This is a popular choice with customers who want to sit back and watch their home movies as a professional production. Your DVD transfer starts with a professional hollywood-style intro followed by your movie title, i.e. "The Williams Family Memories" shown as an opening title.

Each reel has a subtle fade into the next, and we place a chapter marker between each reel so you can easily jump from reel to reel with your remote control. Add a DVD menu to your order and you can name each reel, making navigation really simple.

DVD is compressed using the MPEG2 codec at 6.2 mbit/sec

We now offer full Apple compatibility for iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and AppleTV, support so you can take your movies with you and share them with your friends and family wherever you are.

Mobile files can be supplied on CD/DVD disc or Hard Drive.
So easy to use, just import your movies to your itunes (exactly as you would import songs from a CD). Synch your device to your computer, and your movies will be right there ready to enjoy - it's as easy as that!

To enjoy your iPad to it's fullest, you should consider having your cine film transferred in HD to take advantage of the High definition screen of your iPad.

We are often asked to recommend a good backup system for your cine film transfers, and always offer mini dv or DVCAM tape. These highly versatile, high quality, long-lasting formats allow you to easily edit your films at a later date, and the nature of the tape is very durable and far harder to damage than a DVD or Hard Drive.

DVCAM is a professional variant of the DV standard that uses the same codec. However, the greater track width lowers the chances of dropout errors. DV-Cam produces excellent quality pictures and is frequently used within the media industry. Those without access to a DVCAM player should opt for miniDV tape. To play these back to your computer, you just need any miniDV camcorder that your link up using firewire, and you're away.

Whilst many customers order AVI files for editing, which are great, you will find a miniDV or DVCAM tape a better permanent storage format. If you want to safely store this important film for generations to come, then this is your best option by far.

MiniDV & DVCAM are compressed using the DV codec at 28.81 mbit/sec

These formats are for editing the footage on your computer.
Both formats will work in all major editing applications, but as a general rule, AVI is best suited to Windows users & QuickTime is best for Apple Mac users. AVI & QuickTime use the DV codec so it's the same quality as miniDV and DVCAM.

For disc orders files are split into 18min files (no more than 4Gb in size)
Orders over 2 hours must go on a hard-drive that you provide.
Enter your reels into our order form and it will calculate how big a hard-drive you need.

What is an Image Sequence?
This exciting format utilises our scanning method to it's fullest by giving you, our customer, the individual cells of your film as individual photographs or 'images'. If you look closely at your cine film, you'll see it's made up of thousands of photographic cells - a small 50ft reel of 8mm film contains approx. 4300 cells! When we transfer your film, we scan each of these cells individually, and we're now able to give you these as separate image files.
We offer a choice of two styles for you to choose from which are explained below.

Why should I order the Image Sequence?
Because you will have an individual image file for every cell of your film, meaning you can extract any special moment from any point in the film, and use it in any way you choose...
Email them, print them, make a photo album - the possibilities are endless... and the quality is astounding!

In SD the image size is 720x576pixels

And you can drop the image sequence into editing software to build your own movie…

For just £50 we will split your DVD & Blu-ray into chapters (1 chapter per reel for cine film, with it's own title of upto 30 characters) and create a personalised menu screen to access them. Not sure what a DVD & Blu-ray menu is? Just think about the index page of a book. Touch the chapter you want to read and the book falls open at that exact page.

That's how menus work. A functionally essential tool to help you organise your films, and a beautiful visual enhancement if giving as a gift.

Imagine if your life flashed before you eyes... what would you see? Happy smiling faces, bursts of laughter, tears of joy, silly faces, hugs, kisses - pure happiness...

We call these "Highlights"

How does it work?
To order a Highlights chapter for your film, simply tick the highlights option and fill in the simple questions about music and dedications and leave the rest to us!

Our editors scrutinise your film for the best bits - the HighLights - and painstakingly put these together timed in to your favourite song, using slow-motion, black and white, and other eye-catching effects to create your very own Hollywood trailer of your life.

You can find a form to provide us your Highlights information at the end of the order if selected.

Why add pictures to my film?
You can enhance your enjoyment of your films even more by supplying us with a bunch of slides or photos that we can add at the end of your of films in form of a slideshow to summarize the experience.

If you wish to place the photos differently, at the start of the film for example, you can specify this in the additional notes section of the final order form print out.

On-screen titles are now available to really personalise your film. Perhaps it’s a dedication to a loved one, maybe you want to have the title of your film displayed such as

“The Smith Family Movies 1965-1975”

or maybe you want a title at the start of each decade. You could even have a title come up for every chapter saying the date, place and event for each one. Whatever use you find, titles can really add the professional touch.

You can have upto 2 lines per screen, maximum 30 characters per line.
£2.50 per screen.

What is this service for?
We offer the "draft copy" service to help you organise your reels into the right order and choose appropriate names for the chapter headings.

First, we transfer all your reels to DVD, making each reel it's own chapter - so if you have 12 reels, the DVD will have 12 chapters. We display a "Time Stamp", and current reel on-screen during the entire movie. So you don't have to worry about how to get your TV to display this information for you, it is ever-present so you always know exactly which reel is playing, and you make note of the exact time-code to request any changes to your film.

After watching the DVD with your family, you contact us with details of the exact order you want us to follow, deleting any reels you don't want included. At this stage you can also give each chapter a unique title for the DVD menu, and even add things like on-screen titles, dedications and messages for just £2.50.

If ordering on Blu-ray your final film will be produced on Blu-ray but drafts are supplied on standard DVDs

Why is there a charge?
On our current systems for transferring Cine Film, sound reels require 2 seperate transfers. Doing the transfer this way enables us to capture both video and sound at the highest quality possible.

While the reels are capturing, one of our transfer operators monitors the capture so that the sound and video can be matched back up without sync problems which can occur due to the variations of speed that cine could be filmed at.

Once captured, an editor will spend a large portion of time syncing the sound and video back together making sure it all matches up correctly whilst editing the video for splices, leader tape and colour correction.

The extra charge per hour is there to cover the extra time spent on this service which is approximately 3 times longer than a silent film transfer.

No Music Required - FREE
Some people prefer to leave their films silent for viewing. Choosing this option no sound track will be added to the final product.

We will collect your order via Fed-ex for just £8.50
or FREE if you spend over £50.
This can be your work or home address (UK only).
Collections can be arranged for non-uk addresses,
please contact us for prices.

You can arrange your own delivery to us.

Pricing for delivery varies on your location.

Delivery to UK Mainlands: £8.50
Delivery to Scotland - Highlands & Islands: £15
Delivery to N. Ireland, Isle of Man & Scilly Isles: £15
Delivery to Channel Islands: £15
Delivery to Republic of Ireland (southern ireland): £15
International delivery: Please email us for quote