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| Film conversions provide the means to migrate your 8mm, Super 8mm, and
16mm films onto a digital medium. The service includes cleaning and
lubrication of all film. You will receive a compilation of all your films
onto VHS tape and/or DVD. This service is a great start to reducing the
hours of film into the highlights for inclusion on a Family Tree Video Creation. |
Key Benefits
 | Eliminate boredom of watching hours of film to get to minutes of action |
| Eliminate frustrations with film reels, splices, projector bulbs, etc. |
| Eliminate wear and tear on your film |
| Improve the archival quality of your film |
| Balance of cost, speed (turnaround), and quality |
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Our Film Conversion Process:
- Film is received and catalogued. If you are local to the Dayton, OH
metropolitan area, then we can pick-up and deliver. If you are an out
of town customer, then we will notify you that your shipment has a arrived.
- Your film is inspected, repaired, cleaned, and lubricated. This
process is necessary to preserve your film as well as our equipment.
If desired, we can splice your 3" reels together onto 7" reels for a nominal
additional cost.
- Film is digitized using a specially designed Film Conversion Solution to
convert your movies frame-by-frame onto RAID 0 hard disks on one of our
computers. Quality is maintained by not using VHS videotape as a
intermediate media. We create a 720x480 pixel AVI file using a
professional 3CCD camera connected via the Firewire interface. We do an
"Interactive Digitize" - an operator watches all of the movies as they are
converted and makes appropriate adjustments to exposure to provide a quality
film transfer. They also take notes to help create descriptions of the
movies and/or confirm the descriptions written on your reels.
- The AVI files are encoded to MPEG-2 files to create movies compatible
with DVD Authoring.
- The MPEG-2 files are added to a DVD Menu. Each MPEG-2 file is a
chapter on the disc identified sequentially Chapter 1, 2, 3 etc.
Typically we put six chapters per menu page. We can customize the menu to
add Thumbnail Titles, Number of Chapters per page, Backgrounds, etc.
- Output the video to DVD-video format and record to DVD-R media
(and VHS videotape if desired).
- Package the DVD-R in a DVD box with a front cover that depicts the Title,
Length, and selected frames from the movies. A printed table of
contents can be created for an additional cost.
- Return ship and/or deliver the finished production and your film.
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Click Here (or double click on a clip below) to See Samples of Our
Film Conversion Work
Super 8mm Film - Lippizan Stallions
(Windows Media Video)
Regular 8mm Film - Niagara
Falls
(Windows Media Video)
16mm Film - 1938 World Series
(MPEG-2 video)
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| Optional Items: If desired, we can load your movies into
our non-linear editing (NLE) solution to: |
| Add title frames to the beginning of
each digitized reel. We
create these
titles basedupon the cataloging
performed in step 1.
Your input is
gathered to make corrections,
additions, and changes to the
titles. |
| Edit the footage to remove blank
sections (leaders), enhance video
quality, add
special effects,
add
section titles or title overlays |
| Add DVD Chapter Marks at the
beginning
of each reel |
| Add background music |
| Edit to create a short version -
"Highlights" |
| Combine Movies with Photos, Slides,
and other Memories to tell your story! |
| and much more... |
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If you would like us to contact you, please click
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