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8mm, Super8, and 16mm FILM MOVIES - We perform digital frame-by-frame, 100% flicker free conversions. The vividness and color saturation of 40 year old film often looks better than 5-year-old VHS tapes!

These samples are representative of the quality you should expect to receive with the transfer of your film, providing your film is in fairly good shape and has been stored properly through the years. Each of these samples have been color corrected to enhance the video quality. Our color correction is provided to you at no extra charge. Please keep in mind that the streaming video you see here is actually of lesser quality than the video that is on a DVD. We have to keep the files size small in order for it to download within a respectable time frame.

UNDERSTANDING THE ENTIRE TELECINE PROCESS

FRAME-BY-FRAME (100% FLICKER FREE) TRANSFER - Please do your research carefully.
Flicker-free does NOT necessarily mean "frame-by-frame". A 5 blade or variable speed projector may eliminate the flicker but the quality of the image is affected in every case. The same holds true with the GOKO telecine transfer units. They use a prism to "fade" the STROBE affect, but the image suffers greatly and is cropped. We do not process ANY of our 8mm film transfers with any of these "real-time" methods.

Aside from a muli-thousand dollar "Rank" transfer, we use the best approach possible, which is a true frame-by-frame process, capturing the entire image of each frame without cropping. A highly sophisticated 3CCD camera with broadcast quality optics captures the image of every single frame of the film while it is STOPPED. The image is taken directly from the face of the film, passed through the camera via a firewire connection to a computer's hard drive as a full frame of video. With this process the clarity and color of the image is not compromised so the end result, when transferred to a DVD, is absolutely stunning. This process is only surpassed by actual film scanning as used by Hollywood houses, known as a "Rank transfer". However, the cost of that is in the thousands of dollars, and it is beyond what most consumers are willing to pay. Furthermore, a Rank transfer is reserved mostly for 35mm movie film.

Most film conversion transfer houses do not edit obscure footage and do not add a music soundtrack. We also add a music soundtrack, menus, and "video" thumbnail chapter buttons... at no extra charge. The quality of our audio is Dolby Digital 2.1 channel (stereo, plus a subwoofer channel).

We place chapters breaks in logical places, based on film content, with pinpoint precision. For example, we might place a chapter right between a Christmas scene and a backyard BBQ scene, even if they happen to be on the same reel of film. This way you can jump directly to the exact scene you'd like, just like you jump to your favorite song on a CD. We would NEVER place a chapter break 10 seconds before the aforementioned Christmas scene ends, as might be the case with some other studios who use a set-top DVD recorder to perform a film transfer.

Furthermore, we could collaborate with you to create your own commentary track for your DVD. One single layer DVD will hold approximately 1.5 hours of your 8mm footage at high quality (> 6 Mbps) bit rates, and one dual layer DVD will hold approximately 3 hours of your 8mm footage at high quality (> 6 Mbps) bit rates. We can make multiple copies of the finished DVD so other family members can enjoy it also.

$45.00 for the addition of personalized audio commentary, provided by the customer.
Call 570-254-6136 or mail us for details.

$40.00 to include a personalized music soundtrack of your choice.
(Up to 8 parallel audio tracks, including new commentary, AND the ORIGINAL FILM soundtrack*, can coexist on the disc)

$20.00 for seemless, animated transitions between menus.

$20.00 for each additional copy of the finished DVD (single layer, 2 hour disc).
$25.00 for each additional copy of the finished DVD (dual layer, 4 hour disc).

*For Super8 and 16mm film that originally included sound.

Useful Film Information
Feet Viewing Time Super 8mm 50 2 min 55 sec 200 11 min 40 sec 400 23 min 20 sec Regular 8mm 50 3 min 15 sec 200 13 min 2 sec 400 26 min 2 sec 16mm 400 11 min

35mm SLIDES

35 mm slides provided everyone in the room an opportunity to view all those snapshots together. Families were entertained with the large photos as they popped up in succession on the large screen. With a DVD player connected to a projector, you can enjoy these same pictures on the big screen. If you don't have a projector, watch them on your large screen TV right from your DVD player. GrafXpress has the technology to transfer all your slides to a DVD and add a 5.1 channel audio track to make the viewing a little more enjoyable.

A DVD-ROM can also be created so that you can print out your own enlargements of your 35mm slides right from your home computer!

Pricing for up to 3,000 slides:

$12.00 per DVD plus:

OPTION 1: Archive 35mm slides to DVD-Video to play in a slide show in your set top (living room) DVD player - $.75 each

$45.00 for the addition of personalized audio commentary, provided by the customer.
Call 570-254-6136 or mail us for details.

$40.00 to include a personalized music soundtrack of your choice.
(Up to 8 parallel audio tracks, including commentary, can coexist on the disc)

$20.00 for seemless, animated transitions between menus.

$20.00 for each additional copy of the finished DVD.

VIDEO

Although VHS video tapes were very popular during the last two decades, they are now being replaced rapidly with DVDs. The newer technology provides unsurpassed quality in video and audio. The audio on many Hollywood DVDs is usually encoded with a 5.1 channnel audio track, making it sound as if you're in the middle of all the action. Pick out your favorite family VHS tapes and have GrafXpress convert them to DVD now before the quality degrades any further. You will find that our prices provide you with the best value over many other studios.

We would be happy to discuss your conversion project and to answer your technical questions. We perform all conversion work in our own studio using the latest electronic equipment and software to ensure professional results.