Convert 35mm slides to digital equipment

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#Convert 35mm slides to digital equipment pro
#Convert 35mm slides to digital equipment professional

As a general rule, the more expensive the film scanner, the better quality and higher resolution you will get in the digital format you choose. The frame by frame machines looses a lot more of the quality through the system compared to the 480 line scanner. This explains why a 480 line frame by frame machine (using a modified projector and camcorder) gets so much less of the 8mm filmвЂ™s quality compared to a true 480 line scanner.

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So, even if you have a 1080p scanner you might only be getting an effective scan of 700 or 750 lines because of the loss through the system. There are many variables and many opportunities to loose quality along the chain from the lighting to the pickup device to the lenses and on and on. The answer is that each scanner, no matter how sophisticated, will loose some quality during the scan. WeвЂ™ve talked to several film scanner manufactures and asked this same question.

#Convert 35mm slides to digital equipment archive

So, from our experience a 2K scan is required if you want to archive your 8mm film to a digital format.

#Convert 35mm slides to digital equipment pro

I know there are many people that would argue with us but the fact is that weвЂ™ve done about 50 comparisons between our Pro HD and Pro 2K process and in 49 of those comparisons the Pro 2K creates video from Super 8 film that is about 25-30% sharper. If you want to archive your film to a digital format like DVD, BluRay or an editing format we recommend scanning your 8mm or Super 8 film at 2K resolution. It depends on your goals and also on what format you want to go out to. Many times we are asked вЂњWhat resolution should I convert my 8mm or Super 8 film at?вЂќ ThatвЂ™s a good question. Many of these customers also want their 35mm and 16mm film converted to DVD or BluRay so they can easily watch it and make copies for other family members. For this reason we have many customer order HD/2K AVI or HD/2K ProRes for easier editing.

As mentioned, DPX is not the easiest format to edit. For 35mm film you want to scan to 4K DPX files. For 16mm film you want to scan to 2k DPX files. Today, DPX is the only format capable of providing that resolution and detail of the original 16mm and 35mm film. Editing files for 16mm and 35mm film requires a higher resolution format to create a digital master as good as the original 16mm or 35mm film. In addition, editing DPX requires a minimum of a 2 drive RAID 0 setup, 16GB of RAM, a QUAD-Core processor and a editor that support DPX like Premier Pro CS6 or newer. DPX at 2K resolution runs about 1 TB per hour of film. The best quality also means that the files are large.

#Convert 35mm slides to digital equipment professional

We also offer professional formats like DPX. We offer more editing formats that any other company.

DVD is highly compressed and is only about 40% of the resolution of your film. The reason is that even though DVD is a convenient format it is not a digital master of your film. You might ask, why do I want an editing file, I just want a DVD from my film conversion.

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If you truly want to archive your 8mm, Super 8 or 16mm film to a digital format then you really need to consider getting an editing format HD to 4K resolution like AVI, MOV (including ProRes) or MP4 Editing files. You just have to know the limitation of using DVD. So, at that point we moved to a professional DVD that has a 25+ year life time. So, DVD is a convenient format but not a long lasting format like most people thought. We know this first hand because we used average DVDs about 10 years ago and started to get a 3% return rate from customers that we did work for less then 5 years prior.

Yes, 10 years! Some will start to fail around 5 years. In fact, government studiesВ show that a good percentage of DVDs (20%) will only last about 10 years on average. It is true that not all DVDs last forever. We use 25+ and 100 year professional DVDs. It is an amazing technology that has been in development for years.ДVD is the most popular format we produce. It removes 95% of grain from film to give you a clean and sharp image from your old movies. In addition, check out our amazing film restoration Technology to Remove Film Grain. We are very proud to offer our brand new Advanced Scratch Removal Technology for film restoration. No one else offers anything like it, and the results are stunning! We are a company continually researching and developing new technologies to get more quality from your film and videotape conversions. It is our equipment and restoration technology that sets us apart. We also offer restoration services to make your 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, 35mm film, videotape and 35mm slides look like it did when it was first taken*. We do a wide range of work from amateur film and video tape to Government archives and Hollywood Independent Movies. If you are looking for the best quality video or film conversion at a good price, you found it. We only use professional broadcast equipment and are able to offer services for about 1/2 of what it would cost from a professional lab in NY or LA.