8mm and 16mm film transfers to HD

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

I just thought I would let you guys know I updated http://www.uppsalabildteknik.com/english/ a few days ago. We can now offer HD transfers from both 8mm and 16mm film.

I also have a special webpage that cannot be found through the menu-system on the webpage. It is a special offer for new 8mm films, please note that the prices on this specialpage are not valid for old famliyfilms! There is no link to this webpage because I don´t want to get tons of email from clients with old famliyfilms with questions about why they cannot have a onelight from their familyfilms.

You can find the special prices here: http://www.uppsalabildteknik.com/english/?page=999

Give a link to your filmshooting friends, lets keep super 8 alive! :mrgreen:

[aj]

Hmm, interesting. Is it safe to ship harddisks in and out with the film? Even as small modern USB 3.5" disks. It is still a bumpy ride.

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

If you pack it well with lots of soft stuff around the disk, I can´t see why it can´t be done.

The important thing here is no envelopes. Put it in a box so you can give it a smooth ride, and I´m not talking about the box that the hard drive is sitting in on the shelf in the store. A big cardboard box with lots of wrinkled newspapers all around the drive (or something like that), with the original harddrive-box inside the bigger cardboard box... Now we are talking soft ride. :mrgreen:

I have received drives in both envelopes and in the original harddrive-box. The envelope-drive was dead, not surprised about that at all... :roll: The drive in the original harddrive-box survived, but I would never ship a hard drive with so little packaging around it.

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

Or, to save on the bumpy-rides you could buy a hard drive from me, then the drive only needs to be shipped one way.

I´m not trying to make lots of money on the hard drive-sales, so the price for a new 500GB or 1TB drive is reasonable (at least compared to what they cost in sweden).

[richard p. t.]

this is a very generous offer kent!
How many rolls of hd telecine could you fit on a 16 GB memory stick (with an acceptable amount of compression)?
richard

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

I will only scan to ProRes, it is a fantastic codec with really good quality. And it is a "full resolution codec", as in 1280x720 instead of some nonsquare pixel thingy like DVCProHD.

In Telecine 2 about one minute will be one GB, and that includes both the actual playbach time and time for me fiddling with exposure and color settings. So it can differ a bit depending on if the films are filled with lots of short clips with different exposure levels/color settings. Automatic exposure will fit more on the flash drives, since I won´t have to stop and adjust exposure levels, only colors.

In Telecine 1 it will fit a lot more (since the framerate is more compressed, I will transfer the film in 50p without doing any pulldown. So if you are shooting 24fps and want a Telecine 1 your 16GB drive should fit about/almost 32 minutes in 1280x720 ProRes.

I´ll get back to you with a more specific answer once I know more. I actually haven´t received the scanner yet, it should arrive any day now unless it gets delayed (it is already delayed, but I´m hoping there will be no new delays).

What gets really interesting is that there are both 32GB and 64GB flash drives out there. Now that would be handy for small/medium size telecine jobs! :mrgreen:

Or what the... how about 128GB external USB sticks? I didn´t know they existed... http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... nkCode=asm

And here is a solid state external USB drive with 128GB http://www.nextag.com/Transcend-TS128GS ... rices-html

[Ektagraphic]

The more I look into transfers, the more expensive they seem to get. Spectra wants over $100 for one roll of film, processing, and telecine......

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

Well a Telecine 1 of one reel... I would charge $7.73 for a HD transfer to ProRes with the currency rate of today.

Should be affordable, and definetly less expensive than most transfer houses that offer HD telecine.

Im just hoping I won´t get swamped with tons or orders for telecine of one reel, that would probably kill the whole idea of no minimum orders over time.

[Ektagraphic]

That sound quite affordable! Are they in the US? If not, I don't think they are an option. I'm not to keen on sending my films out of the country

[Will2]

That sound quite affordable! Are they in the US? If not, I don't think they are an option. I'm not to keen on sending my films out of the country

Yes! Who knows what those foreigners would do with your film!

It is a little bit of a pain to send cameras overseas for repairs (but for a Beaulieu the best is of course in Sweden) but I've never sent film. I would think somewhere along the customs line it would get x-rayed but I have no idea.

[VideoFred]

It is a little bit of a pain to send cameras overseas for repairs (but for a Beaulieu the best is of course in Sweden) but I've never sent film. I would think somewhere along the customs line it would get x-rayed but I have no idea.

I have send an E64T cartridge twice all the way down under to Nanolab for processing and it came back fine with no problems whatsoever.

PS: congratulations with the new scanner, Kent!

Fred.

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

Whatever someone would send me for telecine would already be processed. So any x-ray shouldn´t matter I guess.

Thanks Fred!

[greg_8mm]

So do you have some samples of transferred super8 to HD?

I have almost 1000ft of super8 vision2 waiting to be scanned, but you guys sound pretty reasonable pricewise.. I'd love to see some HD samples.

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

Not yet. The FlashscanHD is delayed and should arrive next week according to the manufacturer. I will put both "normal" filmclips and SMPTE testclips on my webpage, hopefully at the end of next week.

[greg_8mm]

I just sent you a pm about the prices...