Frame by Frame Super 8 - Stamdard 8 mm Film Transfer you willsee a lot of hype about small format film transfer on the internet with claimns made that the capture is frame based or film to video and also film to DVD direct frame capture however they are not really anything like true Frame by Frame Super 8 - Stamdard 8 mm Film Transfer.

You will also read claimes that this system or that system is the best and all these claims amount to nothing more than film chain transfer or telecine which is just a nice way of saying the film is projected and not scanned or captured one frame of film for one video frame, frame by frame is a highly complex equipment system that is really simple in concept. Each single frame of super 8 or standard 8 mm film is transported at a slow 2~3 frames per second by a sophisticated film transport mechanism that advabces each film frame long enough to be scanned and capruerd as a still image which is compiled into motion video in our high powered video editing workstations to make the DVD of your super 8 movie.

The truth is much more of a lesson about false marketing and deliberate misleading the buying public.

Let us get a few things straight right off the front foot.

There is NO projecotor based method that can actually give a true frame by frame transfer. There are only two known methods that actually exist and work.

Avid Tech is proud to introduce the latest addition to our telecine services. The DV8 Sniper Pro unit, featuring a unique PulseGate Technology, amd was custom designed and fabricated by Moviestuff Texas USA  to create super 8 and Standard 8mm transfers to DVD that offer the outstanding clarity that can only come from frame by frame scanning film transfers. Every super 8mm or standard 8mm frame of your film is individually scanned directly to 700+ line broadcast imaging scanner. The gate on the Sniper Pro is enlarged to give access to 100% of the film frame and a unique, daylight balanced cool LED light provides rich, vibrant truer colours with no hot spot and no chance of burning your film.

 

Frame by frame scanning means your transfers are 100% flicker free guaranteed, crystal clear and razor sharp from edge to edge. The sprocketless drive system ensures no film damage to your precious home move films. The Sniper Pro is deadly accurate, resulting in an image that can only be surpassed by top end Rank transfer services that cost many times more. So get ready for killer transfers fom your super 8 and standard 8mm films.

 

Facts Claimes and Falshoods

You can not get the results of our system using re shot projected films using

Elmo, Goko, RCA TP66, aerial transfer, mutliplexing, telecine or projector based transfer systems no matter what name it is called it is a re shoot of the projected image in motion and since motion is involved there can be NO frame by frame capture, period.

 

Projection vs Frame by Frame

The reason none of the projected methods work as well as frame by frame has been explained above, no matter what film speed is shot you will not get a well synchronised seemingly flicker free result, how do we know this? Sinple for years we at Avid Tech have been doing pretty well with aerial via the best projectors you can get and we have never been happy with the results despite our customers being overjoyed we knew we could do better.Our reputation grew on quality film transfer becasue we used the best techniques and developed some cutting edge ideas of our own.

The real deal

2006 saw Avid Tech continue it's capital investment in the best technologies available  continue and commisioned engineers in the USA to build equipment that can and does capture one frame of film at a time. For commercial reasons we can not disclose the manufacturer but take it from us this is the real deal.

Who Else wants the best super 8 DVD transfers?

We don't blow our trmpet and claim to be the best in the world as this is a patent nonsense, the best there is will always be limited by the next technoloigical breakthrough or development. what we will say is this, there are but a handful of companies in Austrlaia, yes, you can count them with the fingers on one hand that can acutally perform frame by frame capture, of course as you would expect Avid Tech is right in the top as a company that never rests and never compromises on the best available technology. We lead others follow.

 

How it Works

 

Frame by frame

Is a system that tramsports film one frame at a time, long enough to digitse the image to hard drive as a single AVI image file, each frame is advanced and the image caputred and rendered as a single frame of video data. When the many thousands of frames have been caputred on hard drive a software package is used to assemble all those many thousands of video frames into a motion video you can watch on your TV.

Speed Accuracy

 

Because our system is so powerful we can assemble those thousands of single images on our multi cpu dedicated video editing workstations that use 10000 rpm RAID "0" arrays to handle absoloutley any task with precision accuracy without a single frame drop which most ordinary PC's just can not even hope to get close to and is another reason why projected methods are cheap because you can use an ordinary PC to capture streaming motion but not thousands of indiviual frames.

Our system means we can alter the running speed of the finsished video from 15/16 frame per second 18 fps and 24 fps with dead certain accuracy.This means that your DVD video of the film will run smoothly and appear to run at the right speed, whereas, projection methods are forced to synchronise at a particular speed to reduce filcker and the result can look most unatrural, frame by frame is frane rate accurate and uses no tricks in editing to achieve greater sharpness and claritty than any projected method can possibly come close to due to frame duscrimination of frame by frame there is no motion blur at all.

Image Frame Size

By the very nature of projectors you will lose 25% of image size due to a mask of the film gate to cover the sprocket holes of the film and also the other edge of the film is coverd to keep the film close as the claw that advances the film needs the film held very tightly in order to avoid tearing the sprocket holes.

Projectors also vary with halogen lamp strength that vaires from 50 watts to 250 watts and more, all of which are extremely hot and can actually cause bleaching and fading of your films. Films that jam up or stop in the film gare will burn and you may have seen films with burn holes. Our system does not use halogen lights or hot globes, in fact our light source is very low energy and is no where near the film as there is a light path via indirect low intensity light source that can not harm the film or bleach it since it is not even near the film.

Since there is no film gate pressure plate as such the entire frame of film is visible including the sprocket hole so we can include the very dege of the film itself.

The finsished product of course does not show the sprocket hole as you don't want or need that in your DVD video.

 

100% Flicker Free Iron Clad Guarrantee

Others claim it we guarantee ours is 100% filcker free, no if's, but or maybe.

Since we have total control over hte entire process we can tell you with certainty that our methods are exact and precise only becasue our method is 100 % frame by frame and each frame of film has it's own full frame of video data.

Make no mistake about this

We know there are very few providers in Austrlaia that can offer htis process, so be aware of what you are paying for and not getting.

Quality - Broadcast - DVD resoloution

Only frame by frame can offer booradcast quality DVD resoloution 702 x 576 full image of your film frame edge to edge, There is no major cropping and becasue we can capture the whole frame you get to see  up to 25% more image and this is so impoertant for Standard 8 mm film as the image is so tiny to begin with, lose 25% image surface area and you will have a very grainy and unsaharp film transfer as evidenced by any projection method. Frame by Frame gives you more image than any ptojector based method.

Frame by frame is as smooth as you can get.

Why frame by frame costs more than projection methods

Why projection methods are so cheap.

See it here.

 

The only website on the Australian internet to provide samples of frame by frame

and proof that we use frame by frame

Many backyard operations and retial shops who do other things that are not multimedia are not really interested in your family memories and have only one motive and that is a easy fast dollar.

Then there are those who claim they only do one thing but look deeper and you will find they do other things they say they are not doing.

Avid Tech tells it like it is, we are multimedia, we do film video, audio and related

media works including shooting wedding videos. We don't pretend to do just one thing, we are good at what we do and a lot of people say so too. We have been around long enough to know this industry and the shonks who operate in it. We urge you to choose carefully. lowest price is allways a certain disapointment as the old adage applies, you get what you pay for.

Quality is not cheap, we use the best there is available and u[grade our equipment every two years. Our DVD's are made by Verbatim as we know of no other make that is reliable and this saves us time and money as the quality is bankable, we have never made a failed DVD with our high end equipment using Vernbatim media. You wnat the best and we like to work with best tools we can as well.

Demo Transfer

Avid Tech DVD Transfers offer a free deno test transfer (you only pay for postage and a new tape)

so you can see for yourself, no fluff, no hype or false promises.What you see is what you get.

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