ABOUT US

Every aspect of our machines that involve capturing and digitizing the images from your film has been upgraded using our own custom-designed components that we machine on-site in our machine shop. These optics have been specifically designed to transfer film in its current state. They have been optimized to improve color, light and sharpness in order to breathe new life into your images.

Performed by our senior color technicians in our monitored scans. Our colorists will adjust for light and color to enhance the images to make your film look as good as possible. Initial adjustments are made in the scanner, which gives us a greater range of light and color and allows us to target specific areas of need, rather than make one-size-fits-all changes.

Our colorists will adjust for light and color to enhance the images to make your film look as good as possible. Additional color processing is performed in DaVinci Resolve, software that is the industry standard for feature films. DaVinci Resolve requires skilled colorists to get good results, so all color correction is performed by one of our senior colorists, each of whom have over 15 years of experience.

Your films are priceless, and safe digitization is paramount. Our scanners are not like projectors. There is no hot bulb that can burn the film, and we use a sprocket-less capstan servo system that does not apply stop-and-start pressure on the film. Your film will scan in a smooth, very tightly controlled constant velocity throughout the entire process.

Our film transfers are regulated by Meta Speed Digital Servo System, which can regulate the accuracy of your frame rate within .001 a second. Not only will your film will be transferred with the accurate speed at which it was shot with absolutely no flicker, but it will be scanned with a constant velocity which will ensure a safe transfer.

Your film will be delivered at the frame-rate at which it was shot, with no added half or repeated frames (known as a pull-down). This means that each frame in your digital conversion will correspond to an individual film frame, creating a smooth playing image. You can even isolate an individual frame to create a still print. This progressive scanning is the only serious option for preserving the original integrity of your film.

Available with our ULTRA 1080p Transfer.We digitize and color correct your film, then take the digitized files and run them through DaVinci. If you've watched an old movie in the past 10 years, you've probably seen the results of this process from DaVinci software. Every frame of film will be analyzed, and the appearance of dust, dirt and scratches will be removed or greatly reduced. This process also reduces grain and noise in the picture. The film will still retain the quality of its format, but the transfer will play smoother and cleaner than ever before.

We scan film in Ultra HD. That's up to 5x higher resolution than High Definition. Our scanner's new imaging system captures the film at 24 times higher than the original design. Then we output your film to 720p or 1080p. This is called oversampling. The result of oversampling is a sharper image with lower noise than what can be delivered by scanning at the same resolution of the output file. For example, we scan 16mm at 5K to create a 1080p transfer. This is exceptionally rare. Most companies that offer HD transfers are scanning film at just the level of High Definition (or sometimes below).

We are one of the few studios in the country with the ability to transfer and sync PROFESSIONAL sound tracks and home movies. We have the capacity to handle both types or audio tracks - optical and magnetic - and we can handle rare formats, including Regular 8mm Fairchild audio film.