NEW - Film Conversion using High Definition Transfer

First, on all Film to DVD projects, we make an additional copy of your edited film onto MiniDV and store these copies in our studio vault. They will be available years in the future, should something happen to your DVDs. There will be a small re-authoring charge to access these MiniDV tapes, but it's a small price to pay for peace of mind. You need to tell us if you do NOT want us to store a copy of your film.

Secondly, something we learned early on, is to try to save as much footage of film as we can, by editing out broken, black, and damaged setions int he computers after the film has been digitized, rather than splicing, and leaving it on the cutting room floor. This way, we can maximize the footage that is there by being more precise, and possibly saving many smaller sections that would have otherwise been lost.

Not only is the amount of footage important, but the size of the frame. We've had special gate's machined into our telecine's to allow us to shoot outside the frame, and then digitally crop it afterwards. We even add a bit of dummy space around the frame, so not to get any of the actual image hidden behind the TV Cabinet.

Here is an illistration to help show what we mean......