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PFClean: The Fastest, Most Intelligent Film and Video Restoration Solution
Your film archive holds immense historical, cultural, and commercial value. However, ageing film stocks, scratches, dust, and colour fading can diminish its potential. PFClean is the industry’s leading solution for film restoration, preservation, and remastering, delivering high-quality results faster and more cost-effectively than ever.
For over two decades, PFClean has been the gold standard in film restoration, setting the benchmark for efficiency, quality, and innovation. Designed from the ground up to revolutionise restoration workflows, PFClean pioneered a nondestructive, metadata-driven approach, empowering artists to restore with precision, confidence, and unprecedented speed. Its intelligent automation and cutting-edge toolset streamline complex restoration tasks, making once-laborious processes effortless and scalable. No other solution matches its blend of power, flexibility, and productivity, which is why PFClean remains the go-to choice for studios, archives, and post-production houses worldwide. If film restoration is an art, PFClean is the master’s brush.
Why Choose PFClean?
When it comes to film and video restoration, speed, flexibility, and automation matter. Unlike traditional layer-based workflows, PFClean’s node-based system allows for flexible, non-destructive editing, ensuring the highest quality results with the ability to refine at any stage. PFClean outperforms competitors by offering:
Advanced Restoration Tools
Automatically detect, analyse, and remove artefacts with precision, ensuring cleaner images across every frame.
Batch Processing
Restore large archives efficiently with automated workflows that reduce manual input while maintaining consistent quality.
4K & 8K Remastering
Work at high scan resolutions, preserving detail and fidelity while preparing your content for modern delivery platforms.
Multi-Format Support
Seamlessly deliver projects for streaming, broadcast, and cinema with flexible exports tailored to professional workflows.
Non-Destructive Editing
Adjust, refine, and reverse restoration steps at any stage, giving you full creative control without risking original media.
Trusted Manual Tools
Use finely tuned, frame-accurate retouching tools that empower artists to perform detailed restoration with total confidence.
Film Restoration
PFClean’s supports all major film formats, from 8mm to IMAX 70mm, preserving the integrity of camera negatives, prints, archival reels, and everything in between. Advanced automation removes dust, scratches, flicker, warping, tears, and colour fading while maintaining the original film’s authenticity.
Key Features:
Enhanced defect removal for faster, more precise automatic and manual restoration.
Intuitive workflow designed for archivists, filmmakers, and post-production teams.
Future-proof archival films for digital distribution and long-term storage.
Video Restoration
Digitally restore and enhance ageing analogue video formats, including 1" reel-to-reel, U-matic, Betacam andVHS. PFClean’s advanced tools correct dropouts, chroma issues, tape glitches, and colour degradation, delivering pristine results while preserving historical accuracy.
Key Features:
Advanced automatic tape defect detection, removal and restoration.
Batch processing for easy handling of large-scale video archives.
Seamless integration with modern post-production workflows and pipelines.
PFClean is built for professional post-production and archival workflows.
Industry-Standard Pipeline
PFClean fully supports OpenColorIO (OCIO), enabling a robust colour management workflow and robust Edit Decision List (EDL) conforming capabilities. This allows users to efficiently restore and conform footage to match an offline edit reference.
Compatible Software:
PFClean is designed to seamlessly integrate into professional post-production and restoration pipelines by generating industry-standard file formats compatible with other leading applications such as DaVinci Resolve, Baselight & Avid Media Composer.
Supported File Formats & platforms
PFClean supports a wide range of industry standard file formats, including OpenEXR, DPX, TIFF, ProRes*, and more, while offering full cross-platform compatibility on Windows, macOS, and Linux Linux**, ensuring seamless integration into any post-production or archive workflow.
*Mac only **Rocky Linux 8/9
FAQ
Who uses PFClean?
National film archives, major studios, broadcasters and global distributors trust PFClean to restore tape and film content.
What types of film damage can PFClean fix?
PFClean removes scratches, dust, flicker, grain, noise, color fading, frame warping, and film tears while preserving authenticity.
What types of tape damage can PFClean fix?
It corrects dropouts, tape noise, chroma issues, banding, scanline errors, and compression artefacts in analogue and digital formats.
Is PFClean suitable for large archives?
Yes. With batch processing, automation, and scalable workflows, PFClean is ideal for large-scale restoration projects.
Can PFClean remaster films for modern displays?
Absolutely. PFClean supports 4K & beyond, high-bit-depth colour processing, and modern encoding formats for seamless remastering.
Does PFClean offer manual restoration tools?
PFClean offers exceptional manual retouching tools for frame-by-frame restoration! While it's a fantastic choice for automated workflows, it also empowers you with deeper manual options for those complex restorations.
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