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My Life Remembered's 8mm and Super 8mm
conversion process is multi part.
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All films are cleaned with a lint free, glass cloth.
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Image is illuminated via projectors that have been
modified and customized by in house technicians.
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The film
gate has been enlarged. (Enlarging the gate exposes the
entire frame thereby exposing more of the image for
capture).
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Reduced
projection lamp. (Reducing the projection lamp, to a
maximum of 10 watts, reduces the heat and the heat related
damage associated therewith).
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Illumination lamp
and sprocket motor are wired into separate power supplies
thereby allowing for adjustment of sprocket speed without
affecting the illumination lamp.
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Audio
cables have been custom designed for receiver to speaker
reception. Video and
audio is transferred simultaneously thereby assuring
original synchronization.
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Image is projected into a
professionally designed transfer unit equipped with a premium,
optically correct, first surface mirror for rectification of
the image
and a condenser lens for image magnification; thereby
providing a crisp, clean image
for the camera to capture. Furthermore, while not
required , all projections takes place in a darkened projection room because controlling the amount of light
associated with the conversion is of the utmost importance.
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Image is captured via a high end, broadcast quality,
variable speed, digital camera equipped with a 3CCD system to provide quality transfers.
CCD is the abbreviation for "charge-couple-device", and
is often referred to as a "chip." The chip converts visible
light into an electronic signal, which the camcorder reads.
Professional camcorders, almost without exception, have
three CCDs, one for each primary color. The colors on
professional three-CCD camcorders are much brighter, vivid,
lifelike, and accurate than the colors of one-CCD
camcorders. A three-CCD camcorder almost always beats out a
one-CCD camcorder, and the difference in quality both in
normal and low-light shooting is noticeable.
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Digital data is transferred onto the hard drive of
high speed computers or the hard drive of a video capturing device.
Once data is on either of the hard drives then software allows for
appropriate editing.
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