GO DIGITAL BEFORE IT'S GONE FOREVER Movie film deteriorates over time and without warning your films could be lost forever. Let Digital Express reverse the clock and digitally restore them to their former glory. Transferring your films to a digital format is a vital part of preservation and will help safeguard your collections for future generations to enjoy.

Digital Express recently started selling on eBay, but has been transferring 8mm film to DVD for the past 4 years. We decided to expand our services through eBay auctions, to improve our exposure in the film transfer business, and to gain new customers with hopes of earning your trust and future business. Many people have said, I have boxes of these films and have no idea what's on them. I purchased a movie projector in hopes of watching my films to choose the reels I wanted to put on DVD only to discover the projector didn't work. It would be great if I had a way to preview the films before transferring to DVD or a way to determine in what order I wanted them transferred.  So why spend all that extra money on old movie technology that no longer works properly and could damage your films beyond repair or transfer. Have your 8mm film transferred to an express video at $2.95 per 50 ft. reel for previewing before you make the transfer to DVD. Want to preview your films to get them in the right order to transfer to DVD, and want the express video for putting up on your own family website, get it all for $9.95 per 50 ft. reel. Already know what's on your 8mm films, just want them transferred to DVD without any preview. Get our special price at $8.95 per 50 ft. reel. That's only $0.179 cents per foot. Digital Express Video Production Studio is a Pennsylvania based small video production company specializing in the transfer of silent regular 8mm movie film, and super 8 movie film. We provide our customers professional quality transfers that will go well beyond your expectations. All of our services are performed in house and tailored to your needs with the ultimate care and quality in mind from the time your materials arrive at our door. At Digital Express we take great pride in our transfer techniques and offer you professional quality, fast service, honest pricing, and look forward to serving you. Express Video eBay Auction Promotion! $2.95 (3 inch) 50 ft. reel of 8mm movie film transferred to a Windows Media Video viewable online. This Auction Price is for a service to transfer up to 50 feet of silent regular 8mm or super 8mm movie film to a (.wmv windows media video) called an "Express Video". A three (3) inch film reel contains approx. 50 feet of regular 8mm or super 8mm film. If you have more than 50 feet of film to transfer to an express video, or are wanting to purchase an 8mm film transfer with or without preview to DVD do not bid on this auction; please email us at sales@digitalexpresspro.com or contact us with the "contact seller" link within this page with your total footage and we will provide you with a quote. If accepted, we will will provide you with a custom eBay auction. This Service also Includes at no additional fee: Pre-Production (working with your film) Film is cleaned to remove any dirt or ground-in particles providing a better picture scan. Film is lubricated with a special film chemical for smoother frame transfer and better quality picture. Film splices are repaired if required allowing for less stress to the film during transfer. True frame by frame progressive image scanning of your film at 525 lines, 60 fields NTSC at the highest standard definition resolution of 720 x 486 pixels. Each frame of film is now an individual digital frame of video sequentially lined up one after another and stored as an uncompressed digital video (AVI) file ready for export into our computer-based editing system. Post-Production (your film/s is put back on it's original reel and stored in a safe place) Video editing Because home movies from the past were shot at a variety of speeds, we must set the speed of the video to 29.97 fps for use in the NTSC television standard. With the total frame discretion that comes from TRUE, frame-by-frame scanning, accurate playback rates are determined and applied to the video. Video is then compressed using the WM Video V9 codec and saved as a (.wmv windows media video) digital video file called an express video. The express video will be available to you as an online preview and download. The Frame size is 240x180, one third the resolution of fullscreen video, has a streaming bit rate of 180kbps, and are viewable with Windows Media Player 9 and above. After viewing your express video you have the option of selecting which film reel if any that you would like to put on  a DVD at a reduced price of only $6.95 per 50 ft. (3 inch) film reel, calculated at $0.139 cents per foot. The option to do this must be done within 10 days once the preview is placed online for your viewing , due to the storage constraints of keeping your original scanned video files on our video storage drives. After 10 days, if you do not contact us, the original digital video files will be deleted from our systems. The section below only applies to customers that are purchasing a regular 8mm or super 8 film transfer to DVD. Removal of any clear or black film footage from the video file. Video is then computer enhanced for; correct white balance (color correction),  and any over or under-exposed areas of the film. Subtitles are created for each film reel video. An edited uncompressed digital video (AVI) file of your film is created. At this point your digital video file is of better quality than the original film/s you sent in for transfer. Audio editing If you have an Audio CD that you would like to use for the background music, just send it along with your films and let us know which songs to use. If you don't have any music, we will provide you with music from The O'Neill Brothers with OVER 300 beautiful, instrumental, royalty-free songs available for your background music. The complete edited uncompressed digital audio/video (AVI) file of your film and background music is created and exported for DVD creation. Final-Production (creation of the DVD) Import the (AVI) file and encoded to a High-Quality (MPEG-2) video file. Up to two (2) hours of film footage can be authored to the DVD disc. Main Title and Menu created. Chapter placement and Chapter Menus created. Authoring of the Movie, Menus, and Music to a standard 4:3 fullscreen Hollywood Style NTSC DVD, playable on the vast majority of set top DVD players in use today. We record to a 4.7 GB single layer Verbatim DVD-R DVD disc. Custom designed Photo Quality High Resolution DVD disc label is created and printed directly on the DVD disc. The finished disc is put in a Amaray DVD Case - The case is made of a soft, dark gray, plastic with a transparent outer jacket, behind the jacket is your custom designed and printed Photo Quality High Resolution label jacket insert. Return Shipping & Handling Fee Your finished DVD with case is packaged with your original films and shipped to you using the United States Postal Service, Priority Mail.  Free shipping/handling to anywhere in the United States with any order of (24) or more (3 inch) 50 ft. reels or any combination of reels totaling 1,200 feet or more. If purchasing just the express videos only your films are returned.   Number of (3 inch) 50 ft. reels Total film footage in feet   Price 1 to 12 50 to 600   $4.95 13 to 23 650 to 1,150   $8.95 24 and above 1,200 and above   FREE Shipping your film/s to us: We recommend using a shipping service such as the U.S. Postal Service, Express Mail for Tracking purposes or the U.S. Postal Service, Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation or First Class Mail with Delivery Confirmation. If transferring to DVD please choose a Title for your movie - if you don't tell us what title to use, we will use "A Journey of Memories", this will be displayed on the TV screen when the DVD starts, and also be printed on the DVD disc and case. If your not previewing your films and want your films to be played in a certain order, number each film box or reel with the correct order and mail your films along with any special instructions to: Digital Express 28 North Sixth Street Shamokin PA 17872-5210 If you have any questions please email us at sales@digitalexpresspro.com or contact us with the "contact seller" link within this page or call us at: 570-204-2106. Payment Methods: Once we receive your film/s we will review your order and verify all materials have arrived. You will receive an email confirming your order was received. Allow 5 - 7 business working days for completion. You can pay us using all four major credit cards, your bank account, or your PayPal account. We also accept cashiers checks, money orders, personal & company checks. Orders do not ship until funds are received and cleared. If sending check or money order make funds payable to Digital Express. What about your Guarantee or Return Policy? We guarantee our product to be free of any defects and offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If for any reason you are not satisfied with your 8mm film or super 8 film transfer, you may return the original DVD and have any problems corrected. We will send you a new DVD replacement with the corrections. Not one of our 8mm film or Super 8 film transfers have ever been returned for customer dissatisfaction. The condition of your 8mm or super 8 film relies on the quality of the transfer. If your materials are severely damaged beyond restoration or transfer, we will notify you prior to returning your materials. We do not cover the cost of returning films that cannot be transferred.   We DO NOT transfer any copyrighted materials unless you own the copyright or transfer any pornographic materials.   Tell me more about the Express Video? 8mm Movie Film to 'Express Video' - Once we have scanned your silent 8mm film or super 8 film to a digital video (.avi) file, it can be used to create a digital movie file called an "Express Video". The express video is produced for viewing with Windows Media Player 9 and above, a (.wmv) movie extension. You can download the express video file to your computer or view it online. To see if you can view an express video click here.  The express video is limited to a frame size of 240x180, that's about one third the resolution of a fullscreen video and has a streaming bit rate of 180kbps. These movies have been optimized for web viewing with increased compression, and lowered bit rates that are used for streaming video over the internet. Actual DVD quality would be much higher. We do not computer enhance any of the express video or add any music, it is the raw scanned video footage of your 8mm film with frame rate correction only (plays at the right speed). The express video is designed specifically for previewing your film. The average file size of the express video is around 5MB per each 50 ft. film. High speed internet connection recommended. If you want to send in a bunch of films to determine what to name them or which 8mm or super 8 films you want transferred to dvd or just want them like they are this would be your best savings. We will put these express videos up on our website, on a special page for your eyes only for viewing or downloading. If you are going to have a DVD video produced of these selected express videos, select which videos you want and get our special price of $6.95 per 50ft. film reel. That's only $0.139 per foot. The price is $2.95 for one (3 inch) film reel up to 50 ft. of silent 8mm film or super 8mm film. Playtime is approx. 3.5 minutes in length. If you have larger reels of 8mm or super 8 film you can multiply your total footage by $0.059 cents per foot to get a total cost. Our method of scanning 8mm or super 8 movie film At Digital Express we provide TRUE frame-by-frame, advanced 3CCD progressive scan imaging of both regular 8mm and super 8mm film to DVD NTSC video delivering stunning picture quality, highly accurate color reproduction, and a 100 % flicker free transfer. Transferring frame-by-frame ensures 100% frame accuracy for correct playback speed and the sharpest picture quality. We capture the film image off the emulsion side of the film through an enlarged film gate which allows us access to 100% of the film frame in 4:3 standard format. We can also capture your films in widescreen 16:9 format, but some of the picture will be cropped above and below the film frame due to the physical size difference of 8mm film and the widescreen aspect ratio. See our sample movie page to view our videos in fullscreen & widescreen formats. The film is scanned at a moderate speed of 6 to 8 frames per second using a sprocketless drive system that protects your films from the potential damage typically found on other sprocket driven projectors and transfer devices. The light source used to scan the film is a low wattage diffused bulb; no hot spots or chance of ever burning the film. The film is then digitized using a NTSC broadcast quality camera system with a separate progressive 1/3" scan CCD for each primary color (red, green and blue). Each CCD contains 680,000 pixels and together they deliver an unsurpassed image quality transfer you would only expect to find on a professional Rank Transfer.

This is a photo of a super 8 film cartridge that has not been photo processed. We do not photo develop 8mm movie film.

8mm Film - is a motion picture film format in which the filmstrip is eight millimeters wide. It exists in two main versions: the original standard 8mm film, also known as regular 8mm or double 8mm, and Super 8. This is a photo of a 3 inch reel of 8mm film that contains 50 feet of processed film. The actual playback time of this film on a 8mm film projector would be around 3 min. & 20 seconds if it was shot at 18 fps.

 

Standard 8mm - The film spools actually contained 25 feet of 16 mm film with twice as many perforations along each edge. When the film reached its end in the take-up spool, the camera was opened and the spool in the camera was flipped over and the film was exposed along the other side of the film. After processing, the film was split down the middle, and spliced together to give one 50 foot roll of 8mm wide film. Because the spool was reversed after filming on one side to allow filming on the other side the format was sometimes called Double 8. Normally Double8 was filmed at 16 frames per second. Common length film spools allowed filming of about 3 minutes to 4.5 minutes at 12, 15, 16, and 18 frames per second. The standard 8mm format was quickly displaced by the Super 8mm film format which offered cartridge loading, and a 50% larger frame size.   Super 8mm - simply called Super 8, is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older 8mm home movie format. The film is 8mm wide, exactly the same as the older standard 8mm film and also has perforations on only one side, but the dimensions of the perforations are reduced, allowing the exposed area to be increased in size. It featured a better quality image, and was easier to use mainly due to a cartridge-loading system which did not require re-loading halfway through. Super-8 film came in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet of film. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the U.S. motion picture professional standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second for home filmmakers use, for a total of approximately 3600 frames per film cartridge.

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A few of our completed disc & case transfer samples.

	Custom designed just for you! DVD Amaray Case is printed in color using high-resolution text, and photo quality graphics. DVD Disc is printed directly on the disc surface in color using high-resolution text, and photo quality graphics.

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