Celebrating Another Year in Business!

It feels good to be a part of our community and in our 16th year of business.

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Author: Laura Courtens

FilmFix, privacy, cloud, data, secure, family, digitize, slides, transfer, memories

What Makes FilmFix's Private Cloud Different

When most people think "cloud storage," they think of the big names — Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox. So why would a film transfer company offer its own cloud service? And more importantly,...

film transfer, Super 8, HD, digitize, restoration

Is Re-Transferring Worth It? A Professional Filmmaker Re-Scans His Super 8 Original

When filmmaker and editor Daniel Frazier sent us comparison images of his long-ago Super 8 film transfer -- as compared to our company's current transfer -- even we were amazed at the...

35mm film, film resolution, APS, digitization, ASA/ISO, grain type

35mm Film Resolution (Part 1)

Nowadays, when we refer to a photograph's "resolution" or "image quality", we generally mean its pixel density or, when printed, its Dots per Inch (DPI). Back in the days of film...

frame, capture, film, transfer, telecine, scanner, xenon, 3CCD, image

Frame-by-Frame and How It Is Achieved

A customer asks: "Can you confirm if you are filming or capturing each frame separately?" Yes, we are "filming" in real time — but each and every frame is captured separately — as a single...

DAC Video, media transfer, tape digitization, Santa Barbara, 8mm, Super 8, Slides, 805, SB

DAC VIDEO in Santa Barbara: End of an Era

Oh John, we are sorry to see you had to close your doors. DAC Video was an institution. During my "Brooks Institute" years in the mid-90's, they were known as the 'go-to place' for media...

upscaling, post-production, 4K transfer, 2K film transfer, image stabilization, convert

Post-Production Guide on When To Upscale

It's during the initial image stabilization process that the image's grain gets seriously remapped, thus the upscaling process should be done along with the image stabilization. The reason...