nano lab's Telecine Transfer Service

Nano can now offer a telecine service to transfer your processed films to digital via our frame-by-frame film scanning system. We output to digital computer file only - not to tape. Cost is $20 per 50' of Super 8 or Standard 8 processed at the lab. This is a cheap and effective fixed price service yielding as good a quality as any frame-by-frame scanning system can produce.

nano lab can now offer an upload preview service!

In a desparate hurry to see your transfered footage? We can now 'upload' a compressed version of your rolls so that you can get an advanced peek at your footage. A 50' roll is compressed to approximately 11meg of data - so there is quite a bit of compression, but you can get a very good idea of what you got 'in the can' this way. Cost is $10 per 50' on top of the telecine charges.

Below are some sample images of actual super 8 frames captured (here shown reduced 50% and with JPEG compression):

Ektachrome 64T
Ektachrome 64T	Ektachrome 100D
Kodachrome 40

Our usual output is a DV codec '.avi' file (720 x 576 with PAL 1.094 pixles). This is a file size of abut 600 meg per roll. This can be at 18, 24 or 25 fps at your request (and if you don't let us know, we will do our best to guess!).

We are also able to provide multiples files of the same roll of film with the film 'rendered' to different filming speeds. This means that if you want to shoot some shots at 18 and some at 24 fps ON THE SAME ROLL you can. There is an additional cost of $5 per duplicate file.

Our transfers are always supervised and do not use an automatic iris for exposure control. This means that where there is a change in brightness between sceenes, we stop the transfer, back up the film, and start the transfer again with a new iris setting from the beginning of the shot. There may well thus be instances of shots, or parts of shots, transfered more than once with different exposure levels. Please let us know if you do not want this to happen and would rather have the iris changed 'on the fly'.

Please note, as with all frame-by-frame transfer systems, we cannot transfer the sound of sound films.

It is also worth noting that we can only get good results when transfering correctly exposed film. Under exposed film will show very high levels of grain, extreme colour saturation and greatly exagerated contrast. The resulting transfer will appear extremely 'blotchy' with burnt out high lights and very dark areas with not much in between. Here is an example of what under exposed film would look like transfered:

.	This 'blotchy' result is caused by underexposure.