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Alaska Business License #
712765
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Our basic
service is the transfer of motion film to digital video and helping people
preserve their memories in digital format for easy access and sharing. We
also want you to have realistic expectations about what can and can't be done.
The biggest limitation is the quality of end result image can not be any better
than the quality of the image started with. Certain things such as fading,
yellowing and other color shifts can be compensated for but there are trade-offs
and limits especially when dealing with motion film and video footage.
Making raw video or film footage or bunch of pictures more interesting and
exciting requires and involves being there time to do the editing and discuss
with the customer what to keep and what to cut and perhaps what to add. The
professional unit pricing for our services is directly related to the time and
involvement in specific work and reflect the costs and other economic factors
for the typical work we are asked to do. Our advertised unit
price points do obscure the unit price elasticity pertinent to
quantity discounting of unit prices for large work orders and higher
pricing resulting from work orders having extensive editing requirements.
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How much will it
Cost?
Prices do not include mailing costs. Mailing costs are exactly
what the post office, FedEx or UPS charges me to get your film and
finished transfer back to you. Our price
points reflect equitable
equipment, software and labor cost for converting not-digital film and
not digital video to digital video and expected editing that is
typically requested by our customers. We strive to keep our
price points
aligned with current fair inflation-adjusted market prices. Our daily operations, prices, and
equipment do not support mass duplication for retail distribution. |
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Service |
Unit Price |
| Transfer of 8mm, super8, 16mm silent film
footage to
unedited Digital Video. Price includes one copy of unedited
footage on mini-DV tape and one copy on digital Video Disc (DVD) with
menu and chapter jump points placed at either film splices, between
reels, or easily recognizable change of subject or event. Includes
film cleaning, splice repair, and as needed leader replacement. |
$0.25 per foot**
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a minimum charge of $50.00 if your footage is insufficient to result in
a per foot price equal to or greater than $50.00 |
| Transfer of super8 and 16mm film footage having a
recorded audio track to unedited Digital Video. Price includes one
copy of unedited footage on mini-DV tape and one copy on digital Video
Disc (DVD) with menu and chapter jump points placed at either film
splices, between reels, or easily recognizable change of subject or
event. Includes film cleaning, splice repair, and as needed leader
replacement. The increased price is due to pitch changes
compensation and audio video synchronization adjustments caused by frame
rate differences. |
$0.30 per foot**
**or
a minimum charge of $75.00 if your footage is insufficient to result in
a per foot price equal to or greater than $75.00. The increased
price is due to pitch compensation and audio video synchronization
adjustments caused by frame rate difference. |
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A simple edit conversion transfer of Beta, VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, 8mm and
3/4" Sony U-matic analog video to Digital Video. Price includes one
copy of unedited footage on mini-DV tape and one copy on digital Video
Disc (DVD) with menu and chapter jump points placed at easily
recognizable change of subject or event points that are indexed in the
start menu.
A conversion of analog video to DVD is two conversions.
An analog-to-DV converter is used to make a digital video copy and then
the digital video is compressed and encoded by software to MPEG-2 for
burning on a DVD. Any additional cost is determined upon chapter
and menu interactivity specifications and other editing desired beyond
the simple editing provided.
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$1.00 per playback minute**
**or
a minimum charge of $30.00 if your video
playback time is insufficient to result in
a per minute price equal to or greater than $30.00
Volume discount prices start after 60 playback minutes. |
| Additional copies of transfer on DVD.
Price include slim jewel case per disc. If your DVD will be copied
or replicated in large numbers, please e-mail for pricing. |
$6.00 each |
| Additional copies of transfer on mini-DV tape.
This is not a large volume service. |
$5.00 each |
| Photographs, slides and scanned
images to digital video. Includes one copy on mini-DVD tape and DVD.
Cost dependent upon editing and interactivity requested. Price per
photo is discounted after 50 photos/slides/negatives. |
$2.50 per photo, slide, and scanned image |
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Photographs, slides, and scanned images to a digital
slide show. Includes one copy on a Computer disk. Cost
dependent upon editing and interactivity requested. |
$2.50 per photo, slide, and scanned image
Volume discount prices start after 50 photos/slides/negatives. |
| Photographs, slides, and scanned
images best quality archived digitally on CD. Includes one copy on
a Computer disk. Pease note tiff image format is used unless
specified otherwise and file size are going to be large so maximum image
quality is preserved from the original. |
$5.00
per photo, slide, and scanned image
Volume discount prices start after 50 photos/slides/negatives. |
| Custom non linear editing requested
beyond menu and chapter points provided with unedited transfer services
identified above. The total project estimate cost will be determined and
agreed to by us and the customer prior to any work being done. The
estimate is based on the desired reasonable end result and quality of
the material provided. Some projects are more tedious and
difficult than others and sometimes original material lacks sufficient
image and quality footage to tell a story of a family, biography of a
person or an event. Technology can only do so much to preserve
memories that has deteriorated, faded, or has gotten worn and used
beyond useable condition. We edit footage provided by the customer
to make it more exciting, interesting, and enjoyable for the family to
watch. |
$75.00
per work hour These types of projects can get
expensive. The customer needs to weigh costs and benefits rather
than rushing into a project with more bells and whistles that doesn't
add quality or usefulness. |
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Preparing graphics (charts, photographs,
slides, scanned images) for inclusion into a manuscript by editing image
into publish friendly file format and appropriate image size,
resolution, and color mode.
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The Master Genealogist (TMG) genealogy
program may be used to create
pedigree, descendant and relationship charts, if a data file is
provided that TMG can read. Otherwise, data is manually
entered into the program to create charts. The customer gets
all data files after the project is completed.
- Have capability and ability to put together manuscripts in
acrobat files (PDF) for desktop publishing, however, the customer
needs to weigh cost and benefits before rushing into a project that
can get expensive.
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$75.00
per work hour These types of projects can get expensive.
The customer needs to weigh costs and benefits rather than rushing into
a project with extensive amounts of graphics that may not be used. |
Please read about how we determine our price points
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MasterCard, VISA, money order and personal checks are accepted
for payment of services. |
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| Motion film transfer is charged by the
foot. We transfer 8mm, Super8, and 16mm film to digital video tape
and digital video disc (DVD). These prices pertain to the transfer
of film footage unedited to mini-DV tape and DVD. There is a
minimum charge of $50.00 (silent footage) or $75.00 (footage with
recorded audio) if the footage you provide is not sufficient to result
in a per foot charge needed to cover material and labor costs involved
in doing a transfer. |
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There are 80
frames per foot on "regular" or "standard" 8mm film.
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There are 72
frames per foot on Super8 film.
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There are 40
Frames per foot on 16mm film.
A quick formula to
determine motion film running time is as follows:
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Here are some running
times for 8mm at different camera frame rates:
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16 fps: The most common 8mm frame rate is 16 fps. 50
feet of 8mm at 16 fps is 4 minutes 17 seconds.
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12 fps: The second most common 8mm frame rate is 12 fps.
50 feet of 8mm at 12 fps is 5 minutes 34 seconds.
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24 fps: This speed tended to be used for "professional"
productions which were to be optically printed to 16mm. 50 feet of
8mm at 24 fps is approximately equal to 100 feet of 16mm at 24 fps.
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18 fps: During the early 1960s an 18 fps marking began
to appear on some 8mm cameras and amateurs began to use it.
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18 fps: Super8 frame rate.
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Film GAUGES as a quick
reference:
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35mm
film is about 1 3/8
inches wide
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16mm
film is about 5/8 of
an inch wide
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8mm
film is about 1/3 of
an inch wide
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8mm, Super-8 and 16mm film have a
picture aspect of 4:3
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There are two
running times for 16mm film.
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Film
Measurement by Reel Diameter for 8mm or Super 8 Format,
(Single 8mm film is about 30% thinner than Super 8 film)
| 3
Inch Reel |
50 Feet of Film |
about 4 minutes of video |
| 5
Inch Reel |
200 Feet of Film |
about 16 minutes of video |
| 6
Inch Reel |
300 Feet of Film |
about 24 minutes of video |
| 7
Inch Reel |
400 Feet of Film |
about 32 minutes of video |
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Film
Measurement by Reel Diameter for 16mm Format at 18 Frames
Per Second
| 7
Inch Reel |
400 Feet of Film |
about 15 minutes of video |
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10 Inch Reel |
800 Feet of Film |
about 30 minutes of video |
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12 Inch Reel |
1200 Feet of Film |
about 45 minutes of video |
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13 Inch Reel |
1600 Feet of Film |
about 60 minutes of video |
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14 Inch Reel |
2000 Feet of Film |
about 75 minutes of video |
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15 Inch Reel |
2300 Feet of Film |
about 90 minutes of video |
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Two hours of analog VHS tape
recorded at standard play speed can hold approximately:
1200 feet of 8mm film,
1800 feet of Super 8mm film,
4000 feet of 16mm film
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3.6MB of storage space is needed for each second of digital video
put onto a hard drive recorded live directly from a digital
camcorder tape or copied from a recorded digital video tape.
This results in the need for 4GB of available storage space for
every 20 minutes of digital video.
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Once the digital video is
captured to the hard drive it can be edited and either put back
uncompressed onto video tape or compressed to burn onto a DVD or
encoded to be put on a server for video content playback over the
internet from a media server.
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Before compression and
encoding, a typical two hour broadcast quality movie would require
200 gigabytes (GB) to store on a computer, and about 225 megabits
per second (Mbps) to stream. The streaming requirement is
about 450 times the speed of a DSL connection, and about 4,000 times
the speed of a 56 kilobits per second (Kbps) modem connection.
After compression to VHS quality, the same movie would require
approximately 0.5 GB of storage, and only about 500 kbps to stream.
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A 4.7 GB DVD-5 can
hold approximate maximum of two hours of broadcast quality video using
data rates at or above 6.0 Mbps but not exceeding 9.0 Mbps. However,
depending on the data rate one minute of video can occupy anywhere from
180 to 588 MB and one minute of audio is about 11.5 MB so fitting all
assets of a complicated project within available disc space may not
result in being able to fit two hours of video on a disc. |
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Video tapes are marketed in playing time rather than tape length as
video can be recorded at two and sometimes three different recording
rates. The most common recording speed is Standard Play (SP) with the
other speed options being Long Play (LP) and Extended Play (EP).
Confusing the length issue regarding video tape is the video running
rate differences between international broadcast standards and video
formats such as Beta, VHS, Hi-8, mini-DC and others. Consequently,
actual video payback time is the only fair and reasonable means of
discussing video length on standard length video cassette tape. |
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