HOME CINE FILM TRANSFER

Super 8mm and Standard 8mm cine film.

Castlecross is one of only a small number of UK companies equipped with professional equipment to transfer all formats of cine film to DVD, digital tape or external drive for viewing or editing at home.

Digital re-mastering

At Castlecross we don’t believe there is any point in transferring your precious cine film if there is a loss of quality in any way, and preferably we’d like to improve the appearance of your pictures in the transfer process. That is why we only use equipment, software and highly experienced editors to digitally re-master and enhance the qualities of your movies, rather than simply copy the defects.

Film scanning

Castlecross transfers Standard 8mm and Super 8mm cine film to DVD, using professional frame-by-frame film scanners from the USA. The result is amazingly sharp pictures, visible from corner-to-corner with none of the usual flicker or hotspots found with less sophisticated transfer methods. Our Air Blast and liquid film cleaning process eliminates much of the surface dust caused by static, and cleverly optically masks most scratches caused by projecting the film. Finally, crystal clear digital video files are passed to dedicated broadcast quality video edit computer workstations where your DVD is made and backed up to our library for security and for future copies. Finally your title is printed in colour on the DVD body and on an insert in an attractive presentation case.

Editing

Our editors carefully view the pictures and manually remove unwanted sections and flashes as well as correcting brightness, contrast and restoring natural colours. We could cram up to two hours of movie on a DVD but that would mean lowering the quality below what we have achieved by digital re‐mastering. To maintain the best possible picture quality, we encode no more than about 90 minutes of your movie to a DVD. You will notice the difference when viewing on a modern plasma or LCD TV.

Rates: Prices include VAT.

Cine film to DVD re-mastering. Domestic formats: Standard 8mm & Super8mm

There are two separate charges A and B to transfer cine film to DVD.

A. FILM TRANSFER CHARGE for each cine reel depending on its length and running time as follows:

3inch reel holds approx 50ft of film and runs for 4 minutes	=		£7 per reel
5inch reel holds approx 200ft of film and runs for 15 minutes	=		£15 per reel
7inch reel holds approx 400ft of film and runs for 30 minutes	=		£18 per reel
9inch reel holds approx 800ft of film and runs for 60 minutes	=		£25 per reel
12inch reel holds approx 12000ft of film and runs for 90 minutes	=		£30 per reel

Film transfer Involves: Clean and repair film, frame-by-frame film scanning using sophisticated equipment from the USA and scratches optically masked with specialist film cleaning fluid

B . DVD CREATION CHARGE There are two options, Basic or Enhanced as follows:

£25 BASIC DVD OPTION for a First Play DVD. First play means that the DVD starts to play automatically and plays right through to the end. Random chapter points are placed at approximately five minute intervals to skip forward.

£50 ENHANCED DVD OPTION. Titles are placed before each reel, flashes are removed, colour and brightness are corrected and background music can be added. Chapter points are placed at each film title and a Hollywood movie style chapter selection menu enables each film to be selected using your remote control. See below for details of Enhancements.

Enhanced DVD option.
When we create an enhanced DVD from domestic cine film our editors will carefully view and edit the pictures; add titles and music together with a chapter selection menu that will make your precious movies easier to select and more enjoyable to watch.

Editing.
Manual removal of unwanted flashes and damaged sections as well as correcting brightness, contrast and restoring natural colours.

Titles
Each reel can have your own choice of title up to 30 characters long. For example: “Our Devon holiday August 1970” Please number your cine reels and make a list of your titles. If you’re not sure what is on your films you can order a Preview DVD to view your footage and decide titles. See below.

Chapter menu
If you have several films on your DVD we can add “chapter points” at the title of each reel so that can use your DVD player remote control to select them from a personalised Hollywood style chapter selection menu. A short clip taken from each of your movies will play in the picture frame chapter selection menu. See below for typical examples.

  

Preview DVD

£25 per 90 minutes of video.

If you’re not sure what is on the reels and would like to view all them to decide the running order, titles and what sections to leave off your finished DVD, you can order a DVD preview copy with in-vision time code to identify every frame.

Creating your own DVD

For those customers wishing to edit their raw footage and create a DVD on their own computer. This provides a robust high quality long-term archive solution preserving you precious movies for future generations.

Click here or call 01670 789502 to discuss your exact requirements.

Castlecross promise: We guarantee to beat any genuine comparative Telecine quotation.

Identify your film.

Super 8mm and Standard 8mm cine film.

• 3inch reel holds approx 50ft of film and runs for 4 minutes
  
• 5inch reel holds approx 200ft of film and runs for 15 minutes
  
• 7inch reel holds approx 400ft of film and runs for 30 minutes
  
• 9inch reel holds approx 800ft of film and runs for 60 minutes
  
• 12inch reel holds approx 12000ft of film and runs for 90 minutes

Call us on 01670 789502 for assistance.