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Ordering is Simple
Ordering is so Easy !
You can do absolutely everything here on this website then print off your order and send it in with your cine reels for film transfer or you can phone your order through or visit us personally.
Add up the number of minutes (eg. If you have ten 8mm 3 inch reels it becomes 10 x 4 mins = 40 min at £1.50 per minute that’s £60 ex VAT and delivery.
Order here Online or Phone us
1. Order Online - put the number of minutes in the Quantity box and click BUY NOW
2. Select any other extra's you require eg. Express Service, Film Collection Service, Cine Viewer Hire
3. Finalise by clicking Checkout, submit payment. (credit / debit card, cheque or Pay-Pal)
4. Now Print off your order and enclose a signed copy with your films to Cine to DVD, Portland Gate, 21 Portland Square, Bristol BS2 8SJ or we can collect your films from your home or work place anywhere in mainland UK for a small fee.
Confused ? We can take phone order and provide a quote in minutes.
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No extra Fees
1. Audio Transfer: If we find sound on your films (usually super8) we'll transfer it at no extra cost.
2. Multiple Film Sizes: There are many different sizes of films and speeds. We don't charge for mixed budles.
3. Picture Editing: Cine film by nature has a black fuzzy edge around them, we take the time to zoom in slightly to remove it.
4. Lifetime Guarantee: The DVDs we use are professional Sony stock. If they fail under noraml useage we will replace them free of charge
5. Film Speed Alteration: Many competitors of ours cheat - they load all your little films on one big reel then hit play and record and walk away. Not us, we do them one by one, ensuring each one is played back at the optimal speed, colour and focus
6. Reducing blank clips: We edit out the obvious unwanted portions eg the leader tape and the end bits which may not have been recorded on. This gives your movies an almost seamless flow.
7. Film Sequence: You may wish your cine films to be in a certain order. Just number then. We Don't charge
8. DVD Chapter Points: We automatically encode this on your dvds allowing you to skip big chunks whilst watching on your TV using your DVD remote controller.
9. Archive Copies: We hold backups of DVD's here incase yours get lost. If ever you need more then just call us.
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Flicker Free Film Transfer
The vast majority of cine film conversion companies in todays market are "work from home" operations who simply project the cine film onto a white wall or screen and record it with a video camera. They do this with the best of intentions, but the results are still very poor.
Some of these companies transfer your Super-8 cine films and mistake it for 8mm. The important mistake here is that super 8 cine films have sound recorded on to it. This sound is then lost forever if you can't remeber if it had sound or not. We are used to handling all types of cine films, any the audio will be transferred onto your DVDs or Videos free of charge. 8mm, Super8, 9.5mm and 16mm are the most common formats.
The big problem with transferring cine films is the flicker effect. This is because cine film was recorded at 18 or 24 frames per second and TV footage is at 25 frames per second. Unless your footage is synchronised you get a "flicker" due to missed frames. What you end up with is a DVD or Video which have the same quality as an old Charlie Chaplin film at the cinema.
Some of the better companies try to reduce the flicker effect. They use variable-speed recording equipment. They try to set it to the same rate that the cine film is playing, crudely matching up the speed. The results are modest to say the least. Others scan in each clip frame-by-frame, upload it to a computer and then using electronic AVI and MPEG editing software play around with the speed. To do this they have to add duplicate frames. The result is a film with worse playing quality than with the flicker effect. Of course they are hoping that you have not watched the films in a long time, so you do not know what the quality actually was! The absolute amateurs will convert the cine film to a video format. Then using an all in one DVD recorder, with push button editing capabilities try to adjust the quality.
Once the flicker effect is recorded onto your movie, no fancy video editing will sort it, it can not be removed. Any attempt to will reduce quality and fine detail that were on your original movies will now be lost. To save time some companies encode your film at a set rate, normally a low rate so that more footage will fit onto your DVD or Video. We utalise a "varible" rate encoding process, which results in fantastic quality movies that the whole family will enjoy watching. Nice natuaral colour and the faces that you have not seen in decades come to life once more. We can even transfer your movies to AVI and burn them onto DVDs or CDs, so that you can edit them at home.
We transfer cine films for major TV companies, Blue Chip Companies as well as major Univerity research archives.
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Client Review of Cine to AVI
Below is some reviews from delighted customers who had either 8mm or super 8 cine film converted to AVI clips
8mm film transfer -
"We received the DVDs last week. Everything was first class, my father had some great old footage from the 1960s and 70s which we had never seen."
Murty - Coventry
8mm film transfer -
"I am really, really pleased with the transfer of my parents cine film to DVD, it will make a special Christmas present to them, they have never wanted to let someone touch their irreplaceable films but will be so pleased that we have done this for them. thanks again, will definitely recommend you"
Carolyn - London
Super 8 film transfer -
"I Received my box yesterday, they contained 3 hours of more than 30 year old 8mm films converted to DVD. Would like to let you know that I’ve been crying my eyes out while watching the DVDs, for they are fragments of my own and my siblings childhood... I’m so happy this material is now saved and hopefully some future generations will appreciate its sentimental value as much as I do... I’m visiting my mum next month and think that she has even more 8mm material in a cupboard wasting away, so I will get that rescued as well. Will be using you again and am very happy with the provided service"
Gill - Bolton
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