Colour correcting cine film
Colour correcting cine film.
Picture above showing colour correction. The window on the left shows the picture before colour correction.
Colour correcting cine film.
We are at present in the process of scanning 16mm film to digital files. The customer is Eastbourne Borough Council.
Heritage Eastbourne Have supplied us with around 8 x 16mm cine films for conversion to DVD and digital files.
The 16mm film has an optical sound track. This looks like a clear strip down one side of the 16mm, with wavy black lines on the track.
Our 16mm scanning method.
The 16mm film is scanned vis LED light and captured via an HD camera housed into the scanner. The digital output is transferred to our Apple Mac editing computer via HDMI connection. This method of scanning cine film produces no flicker. Also due to the nature of the diffused LED light source. There are no hot spots in the scanned video file.
Capture rate.
The capture rate from the HDMI input is a broadcast specification 50 mega bytes per second.
Post capture.
The video file is then imported into Final Cut Pro 10 and placed on the timeline.
Colour correcting cine film.
The colour correcting of the cine film involves adjusting the Highlights. Colour channels and exposure of the film. This process is fairly time consuming. It requires a good eye for keeping the balance the same throughout the film.
Magenta. (Red)
When Colour correcting cine film magenta tends to be the predominant colour to correct. This is due to cine film ageing and seems to be present in 16mm. 8mm film suffers more from a Cyan or Magenta cast than just Magenta.
The picture Above. Shows how I have removed the magenta cast to the film using the colour Board in Final Cut Pro 10.
Link to Eastbourne Museums.
New Kodak super 8mm camera
New Kodak super 8 camera.
Fantastic news for us super 8 film shooters.
Kodak are bringing out a limited addition new Kodak super 8 camera.
Details.
Film Gauge: Super 8 (Extended Max-8 Gauge).
Film Load: Kodak Cartridges with 50ft (15m).
Variable Speed (9, 12, 18, 24, 25 fps) all with Crystal Sync.
Mount: C-Mount.
Fixed Ricoh 6mm 1.2, Optional 8-48mm Zoom Lens.
Manual Focus and Iris.
Viewfinder: 3.5″ Display with Standard Definition Input & Swivels +/- 45 Degrees.
Exposure Control: Built-in Light Meter for Supported Speeds of All Kodak Film Types, Manual Speed/Iris Settings.
Integrated Battery and Charger via Standard USB Wall Adapter.
Integrated Microphone.
Control Panel: Via 3.5″ TFT LCD.
Settings: Jog Wheel As User Interface.
Price: First Limited Edition — $400 – $750, Cheap Version Coming Later.
Buy Film, Processing, and Digital Transfer in One Step
Kodak plan to provide a super 8 film processing service. They will also provide a digital file with the processing service.. While Super 8mm processing is getting harder to find and more expensive, It’s unclear what kind of scan they’d be doing, or whether it’s just a simple telecine, but a lot of this plan makes sense.Kodak will provide a service for their. New super 8 film camera. Whereby you send the film to them. They process it, then send you a password so you can download a digital file of the film. What scanning method they will use is unclear at this stage.
Uk Market.
At this stage I am not sure if Kodak will be servicing the UK when it comes to film processing. I hope this venture by Kodak is a success. With film directors such as JJ Arbams,Christopher Nolan and Stephen Spielberg. Backing film It shows that it must be still the gold standard for movie making even in the 21 st century.
Hastings 1968 standard 8 cine film transfer.
Family cine film shot in Hastings cine film transfer East Sussex in 1968.
Kodak Cine film shot by my father in 1968. Both my father and Mother are Hastings born and bred and we still have many connections to this fantastic Seaside town.
Video Image Productions also provide a personal pick up and delivery service from Hastings and surrounding towns.
For more Information about this Historic town please visit https://www.visit1066country.com/destinations/hastings
Christmas Home movies
Christmas Home movies.
Christmas is a time to celebrate and enjoy time with friends and family. As we all sit around. On Christmas day how many times does the conversation turn to the ‘good old days’ and ‘when the kids were young’?
Well this year wouldn’t it be fantastic to not just talk about those great times but to see them as well? Get the family together and share those precious Christmas home movies moments,
Show your children/grandchildren your Christmas home movies. And show them what you used to look like when you were young. Have a good laugh over what the fashions were like back then!
Christmas home movies.
There really is no other time like Christmas. To take some time out of our busy lives and enjoy those closest to us and here at Video Image Productions that’s exactly what we stand for.
As a family run business we know the joys that spending time with your loved ones can bring and have for the past 18 years been helping families archive those precious memories for our generations to come. Whether you have cine film, video tapes or slides we can transfer them onto a suitable format for you that not only allows you to watch them again and again but archives them for future generations to enjoy. And what a present that would be. Whether you sneakily find those treasured memories and have them transferred for your parents or grandparents or you have them done for your children. I for one couldn’t think of a nicer and more thoughtful gift than making sure those family memories are safely digitalised for the future and therefore allowing the whole family to enjoy them instead of them gathering dust in an old shoebox or suitcase in the attic .
So, come on, dig out your old cine films, video tapes and slides, lets share them with our family and let’s make this Christmas one to remember!
knowing your video editing codecs
Knowing your video editing codecs.
So you have decided to try out some video editing your PC or Mac. I would say that knowing your video editing codecs is essential.
What is a video codec?
A video codec is a hardware or software based tool for encoding video. Codecs apply to audio files as well as video.
What are they for? Uncompressed video requires hug amounts of storage space. Without video compression it would be close to impossible to store your SD or HD video on tapes or memory cards.
Video picture quality. The rule is normally that the lower the compression the higher the picture quality. Having said this some of the modern codecs are very efficient at compressing video without picture quality loss.
Video Bitrate. Bitrate is measured in Bits per second of picture information. Broadcast Standard (In the UK) bitrate is 50 mega bits per second. With 4:2:2 colour sampling.
H.264. Is a modern video codec. It is predominantly used for High Definition video on the Internet.
Apple Pro Res. Is used heavily within Apple video editing programmes such as Final Cut Pro.
MPEG 4. Is employed for Blu Ray HD video discs.
AVI. Is a Predominantly Windows PC video codec.
Latest video camcorders. Formats.
Sony are now employing their XAVC recording format which is dedicated to 4K video production. This format empolys MPEG 4. AVC/H encoding for very high picture quality. Content formats are listed below.
- 4K (4096 x 2160 and 3840 x 2160), HD and proxy resolution.
- MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video compression.
- 12, 10 and 8 bit colour depth.
- Up to 60fps.
- MXF wrapping format can be used.
- 4:4:4, 4:2:2, 4:2:0 colour sampling.
Panasonic cameras such as the Panasonic HCX-1000 use .mov video. This makes life very easy when ingesting video clips into Final Cut Pro. This is due to the fact that FCP X uses, .mov as its native editing codec.