Copy / Convert Your Cine Films to AVI Editable Files
A popular request for cine transfer is to have the cine films transferred to AVI format files. AVI files are the uncompressed souce material obtained from your film scan. With these computer files you'll be able to edit your cine film transfer with your own editing software.
All film formats 16mm, 8mm, Super 8 and Standard 8 can be easily transferred to editable AVI files.
AVI files are generally most suited to customers who are PC based.
Different editing software packages make use of different file types, please make sure your software has the ability to edit AVI files.
Due to the amount of data these files contain it is not possible for us to transferr AVI files to a set of DVD ROMS. We ask for AVI cine transfer you supply us with a portable hard drive to capture the AVI cine files.
The hard drive should be supplied to us at the same time as the material to be transferred
Please ensure your hard drive has a minimum speed of 7200rpm and that you supply it with a power supply.
Although many are USB driven we have found that some do not work without a power supply.
The drive should have connections for either Firewire 800, Firewire 400 or USB 2 for Quicktime files
or USB 2.0 if you require AVI files
Make sure that it is clean and does not have any other files on it
Ensure that it is formatted ready for us to use, NTFS for AVI or MPEG 2 files for use with a PC.
The drive should have 15GB free for every hour of AVI files to be transferred
Our VAT inclusive fees for cine home movie AVI transfer are:-
- The first 50ft £25.00
- Each 50ft reel (4 minutes) £6.00
- Each full 100ft reel (8 minutes) £8.50
- Each full 200ft reel (16 minutes) £17.00
- Each full 400ft reel (30 minutes) £34.00
- Each simple title £3.50
- Each film break repair £1.00
- 8mm sound supplement +50%
- Return Post & Packing at cost, Recorded or Special
- Please note that we only charge for the actual length of film not the reel size
- 8mm / 16mm Scanning to high end formats such as HDV, DVCAM, BetaSP & DigiBeta also available. Please ask for costs.
- Film archiving storage solutions on Gold media. Please our Gold Archive page for details.