Cleaning Cine Film For Transfer to DVD or Digital - 8mm & 16mm
If you have looked after your films, stored them correctly and run them through well cared for projection equipment your films probably won't need cleaning.
But if over the years your cine films have been stored badly perhaps in damp or dusty conditions or subject to extreme temperature changes they may need cleaning and restoration.
We offer a cleaning service for your films which will both clean, lubricate and condition your cine film. As a second stage process to the cleaning of the film we use a quality film wax which helps to prevent future film scratch lines, and also helps to hide light scratch lines and reduce the appearance of heavier film lines.
The cleaning of super 8, standard 8 and 16mm film will improve the sound quality of the film soundtrack if present. The film cleaning is suitable for both magnetic and optical film soundtracks.
As film cleaning helps to preserve the film for long term storage it will ensure that your films will be future proof for what ever new multimedia formats may emerge in the future.
If cleaning is performed at the time of transfer to DVD then you will know that the quality of the overall transfer will be the best that can be obtained from your film.
The cost of film cleaning is 5p per foot for all formats.
One of our most challenging restoration jobs was a film which a dog had chewed into 30 pieces, one of our technicians patiently restored the film, transferred it DVD, enabling the client to tell us which order the pieces should appear!