Small gauge Film Scanning, Colour Timing, Post Processing and Stabilization.
For films, big and small... amateur and professional alike.
Technical Information:
- All film is cleaned, examined for damage, fixed (if needed) and then scanned. Leader is attached to the head of all rolls so you won't miss a frame.
- All film is scanned the same way, there is no basic and premium.
- All film is scanned at 1080P, in 4:2:2 colour space, frame by frame (not telecined or recorded of a wall), with our custom built HD film scanners.
- Digital file formats used: Uncompressed 4:2:21080P AVI, and 1080P MPEG2 30mbits per second (some lower end editing programs need to transcode the MPEG2 footage before it can be imported ie. Imovie and earlier versions of Final Cut.)
- Customers supplied drives must be empty or at least able to be formatted. All drives formatted to NTFS format.
- Apple based clients you can read off of the drive, but you cannot save to it. Our suggestion is to copy the footage to another drive, once you are certain that the footage is safely off, format the original drive to the file system of your choice, then copy the transferred material back onto the now properly formatted drive. you may have to transcode the footage into a quicktime format, depending on your systems specs.
- PC based clients using Windows XP or newer, will be able to simply plug the drive in and play. Please note due to the enormous data-rates of uncompressed HD footage, playback will 'stutter' through USB 2.0. The MPEG2 file should play back in real time depending on computer's specs.
- Drive specifications: Windows XP compatible, NTFS format (or we will reformat to NTFS), USB 2.0, - We have had great success and recommend the Western Digital My Passport drives of 500GB's and up. Due to the large size of Uncompressed HD files, we suggest at least a 500GB hard drive for most jobs under 2000' of film.
- File sizes and data-rates: Uncompressed 1080P 4:2:2: AVI - approximately 16.5 GB per 50' of super 8mm or 100' of 16mm film 2044kbps. MPEG2 1080P 4:2:2 compressed footage is 728mb for the same 50' of super8mm.