Film transfer: We don't just set up your reels and then walk away. Our process involves a well trained technician controlling the contrast, lightness, sharpness, and to some degree the color of the images being digitized. The process requires someone with a keen, experienced eye to effectively correct all these variables.
Film Cleaning The years have proved to us that all films need to be cleaned! We use professional film cleaners to carefully hand-clean your film. This process consists of feeding the film through special soft cloths moistened by the cleaning solutions. The film gets cleaned once - more if needed. The cleaning process traps most dust and unwanted dirt particles.
We recommend special treatment with a solution called “Film Renew” if the film has mold build-up or if it has become brittle. "FilmRenew" is rarely needed.
“Film Renew” We use professional “Film Renew - Urbanski Film” to clean the film if it has mold buildup or has become overly brittle. Depending upon the condition of the film, we either soak the film in a bath of FilmRenew or carefully treat it with cloths soaked by FilmRenew solution. The excess solution is later removed.
0.40
Film Cleaning & Film Renewal includes bad splice renewals -- up to 3 splices per reel
Splice Renewal Renewing splices is very time-consuming and must be done with great care. We use professional film cement glue to complete the splice. A splice renewal happens when we find a broken splice, a missing leader, or a splice which needs replacing. (Per large reel, we perform 3 splices - free of charge. If more are needed, which is rare, then we charge per additional splice.)
A reel is considered overfilled when the film is close to reaching the reel’s edge. There must be at least 2 mm of empty space before a reel’s edge. If an “overfill” is the case, the film must go through 3 additional time consuming steps in order to allow for a proper transfer.
DVDs and Blu-ray Discs allow for making short personalized menu titles (30 characters maximum per title). These menu titles allow for jumping to a specific section on the disc depending upon what you would like to view at any given time. We usually give each reel of film transferred its own separate menu title (unless you chose the option of "splice together", in which case please make up one menu title per 8 small reels of film. The typical title for the combined reels often includes just a span of years; i.e. “1988 - 1991”.)
IMPORTANT NOTE:
We need your menu titles in writing, please. If you would like text menu titles, please type them up and send them to us by email. We do not want to make a mistake by trying to type them up ourselves!
If you don't supply specific text for a menu title, that's OK; you'll still get a photo-menu title.
3.50
disc duplication set-up fee
10.00
PAL-NTSC set-up
25.00
Custom Edits
5.00
7-inch (400ft) plastic reel, with case
9.20
Hard drives and USB sticks in stock
SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB 3.2 Type-C and A 32 GB
16.00
SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB 3.2 Type-C and A 64 GB
20.00
SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Luxe USB 3.2 Type-C and A 128 GB
33.00
SanDisk Dual Drive USB 3.1 Type-C and A 256 GB
52.00
SanDisk Dual Drive USB 3.1 Type-C and A 512 GB
65.00
Seagate One Touch 1 TB
86.00
SanDisk 1TB Extreme Portable SSD 1 TB
122.00
Seagate 4TB One Touch USB 3.2 Gen 1 4 TB
129.00
FilmFix Private Cloud
Account base-charge (minimum)
30.00
5 GB = 1 storage tier (15 ¢ per tier per month)
$ 1.80/year
50 GB = 10 storage tiers (15 ¢ per tier per month)
$ 18.00/year
Plan Renewal Processing Fee
12.00
Payment Transaction Fee
4.5%
Super-8 Film (S8) / Normal 8mm Film (N8)
How does my film format affect price?
Most Normal 8 mm film was shot at 16 frames per second, whereas Super 8 was shot at 18 frames per second. Therefore, Normal 8 film has a longer running time and amounts to more minutes of transferred footage as compared to Super 8 film. Since we base our invoice price on total minutes of transferred footage, the two formats make the price differ a bit. (Note: If the original film was shot at 24 frames per second, it will have shorter running-time and will cost less.)
16, 18 and 24 frames per second
How does my film speed affect price?
It doesn't affect the total minutes worth of running-time that you have. However, it does affect the cleaning price, since we base our cleaning price on total meters of film. Film shot at a higher rate of speed translates to more actual film footage used. Thus, it increases the cleaning cost by a small amount.
How to determine if your film was shot at 18 or 24 frames per second
Most Normal-8 films were shot at 16 frames per second, and most Super-8 films were shot at 18 frames per second.
Very few films were shot at 24 frames per second (fps) and usually only a trained projectionist can determine the speed at which a film was shot.
Film shot at 24 fps produced smoother looking camera movements. It should have been the preferred speed to shoot at, but there was the cost factor. It used up film more quickly!
Film with Sound and Silent Film
How does film with Sound and Silent film affect price?
Film with Sound is slightly thicker than film without it, so film with sound takes up a little more space when wound on the reel. It's not so noticeable on a small, 3-inch reel but does become quite noticeable on a large, 7-inch reel.
We transfer film with sound -- few transfer houses do! And, we charge the same rate whether or not film has sound.
Only films that have magnetic band(s) have the capability of having sound recorded onto them. Simply having a magnetic band on a film does not mean the film definitively has sound. It could still be silent if no sound was ever recorded onto it.
Silent (without soundtracks)
.. Super-8
Normal 8
With one or two magnetic soundtracks
Super-8
Super-8
Normal 8
Normal 8
Most commonly transferred film
Most film we receive is Super 8, without sound (silent) and was shot at 18 frames per second.
Phone: (805) 640-8883
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