Frame by Frame Super 8 and 8mm Film Transfer
Let our video professionals convert your family's old
super 8 and 8mm film movies into clean and
restored, easy to view digital videos.
Our process is a true frame-by-frame transfer which
scans each individual frame of film one-by-one.
We first clean your old film and
scan each individual frame. Our experts then manually color and exposure
correct each scene at no extra charge. Pricing starts at just 20 cents
per foot of film or just $10 for a 50 foot reel.
See pricing
details below.
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You can take your digitized footage as an uncompressed AVI or MOV file on a hard drive for
editing at home or we can master a DVD for you that will play on your DVD
player.
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You Call All The Shots! Online Custom Chapter Title and DVD Menu
Editing |
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Once your reels are digitized, enhanced and cleaned up by our editors, we put
your video clips on our website so you can view and rearrange the clips and
label them with captions. The link to view your clips is private to
you but you can share it with your friends and family if you like. As soon
as you're done organizing and labeling the clips we burn you a full set of DVDs
with menus. Your captions become the DVD chapters on the DVD menu. DVDs
are just $6 each.
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DigMyPics Online Video
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DigMyPics 8mm Film Transfer Services Includes All This:
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Frame By Frame Film Transfer |
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Includes Manual Color Correction by our Videographers |
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All Film is Cleaned and Lubricated. No Extra Charge
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Online Organization to Rearrange Your Clips
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Online Customization of Chapter Titles and DVD Menu
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Formats Available So You Can Edit at Home
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Share Your Movies Online Upon Completion
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All work performed in the USA by Professional Videographers |
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True
Frame-By-Frame Transfer
Your film is captured frame-by-frame as each frame passes through a projector
with an enlarged gate with a specialized light source in front of a half-inch 3CCD
camera.
The enlarged gate allows us to capture the entirety of the frame. As each frame
passes through the projection gate, a picture is taken. These individual frames
are put into specialized software that converts the frames into a movie, resulting
in a solid, smooth, flicker-free capture. This process produces a higher-quality transfer
and you will not loose anything from your original film.
Your Film is Cleaned and Lubricated
Each reel is individually cleaned and lubricated with Edwal Anti Static Film
Cleaner. The film passes under a microfiber cloth that removes dust and debris
that may have built up over the years. This helps keep the film hydrated and
pliable while also filling in small scratches and giving the film a light
protective coating. It makes your movies cleaner and brighter!
During this process, we inspect the film, add leader if necessary, and repair tears
or bad splices. Also, at no extra cost we will combine up to 8 small 50ft reels
together onto one large 400ft archival reel(s) for more compact and safe storage.
See our Movie Film Transfer FAQs for more information!
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Before & After Digital Transfer Service
Please Note: Not all films will benefit equally from color correction.
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Unlike super bright projector bulbs that tend to blow out a picture, our specialized
light source provides a softer and more realistic light. We also have the ability
to control the brightness of each scene during capture of your film so that your
darker scenes are brighter and your brighter scenes aren't blown out.
Our LED light source puts out much less heat than a projector bulb to eliminate the chance
of film burn or hot spots on the movie. See our Movie Film
Transfer FAQs for more information!
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Unlike an automated setup, we monitor your film as it is captured to be sure no
dust or hairs get into the transfer. We watch the transfer on an LCD TV Monitor
and keep clean, compressed air ready in case any debris gets into the film gate.
This is a huge advantage over non frame-by-frame methods!
We then take your film into our professional editing consoles and convert your
captured film to play at it's original speed on your TV or computer. We will
remove all of the blank footage. You are not charged for any of the blank
footage.
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See our
Movie Film Transfer FAQs for more information!
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All 8mm Film Transfer Pricing Includes
Film Cleaning · Color Correction · Digital Film Conversion ·
Splicing
Online Viewing · Online Organization · Custom DVD Menus
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Pricing |
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Under 3000 Feet |
20¢/Foot |
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3000+ Feet |
18¢/Foot |
One 50 Foot reel is only $10 for the transfer.
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NOTES: Each DVD is an
additional $6. About 20 reels of 50' film will fit on each DVD. Although most home movie film is silent, we can transfer sound for an additional
25¢ per foot. See our Movie Reel Transfer FAQ
for more information.
DigMyPics is the leader in a broad base of personal digital archiving technologies.
No other company offers the breadth of expertise, experience, offerings and technology
to help you preserve your personal archives. We do all the work from our sole location
in Gilbert, Arizona, so you can feel good about supporting
the American artists that work at DigMyPics! See our
Movie Reel Transfer FAQs for more information!
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Did you know you can also get your movie reels in an editable file format? We will
transfer full quality uncompressed .avi files from your 8mm and Super8 reels to
a 320Gb USB 2.0 External Hard Drive! This hard drive does not require a "wall
plug" to power it up. You only need your computer and the USB cable that comes
with it.
Alternatively, you can use a ripping and converting software such as AVS Video Converter
to convert the playable DVDs we make into editable files. The resulting files will
not look as crisp as the uncompressed .avi files we provide, and conversion time
may be lengthy depending on the speed of your computer. See our
Movie Film Transfer FAQs for more information!
Please Note: Every 1000 feet of film uses approximately 20Gb of
hard drive space in an uncompressed .avi format at 720x480 resolution.
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Questions About Transferring Your Movie Reels?
Call us at 1-866-364-5952 or email
sales@digmypics.com