All You Want To Know About The Cine Film Factory
We have written this Blog to provide more information about our Film Transfer service of what we think our Customers would like to know.
Who is The Cine Film Factory and what services do you provide?
1. The Cine Film Factory is located in Sunny Worthing West Sussex (By The Sea) our CEO/Managing Director is Simon Papouis started The Cine Film Factory many years ago after growing up enjoying the special magic of 8mm Cine Film understanding In his words “Understanding with huge interest the migration between Analogue to Digital Media`s” wanting everyone to be able to have access to this migration.
Simon recalls as a teenager spending many Rainy Winter Sundays with his Family in Ferring, West Sussex, watching his Father dust off & crank up the Eumig Super 8 Projector and settle down to relive his & his families precious 8mm Film Collection witnessing for himself the magical experience of emotion & connection brought from these precious memories.
It was those moments in time where like a switch in Simon`s mind The Cine Film Factory was born as he understood having a strong explorative Digital Background decided there must be a more straightforward way to enjoy 8mm Film rather than risk any further damage to such treasured memories, it was then Simon realised how much old media there was to bring into the Digital future, and from that point we have grown in to the Business we are Today having Transferred all Media for Customers from every inch of the United Kingdom.
How long will it take for you to complete a job?
2. As we are an Internet Business we are receiving a wide audience of Customers on a Daily basis from around the UK & our transfer times vary from 5 Working Days to 2 Weeks depending on current cycles of transfers taking place.
Our most common question is how long will my film collection take to complete as we say to all customers once we confirmation of readiness to proceed we will be able to confirm our transfer diary.
We have customers who come to us with special events happening, it may be 50th Wedding Anniversary, Birthday Celebration Etc we always accommodate special requests & even have a fast track system in place to ensure special events are catered for in plenty of time for the special day.
What formats can a film be transferred to?
3. We offer 2 transfer services here at the Cine Film Factory & having been in the film production transfer Business for many years understand no job is ever the same & almost 99.9% of our customers have differing specific requirements.
Service 1 is a transfer of all Film media to DVD-Video this is a no hassle way forward whereby Customers are comfortable with their Content & just want to digitally preserve footage, sit down in a comfortable chair on a rainy afternoon and watch the films via DVD/Blu ray player on TV and Enjoy, we set the DVDs up beautifully with animated menus coordinated themes etc examples of this can be found by following this look to our editing page on our Website.
Service 2 is a transfer of all Film media to Digital Video Files, we have some very comprehensive software that allow us to cater all Video file types available to date, the most popular types are Video files to work on Windows Operating Systems & Apple Mac computers, however we have transferred 1930s footage in the past to Apple I Pads in full HD which showcase beautifully on Apples Retina Screen.
Depending on the amount of Film media to transfer we will recommend the best storage solution for our Customers transfers, this may be Data DVDs USB Flash drives for smaller orders & larger orders we would supply External Hard Drives.
Another option we offer is external hard drive to hold content being specifically catered towards Customers who would like to connect to Home TVs via USB port this is a very popular service as it gives our Customer the opportunity the same as DVD Videos to sit back & enjoy without the worry of losing DVDs Etc however also giving the opportunity to connect to Home PC if they wish to edit some content themselves. we call it having the Best of both worlds.
What type of equipment is used in the film transfers?
4. All our transfers are carried out in House un like some of our competitors we are not a middle man Transfer Business taking Films from Customer & shipping out to a third party Business to transfer.
All our transfer systems especially our 8mm Cine Film Transfer Units & 16mm Transfer units have all been specifically built over the many years by us & we have ironed out issues years ago & our transfer units are very fine tuned machines which make our transfers Today look wonderful.
An interesting point is our Systems have now been patented as they are unique to us & we are not ruling out in the future selling our units to the Transfer Market as we often have enquiries from competitors & people looking to start up if we can supply our Transfer units for 8mm Film - Super 8 - Regular 8 & 16mm.
What We & Our Customers love about our transfers is the Organic Rawness of the 8mm footage, we do not take away from the natural look that 8mm Cine Films provide leaving the natural graininess by introduce intensive colour to 8mm which takes so much form the original film & let's remember part of the experience is for our Customers to remember there footage along with how they remember the nostalgic images they remember form the 8mm projector.
We love to showcase some of our projects on our Website & a direct link to our 8mm Cine Film Transfers & 16mm HD Transfers can be viewed by clicking on the following link :-
How much film can fit on a DVD?
5. In relation to transfer times on DVDs this varies as to the media so for example 8mm Cine Film Transfers we never extend over 1 Hour Per DVD the reason for this is DVD cramming of footage over 1 Hour will only result in loss of resolution from the transfers as the DVD will look prior to Burning to compensate Data space saving & will lessen the quality hence we do not extend periods over 1 Hour, Regards other Formats we Transfer VHS - VHS-c - Hi 8 - Video 8 - Mini DV these do have flexibility for longer run times as we use different systems for these resolution lose is not really noticeable to the natural eye.
What is the quality like?
6. The qualities all depend on what the condition of the original media is like, our transfers will always give a fresh shiny feel to Transfers, however we are all limited to correction of poor focusing, however we have manual systems in place were we can correct 8mm Cine Film Transfers & 16mm Film Transfers & 9.5mm Film Transfers with manual adjustments of exposure to brighten up dark under exposed frames within film also we use stage filtering as with much of the 8mm Cine Film we have seen over the years this has been shot in Tropical Climates which of course exposes the recording Film this takes of the intense brightness which detracts from the filmed subject matter, let's not forget the Film Cameras were very basic for the Day, not having the sophisticated technology of Today's Video Cameras.
We love to showcase some of our projects on our Website & a direct link to our 8mm Cine Film Transfers & 16mm HD Transfers can be viewed by clicking on the following link :-
Why choose your services?
7. Simon`s early Vision when starting up The Cine Film Factory, having complete understanding of how precious these Video memories are to people and we have a policy that we treat customers Films as if they were our own, therefore we have procedure in place & believe communication with our customer is part of the foundation to our success.
We keep in touch with our customer right through from acknowledgement of receipt of Films upon Delivery through the Transfer stage through to Dispatch whereby we use a secure courier to return films & customer is updated via email with Tracking information to ensure they know where their Films are until they are delivered to their Doorstep.
Our chosen Courier also send s text alerts to the customers with notification of a Delivery time on the Day of Delivery.
We understand that everyone has different requirements & we are always happy to talk through production of Transfers prior to committal, we in fact encourage this as we have so much to offer that we can assist our customers with many suggestions they may have not though to ask or may have though impossible.
An interesting read for any customer looking to use us is our dedicated customer testimonial page which sums up our past customer experience on our service a direct link to our dedicated testimonial page can be found by clicking here :- https://cinefilmfactory.co.uk/testimonials/
Secret of the Sony Walkman as reminisced by Simon & Customer Recently
The tiny, elegant Sony Walkman launched in 1979, revolutionised how we listened to music & holds fond memories for our founder Simon Papouis as can be seen a young Simon in the 1980s enjoying whilst on Holiday in the Gambia.
The Walkman was the I phone of its day - a product so iconic it helped to define a decade. Developed by the Japanese electronics company Sony in the 1970s and Launched worldwide in 1979, it went on to be a symbol of the Eighties' new-found affluence, consumerism and solipsism. Before the Walkman, portable music had meant lugging around boom boxes the size of large suitcases.
These elephantine pieces of equipment required vast amounts of juice to power their two large, loud speakers, earning them the nickname, "ghetto blasters." If you were unwise enough to take them anywhere without a power supply then you burnt through piles of expensive batteries in a matter of a couple of hours.
The Walkman, tiny, elegantly modernist and utterly personal, changed all that.
Unlike the boom box, it was truly individual and truly portable.
Legend has it that the very first device was built in 1978 by Sony engineer Nobutoshi Kihara for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who wanted to be able to listen to operas during his frequent trans-Pacific plane trips. The -Walkman was certainly liberating.
Suddenly you could listen to music pretty much anywhere, at home, on your way to the office, on a train or plane, or in the gym. And you were in little danger of running out of batteries before the end of a song. Furthermore, its size allowed people to carry many more cassettes with them.
Playing music through a boom box was arguably a more convivial way of enjoying music, but the Walkman showed us new ways to share music. In part because of it the mix-tape was born, with friends and lovers giving cassettes containing their favourite music to one another.
Before long the Sony Walkman had become one of those must have items.
A particularly sought after model was the Sony Walkman Professional', used by DJs for the famous Eighties beach parties held by proto-ravers in Ibiza and Goa. Even today they remain collectable' A model in half-decent nick will set you back €150 on Ebay.
The Walkman was also arguably the first wearable piece of technology.
Boom boxes had to be carried around, and although some were able to do this with real panache, levering them onto their shoulders like the star of a mid-Seventies reggae album, most people couldn't wait to set them down. The Walkman could be comfortably
attached to your belt, or if it was an especially stylish model, dropped casually onto the table of a restaurant or pub, in much the same way as people do with their flagship phones today.
For more than two decades the Walkman reigned supreme. What eventually killed it off was ultimately what has helped to fatally wound the music industry - the digitising of music and the MP3. Then Apple came up with the iPod - an MP3 player that was easy to use, could hold thousands of songs and never needed a battery replacing - the Walkman suddenly looked very old-fashioned. Now even the iPod is on its way out as ever more people favour a single device to cater for their potable entertainment needs.
We recently reminisced about mix-tapes and Walkman's. We said that when we first saw the technology, it struck us as utterly magical. "Now we carry our record collection, satellite w, several hundred books, telephone and directory, sat-nav, camera, reprohouse, word processor, calculator! newspapers and magazines all in something the size of a packet of cigarettes.
But where is the magic?"
More Transfers Underway
Well what a Week it has been, our new Website was launched last week (Big Shout Out to Majken & the Say digital Team) We are thrilled with the site Thanks Guys!
So we have been receiving many Customer Orders this Week all 8mm Cine Film which is great, gives us the opportunity to use our recently serviced 8mm Transfer units & they are running beautifully & The Transfers are looking wonderful, Long live Kodak Kodachrome!
Welcome!
We are delighted to share with you The Cine Film Factory`s brand new Website for 2015.
This like our Business is a fresh representation from our old Website and allows us to showcase even more of our transfer work.
We are on a continued campaign to get Britain transferring & hope that you find the content of our website helpful in assisting you with all aspects of our transfers, providing you with all the information you require to get things underway.
Part of our Vision was to indulge into Social Media more than we had done previously, as many of our industry colleagues Worldwide use Twitter & Facebook to keep Restoration & Transfer Alive & with this our Customers will have access to Social Posts within our Website.
We will be making Regular Announcements & Competitions & Special Offers via Social Media Facebook & Twitter so be sure to keep an eye on our Blog
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