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. These considerations are applicable to regular 8mm, Super 8mm, as well as 16mm film conversion and ... Read More »
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Daylight and Indoor Film distinctions
From the early nineteen thirties, 8mm and 16mm home movie film was available in a number of different types with alpha designations ranging from A through K. However, there were two fundamental choices the home movie film hobbyist had to deal with—Indoor or Outdoor film type. If the immediate ... Read More »
How Viewable are Dark Areas
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. These considerations are applicable to regular 8mm, Super 8mm, as well as 16mm film conversion and ... Read More »
Home Movie DVD Packaging
At W. Cardone Productions the home movie transfers that we do are packaged using professional graphics coordinated between the DVD case dust cover, DVD disk label, and the DVD interactive menuing system. Similar packaging is done for audio transfers to CD such as 78rpm and LP records, cassette ... Read More »
Did I Get All of My Frame?
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. These considerations are applicable to regular 8mm, Super 8mm, as well as 16mm home movie film conversion ... Read More »
What’s All This Frame-by-Frame Stuff, Anyhow?
Years ago a knowledgeable associate of ours (Thomas Video Studio) in Eau Claire, Wisconsin) carefully inspected the projectors offered by an impressive company in Texas. They completely rebuilt projectors, widening or removing the framer windows, reinventing the transmission to allow for the “snap ... Read More »
