DID YOU KNOW?
Over time, the magnetic particles on video tape that make up the picture and sound on your video begin to lose their bond.
In addition, you can also permanently damage your video during simple playback.
DVD allows you quick access to priceless memories that you can watch over and over with easy operation and navigation.
Deterioration: The degradation of videotape, most typically with the binder, which is responsible for holding the magnetic particles on the tape and facilitating tape transport. |  |
DID YOU KNOW?
That an S-Video cable is one of the high quality methods of transmitting a television signal from a device such as a DVD player, Camcorder, VCR, or a game System,
An S-Video cable separates the color information (Chrominance) from the brightness (Luminance), which prevents ghastly things like color bleeding.
By using the yellow RCA video jacks, you are forcing your DVD player to down-convert all that great picture information.
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That audio-DVD is so much better than audio CDs,
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That we have some video equipment for RENT?
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Helical scan is a method of recording video information on a tape resulting in recorded parallel tracks that run diagonally across the tape from one edge to the other?
EIAJ- Standard tape format for 1/2" VTRs after 1969.
EIAJ: Electronics Industry Association of Japan
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Regular-8 is also
known as standard-8,
double-8, cine-8, normal-8
or 8mm. This film size was
introduced in 1932.
Old cameras ran at
15 or 16 FPS
[frames per second] |  | DID YOU KNOW?
Super-8 was introduced in 1965.
Fuji also made Single-8 cameras,
using a different camera
cartridge, but using film that can
be shown on the same projectors.
The cameras normally run at [18 FPS] |  |
16mm was introduced in 1923.
The early home movie cameras
ran at 15 or 16 FPS. With the
advent of sound in the 1930s,
commercial 16mm film began
to be exposed at 24 FPS which
is still the standard for sound
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Film/Home Movies FAQ
What is that stuff that looks like giant snowflakes in the lighter areas of the film?
Fungus. This arises if the film has been stored in a warm and damp location. The fungus grows in the gelatin emulsion layer of the film, where the image is. Since the gelatin has been eaten by the fungus, and replaced by fungal waste products, it is not possible to remove this.
Why does my film smell like vinegar?
The cellulose acetate film base is starting to decompose, known as "vinegar syndrome," releasing acetic acid. This can fade the image and get the rest of the roll started going bad also. Store the film in the open air or in a can that has holes drilled for air circulation, but still in the dark, and get it transferred to video as soon as possible.
The rolls of 8mm said on the box they were 25 feet, but I was charged for 60. What gives?
Regular-8, or double-8, spools of film were 25 feet in the double width as used in the camera, plus 4 feet on each end for subdued light loading, mid-roll turnover, and unloading. This is a total of 33 feet of film (the same width as 16mm but with different perforations.) The film is run through the camera twice to expose both edges. After developing, the lab slits it down the middle and splices it together to yield actual 8mm film for projection. Commonly the length might be 55 or 60 feet including a few feet or more in the beginning, middle and end that is fogged. Someone loading the camera in the dark and developing it himself could get up to 66 feet of finished film. 8mm metal-magazine cameras, and all super-8 cameras, can only yield an actual 50 feet or so.
I sent in a 200 / 400 foot roll of film on a 5" / 7" reel but was charged for 300 / 600 feet. Why?
A given size reel holds a known footage of normal acetate base film such as made by Kodak. If your film is thin-base Fuji polyester type, it is 1/3 thinner so 50% more will fit on the same size reel. We charge by actual measured length, not by reel diameter or theoretical length.
The first half of the 8mm roll is black. What happened?
Someone didn't read the instructions and ran the regular-8 film through the camera once instead of twice. Since the roll was sent to the lab the wrong way out, this results in the first half of the finished spliced film (instead of the second half) being black. Since the special spool that came with the camera is now lost (that has "Film when on this spool is only half exposed" marked on it) probably everything shot after this will have either black halves or double-exposed halves. (See next section)
The film is double exposed (triple exposed) (quadruple exposed). What happened?
Someone didn't read the instructions (see previous section) and lost the special 8mm camera spool. So they no longer can keep track of whether the film is exposed once, twice, 3x or more. This results in inadvertent comical double-exposure effects.
Many of the images are sideways, with heads on the left and feet on the right, or vice versa. How come?
The film was shot by a still photographer who hadn't used a movie or video camera before. He is used to turning the camera on its side to shoot portraits of people. It doesn't occur to him that you can't easily also turn the projector or TV on its side to view it correctly. This could be maybe fixed by someone with access to digital video effects manipulation equipment, rotating it 90?.
The film image is very dark, red-orange with hardly any other color, and streaky. What happen?
The camera was threaded incorrectly, with the dark side and not the light side towards the lens.
The film is all biased blue and excessively cold. Why?
Either tungsten balance film was used outdoors without the daylight correction (No. 85 or type A) filter, or else the correct daylight balance film was used outdoors but with the tungsten correction (type 80B) filter wrongly in place.
The film goes out of focus when the cameraman zooms in. What's up?
The distance was set incorrectly when filming. When you zoom in, you have less depth of field so the focus gets much worse. This commonly results when someone is trying to focus through the lens by judging eyestrain, and the eyepiece focus is incorrect.
Everyone is walking backwards. What causes this?
The camera was held upside down when filming. When the film orientation is corrected top for bottom, screen action is backwards. Someone (we) could maybe fix this by going ahead and running the film upside down to get normal action, and then having it rotated 180? by someone with access to digital video effects manipulation equipment.
The film is supposed to be 8mm, but it is twice as wide with two sets of images, one set upside down?
This was regular-8 film developed perhaps in someone's bathtub, by someone without access to a film slitter. Never fear, Film & Video can slit and splice the film for you at nominal cost. However, since we have no knowledge of how many times the film has been rewound, we can't tell any more which side is the first half and which is the second. So it is 50-50 that it will be out of order.
The drugstore will transfer the film for a lower price. Why does your service cost slightly more?
We inspect the film, replace bad splices and remove damaged portions, and clean and lubricate it, before it goes to the transfer machines. Then, we actually monitor the film while it is running instead of going off to do something else. This way we can check and correct for focus, going out of frame, hairs in the gate,
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