What is a .CIN file?
CIN (Cineon) was Kodak’s film-scan frame format, the ancestor of DPX.
- Did you know
- Cineon was Kodak’s pioneering format for scanning film into the computer.
- Cineon was created by Kodak in the early 1990s as one of the first digital film systems, scanning frames into the computer.
- Its 10-bit logarithmic encoding of film “printing density” was carried over into the SMPTE-standardised DPX format that succeeded it.
- What Analyser reads
- Inspect streaming manifests and video containers: HLS/DASH/Smooth Streaming/HDS manifests and playlists; pro/broadcast MXF/GXF/LXF/DV; ASF/.dvr-ms and RealMedia; DivX/F4V/Insta360/GoPro proxies/GIFV; raw elementary streams (IVF, Y4M, MPEG-1/2, H.264/H.265 SPS, AV1 OBU); MPEG program/transport and PVR/DVB recordings; Windows Recorded TV, Ogg Media, NUT; DPX/Cineon/Dahua/.yuv identified.
- Depth of analysis
- .CIN is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .CIN file
- Drag a .CIN file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.