benefits of capstan driven transports, such as significantly faster speeds and gentle film handling.

Key Features
• New film guidance and image stabilization system for Spirit 4K/2K/HD
• High quality, real-time optical pin registration and touch-free capstan-driven film transport
• Advanced Film Guidance (AFG) for dramatically reduced influence of film edge imperfections on image stability
• High-speed infrared camera registers physical position of perfs
• Motion vectors in combination with the Spirit spatial processor electronically stabilize image
• Positioning accuracy of the Spirit spatial image processor is 1/64 of an image pixel
• Scanning speeds from 2.00 fps to 30.00 fps without restrictions
• Film formats: 35mm - 2perf / 3perf / 4perf / 6perf / 8perf and 16mm
• Film stocks: OCN, IMED and PRINT
• Perforation types: N-type / BH, P-type / KS, DH, 16mm
• Data output of Spirit 4K/2K/HD supported
• TV outputs of SDC/SFS 41xx/21xx/HD100 supported
• Ideal for highly sensitive archive film, soft and fragile film, new film