FILM TRANSFERS.

Something Different uses a method scanning the film frame by frame. Frame by frame scanning, as the name suggests, means each single frame of film is scanned. These scans are they compiled into a video file and played back to make a video. If you are considering getting your old films converted, please make sure that you ask what method the company uses prior to going ahead. Ask what equipment they use. You should get straight answers to all these questions. If you don’t then ask yourself why?.

Something Different offers the highest quality film transfers to DVD in the United States. We provide our services to individuals and businesses for every almost every film format available.

Something Different’s DigitalDirect™ Film Transfers are individual scans of each individual frame of your 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm and 35mm film. Each frame is scanned using Something Different’s DigitalDirect™ process scans each film image above broadcast quality.

DigitalDirect™ offers breathtaking clarity using a 3CCD image scanner. DigitalDirect™ image scanning means your transfers are 100% Digital, crystal clear and razor sharp from corner to corner.

This is not the film transfer you will find at national photo chains, nor is it the transfer you will find at the local basement video guy. Your footage is beautiful and stunning. It looks better on DVD than it ever did on the projector.

High-quality digitization is important. However, what is also important is how your film is prepared for digitization. Our in-town team of experts apply as much care and attention to preparing your film as they do when digitizing. That’s the Something Different difference.

With years of experience cleaning, preparing and salvaging deteriorated film, we can deal with issues such as damaged reels, broken splices, “vinegar syndrome” or simple wear and tear.

Our processes minimizes the risk of damage to your film and give you the best chance to restore your content to peak visual quality.

Something DIfferent’s film digitization services have been used by many significant institutions, including the Elvis Presley Enterprises, Fox, the University of Kansas and the Missouri Government.

From one can of film to an entire archive, we can help you digitize your collection today so that it is accessible and ready for the future.

We Also Serve Many of the Following Types of Companies:

• The Library of Congress, Museums, Libraries and Schools;
• Broadcast TV Stations
• Film Libraries
• Chambers of Commerce’s
• County Historical Society’s
• The Library of Congress
• Newspapers
• Video Production Companies
• Individuals

Our DigitalDirect™ Film Transfers Offer:

• Better than broadcast quality
• 100% Digital
• 100% Flicker Free
• Crystal clear detail
• Impeccable Sharpness and Contrast
• Beautiful Rich Color No Hot Spots (uneven distribution)
• Blank Film or White Leader Film Edited Out
• No Motion Blur, or Image Blending
• No Streaking
• No Out of Focus Edges
• Damaged film repaired
• Film plays at regular playback speed (not slowed down)
• Mixing of Formats Available (8mm, Super 8 & 16mm) on the same DVD
• Beautiful Music (All License Fees Paid) Not Awful Stock Music
• Output to Multiple Formats such as DVD, MiniDV, Digital 8, DVCPro & Betacam SP and more is available.
• All Finished products are Masters, not inferior dubs or copies
• Top Grade A+ Media
• Hollywood Style DVD

Elegant DVD Packages May Also Include:

• Elegant DVD Packages May Also Include:

  • Chapter Markers for each reel;
  • Animated Menus and Scene selections
  • Hollywood grade encoding for highest quality on DVD
  • Beautiful DVD and Cover
  • Themed Menus
  • Scene Selections

 We Transfer the Following Formats:

• 8mm 
• Super 8 
• Standard 8 (Regular 8, Normal 8 or Double 8)
• Fujifilm Single-8 system
• Polaroid Polavision 
• Double Super 8
• Widescreen Super8 and Max8
• 8mm Loop Film
• Technicolor Magi-Cartridge (Silent & Magnetic)
• 16mm film (Silent, Magnetic & Optical)
• Super 16 mm,
• Super 16,
• 16 mm Type W
• Ultra 16mm
• 35mm
• 35 mm spherical
• Super 35 mm
• 35 mm anamorphic
• Super 8 (Silent and Magnetic Track 1 & 2)
• 35mm film (silent only)
• Fairchild MoviePaks
• Videotronic Cartridges
• Polavision Video Cartridges
• Technicolor Magi-Cartridge (Silent & Magnetic)

Sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or technologically synced sound synced to image, as opposed to a silent film. 

• Magnetic Sound Film
• Optical Sound

Something Different can  professionally and safely digitize virtually any motion picture film format and audio tape, videotape formats. We don’t just transfer your content to a DVD or hard drive and call it a done. We understand the importance of quality, standards, and demonstrating strength and integrity of the preservation process.

We are are archival specialists who understand the preservation needs of archives, our practices and processes have been developed in line with global best-practice.  Our digitization services comply with the guidelines set out in the IASA TC-04 standard.

16MM FILM REEL SIZES & 8MM FILM REEL SIZES BY DIAMETER

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Something Different will preserve the long-term survival, profitability and accessibility of your media content in your library, contact Something Different using the contact form below or call us at 913-444-3000.