We are presenting a continuing series to explain what effects, phenomenon, and peculiarities one should look for in evaluating the quality of a home movie film conversion and transfer to DVD. Many of these considerations are applicable to regular 8mm, Super 8mm, as well as 16mm film conversion and ... Read More »
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Film Transfer to DVD Compared with VHS
Have you ever wondered about the quality differences for an 8mm home movie transfer to DVD as opposed to VHS? In the 1980s VHS video began to become widely used by consumers and many had their 8mm home movie collections duplicated to VHS. It was reasonable to assume that because technology advances ... Read More »
VHS & BetaMax Video Tape Duplication for Optimum Viewability
There are two approaches to the duplication of VHS and 8mm Video legacy memories to DVD. The most obvious approach is a direct one where a playable DVD is produced for each cassette of a given collection. This sounds like a viable manner in which to proceed. However, it gives no consideration to the ... Read More »
The “Voice-O-Graph” Recording Booth
Starting in the 1940s there were coin operated audio recording booths found at county fairs and other public assemblies. Most people reading this are probably thinking to themselves, “The 40s? Wasn’t that when T. Rex still roamed the earth and somebody was just thinking of inventing the wheel?” For ... Read More »
Complimentary Color Correction
Home movies often have undesired attributes owing mostly to consumer production and to a lesser extent the limitations of consumer grade video camcorders. These camcorders are designed and manufactured for affordability with lots and lots of automation. In most cases the automation is a life saver ... Read More »
Movie Film Cleaning Example
Typically only a few of the legacy 8mm family home movie films that come to us benefit from film cleaning. We have observed that film reels that have been kept in a cardboard box or metal film can through the decades will be in superlative condition. Cleaning will typically not benefit these films. ... Read More »
