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Film Preservation or Restoration – Any Difference?
Preserving and Restoring at risk films is a big deal. Yes, there is a significant difference between these two concepts in terms of corrective processes and methods. In a nutshell, film preservation has to do with the recovery of the physical film body itself, if possible. Film frames that are very much degraded or heavily [...]
Film Restoration Software Vendor Overview
RHMG – Bill Werba The industrial grade film restoration application space is not an overly occupied one. You can count the number of these software vendors on your fingers. Some are well known and well entrenched in the industry, yet others are relative new comers attempting to take a piece of the market pie in [...]
True Film Restoration services in the B2C Market
RHMG – Bill Werba As a B2C business owner in the home movie transfer business, I’m always looking for ways to improve and add to my services for my customers. Where are things trending? What’s next for the industry to stay relevant? From my point of view, the next stage in services evolution is Film [...]
Competitive Comparison of an HD Film Transfer
HomeDVD has gone ahead again to check out the competition on the quality of an HD film transfer for small gauge movie film, with some surprisingly good results. A standard 3″ reel of color 8mm film was assembled that exhibited a range of transfer system challenges. The film was old and was quite grainy [...]
NTSC and PAL in Hi-Def!! I don’t think so
NTSC or PAL Operation in High Definition Video Lets start off by saying there is no such thing as NTSC or PAL in the High Definition video world. Just scan rate differences. NTSC and PAL standards are color methods and scan/refresh rates that have their origin in the analog domain. Their corollary does however have [...]
Competitive comparsion of an SD film transfer
The wide range of film telecine methods, equipment, internal workflows and post production practices have a direct impact on the visual outcome of a telecined home movie film. Lets take a look at the differences. “If I were to transfer my once in a lifetime films to DVD, choosing a film transfer vendor could be [...]
Using software based up converters to simulate HD resolutions. Film transfers can be better served.
Rumble House Media Group Inc., April 19th, 2009 I want My HD — Up converting Film Transfers to HD As a transitory step to real HD video, many consumer based manufacturers like Samsung, SONY, Panasonic and Pioneer have included an up scaling feature in their DVD player product line. The converted video is ported to [...]
The questionable benefit of transferring 8mm films to High Definition video on Blu ray disc.
We believe our customers should get the best possible outcome when considering an 8mm film transfer. Please read the article and let us know what you think. At first assessment, one could infer that the transfer of small gauge 8mm film to HD video resolutions would work out quite well. After all, utilizing a 2MP [...]
