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CinCraft

Shortcut to Realism.

Immerse yourself in CinCraft, the ZEISS ecosystem for the digital application of lens effects. CinCraft provides cutting-edge technology to help you simplify your workflows. This is just the beginning.

Streamline your workflows. Turn on the true lens look.

Introducing CinCraft
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CinCraft Scenario

Anywhere anytime camera tracking

Meet the only real-time camera tracking system that works indoors and outdoors, on film sets, with green and blue screens and in LED volumes. That uses natural markers, reflective markers, and even digital markers on LED screens. That provides camera tracking data for real-time use and records it for post-production. And that integrates lens characteristics to skip the cumbersome lens calibration process. Meet ZEISS CinCraft Scenario.

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CinCraft Mapper

VFX Workflows reinvented

CinCraft Mapper is a digital service that provides frame-accurate lens distortion and shading data for post-production – fast and easy. All lens data are based on your shot metadata, you don’t have to worry about missing or sloppy lens grids anymore. No matter if you prefer working with a GUI or a command line interface, if you use Linux, Windows, or macOS, CinCraft Mapper is the right choice - available 24/7.

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Virtual Lens Technology

Elevating VFX with physically based lens effects

Our focus lies on reshaping the way visual effects and compositing artists work with lenses. Through a library solution approach, we will provide access to digital lenses, that bring accurate and predictable lens behavior of real lenses to the digital world of 2D compositing, giving artists the possibility to choose from a digital shelf, just like the DP does at a camera rental.

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CinCraft Mapper has reduced time-consuming manual labor and allows us to be more creative in post-production. I'm convinced that the provided precise ST Maps improve post-production efficiency.

Takamitsu Hoshiko Freelance DIT/Colorist