Film transfers of Super 8 to DVD, Standard 8 to DVD, 16mm to DVD. And, we can still do transfers to video tapes.
Pricing ()
for the first half hour (minimum fee).
Plus
per additional half hour.
Plus cost of blank media.
(The time periods are the running times of the film, not the work time involved to handle the films—sorting, threading, set-up, rewinding, etc.)
Supported media (source or recording)
- Standard 8 (magnetic sound)
- Super 8 (magnetic sound)
- 16 mm (optical or magnetic sound)
- VHS
- S-VHS
- VCD
- SVCD
- DVD+/-/R/RW
Notes
- The small 50 foot (film length) Super 8 spools (those 3″, or 7·4 cm, diameter ones that you get back from the lab after having a single film developed) are usually around three to four minutes long. The medium sized 60 metre (or 200′) length spools, as pictured above, last about fifteen minutes. And the large 120 metre (or 400′) length spools last for around thirty minutes.
- Standard 8 running times are slightly different. The small (50 foot single-8 or 25 foot double-8) 8 mm movie film spools (3″, or 7·4 cm, diameter) are usually around four to five minutes long. The medium sized spools (60 metre, or 200′) run for around 17 minutes.
- More details about working out film lengths can be read on our film running length tables page.
- If you want films in a specific order, then number your spools. Alternatively, we can can copy all films to hard drive, and you can pick the order that they'll be put onto a DVD. Though this can be time-consuming to sort out, and each disc will take 10–15 minutes to burn.
- We'll keep the film clips on the drive for a few days, if space permits, and you can get extra copies with films in the same order, or rearranged, for less than the cost of the original film transfers. Get back in touch with us promptly if you want more discs.
- Generally, we copy films to DVDs in high quality mode, which allows approximately one hour per disc. We can also use standard quality mode, which allows approx two hours per disc. Lower quality modes are not recommended.
- When lots of little clips are put on a disc, some of the disc space is used for managing the files, and the disc has less space left available for video (e.g. perhaps only 50 minutes of films will fit, instead of an hour). Also, it can be cumbersome to find the clip you want in the menu of a disc with a very large number of clips, so it can be more convenient to spread lots of clips across a few discs.
- Most jobs completed in a few days.
- Film transfers to video aren't as good as the original media (see film transfer info).
- Recorded DVDs mayn't play back in all DVD players (see DVD formats info).
- Film transfers that need extensive editing may need to be compiled on video tape before burning to DVDs.
Copyrighted material cannot be reproduced without permission. That means getting permission from the holder of the copyright (those who created the works). It does not refer to asking your friend if they don't mind you copying some movie that they bought. They cannot give you permission to copy it, they don't hold the copying rights. Do not ask us to copy some copyrighted movie. We cannot do this, even if it was one that you've bought.