We learned long ago the folly of trying to be all things to all people, yet with a business in one part of television (production) it’s inevitable that people, unfamiliar with the technology, assume that we do everything in television.
One of the topics which crops up regularly is film to DVD or digital file conversion. Often these requests come from our existing clients who, delighted with the wedding videos we’ve made for them, decide they’d like to have their parents wedding films converted to DVD. Often these films are 8mm or Super-8, the main formats available to amateurs 20 or 30 years ago. Until recently, most conversion of these formats involved projecting the film and recording the image on a video camera and none was satisfactory.
Now that’s all changed. Now there’s equipment which scans each frame of the film, much as a flatbed scanner does, and reconstitutes the scans into a digital file replicating the original film. The results are superb, colours as vivid as the original film and just as sharp; the images are stable and the exposure equal across the whole image – none of the “hotspots” projection systems produced.
PHP weddings doesn’t offer this service, but, as the saying goes, we know a man who does.
It’s a company called “CineFilm2DVD.com” in Northwich, Cheshire. There are other firms too but we recommend CineFilm2DVD.com because their service is thorough, they’re professionals, not hobbyists and their prices are very competitive. Many of their clients are broadcast television companies. Perhaps most important of all, they’re enthusiasts and have worked in film for as long as we’ve been in video – and, before you ask, no, we’re not on commission!
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