The Film Transfer Company South Bend
Pro Hollywood Restoration
Our Color Correction, Grain Elimination and Stabilization Technology is optional.
Most of our customers add the color correction and grain elimination technology. Those looking for for the very best will do all three which includes image stabilization.
Color correction is very important for amateur film because we will be able to recover more footage that was shot too dark or has darkened as part of the aging process. The scanner monitors the amount of light and will adjust it as needed. So, dark footage will be brightened and film that was overexposed will be darkened. This will allow us to recover footage than if we setup the light/color on the first scene and then scanned the rest of the film. True, you can color correct it yourself when you get it back but you can't recover footage that is too dark/light without adjusting it at scan time. That's the beauty of our 2 part color correction. So, the scanner will adjust light/color as needed during the scan. Then an editor will go through the footage looking at skin tone and things like the color of the sky to order to make sure it looks correct. You can see in the examples below how much better the images look with our 2 pass color correction.
Grain (see Before picture below) is on all film. These little dots muddy up the image and take away from the content you care most about. Now, look at the After picture on the right. This is what you really want to see. We do recommend Grain Elimination on all film.
Most amateur films have some stabilization issues just because of the way the film was shot. But, most people are used to seeing this on old movie film (See example video clip below). So, we see stabilization as a nice to have but not required. If you can afford to do it then we would recommend it. If it pushes you outside your budget then we would just recommend the Grain Elimination technology.
Super 8 Film Examples
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16mm Film Examples
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