Transfer cine film on to DVD.

[garinda]

My dad had my parent's wedding cine film transferred onto video at Garth Dawson's. However I've just phoned them to see if they transfer to DVD, and at the moment they can no longer do it.

Does anyone know of someone that does?

Going through the box of old films yesterday has really whetted my appetite to see them again.

There's some of fund raiser garden parties at my Uncle Joe's, Cllr. Aspinall's farm, and of his Chairman's procession, and ball. Which was a dry affair, being a staunch Methodist, much to the distaste of those councillors who liked a tipple.



Any help will be much appreciated.

There are firms advertising cine-DVD transfer, but I'd rather have one that had been used, and recommended.

Thanks.

[Studio25]

I only recommend Kaija at RVP for weddings. I haven't used their cine conversion service, so it's only the company I'm recommending, not the product.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Studio25

I only recommend Kaija at RVP for weddings. I haven't used their cine conversion service, so it's only the company I'm recommending, not the product.

Thanks for the information, and advice.

[Gremlin]

I enquired about the same subject for a mate of mine who has his wedding film from 1961.
I spoke to David at Garth Dawson's camera shop and he quoted a price per foot and it seemed reasonable. I have forgotten exactly how much but my mate was pleased with the result.
No harm in giving David a ring.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

I enquired about the same subject for a mate of mine who has his wedding film from 1961.
I spoke to David at Garth Dawson's camera shop and he quoted a price per foot and it seemed reasonable. I have forgotten exactly how much but my mate was pleased with the result.
No harm in giving David a ring.

Thank you.

I did call him this morning, before we lugged the box of films down there, and he said the firm they used to send them to are sadly no longer trading.

[K.S.H]

would it not be easier to use the video you got the cine film transferred too? ie video to dvd

Edit - ignore me, I didn't read all the post, I see its other films you want transferring

[garinda]

Many thanks to Maverick Productions, and Ken Moss.

Just watched the dvd of the old cine films, and we've both laughed and cried.

I was just hoping they'd be transfered to a dvd for stability. However they've been edited chronologically, enhanced, and restored, and even put to fantastic, and fitting, sound track, from the fifties through to the seventies.

There's some interior film taken inside Martin's baker's shop, before it was refurbished by the Shopfitters in 1961, as it had been since the war, and which we'd never seen before.

Perhaps of interest to other Accy Webbers -

Distant shot of Neil and Romp's house, and MargaretR's parents' home, and where she grew up, and her first love Jack Groves, and his natty sports car, all filmed in 1963.

Hey's playing field, 1960, showing in the distant Gayle's parent's home, also the Stop and Rest, in 1959.

Accy Grammar School master, Winky Owen, and his wife Nell, parents of Dylan Owen, amongst others, walking in my uncle Joe Aspinall's procession, when he was Chairman of the old Ossy Urban Council in 1964.

We think, though my mum isn't quite sure, Graham Jones's grandmother and grandfather, filmed at Laund in 1963, when they were friends and next door neighbours to my grandparents.

Some good street scenes of New Lane, Chapel St., Moor End, Stanhill Lane, Hornby St, and Union Road around the Town Hall, mainly early sixties.

I hope you don't mind me saying you did this for us Ken. You've done an absolutely fabuolus job, and we couldn't be more thrilled.

Thank you Ken, and thanks for the chat, and cheering me up, on what had until earlier been a bad day.

[garinda]

One other thing, long since gone, is the lawn tennis club at Brookside. It was downhill, behind Stanhill Street, across the brook from where Metcalf's was later built. Two courts, club house. Was hard to visualise how good it looked, when l was playing out there twenty years later. When all you could make out was the strange flatness, where the courts had once stood.

Incidentally playing tennis there, on the film taken in 1958, is another Accrington Grammar School old boy, Michael McCann. Later founder of one of this country's largest chain of 'adult lifestyle' stores, and first chair of that Adult Industry Trade Association, political activist, and friend to the rich and famous...and my landlord, for my first four years in London.

Odd what comes out of a Methodist youth and tennis club.

[Ken Moss]

That's one hell of a glowing review, G, thank you!

I always look on restoring cine films as a window to the past and it has become one of the more satisfying elements of my work because no two jobs are the same.

Really happy that I've perked up your day and thanks for asking in the first place.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Glad that you are pleased with the results G....and that it gave your day a lift.

It is something to look at when you need your spirits lifting.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Glad that you are pleased with the results G....and that it gave your day a lift.

It is something to look at when you need your spirits lifting.

It was.

Mum came down, and we watched it together.

We very nearly wet ourselves, at some of the daft, silly things on there.

We also both skriked a bit. Epecially when it suddenly leaves the sixties, and my dad popped on screen, grinning like a loon, as he always did messing about on his boat, just finishing his fag, before going for a ski, on a cowd lookin' Windermere.

Quite cathartic, laughing through your tears.

Bit weird, seeing yourself as a toddler.

Gorgeous little imp. So no real change there then.

Though I will always feel cheated, I didn't land the role of Damien, in The Omen.

I was born to play that part.

[accyman]

Originally Posted by garinda

Does anyone know of someone that does?.

i can put vhs to dvd for ya if you throw me the vhs cassette

can also put it to .xvid so its easier to share with friends via usb stick etc

granted im self taught but iv done a few conversions ask sheillihla i put some of her vhs to dvd for her

if you want fancy menues adding etc it will take longer but if you just want a straight copy from vhs to dvd with chapters its pretty simple

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by K.S.H

would it not be easier to use the video you got the cine film transferred too? ie video to dvd

Edit - ignore me, I didn't read all the post, I see its other films you want transferring

In almost every case it is better to go back to the source material and do a clean transfer as technology improves all the time and by transferring the former VHS conversion you're almost certainly starting with lower grade footage.

A DVD or Bluray is only as good as the material that is put on it so starting with mediocre film is not going to improve the quality simply because it is on a better medium.

[Studio25]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

...A DVD or Bluray is only as good as the material that is put on it so starting with mediocre film is not going to improve the quality simply because it is on a better medium.

Surely because it's a "lossy" compression, the correct way to start that paragraph is "A DVD or Bluray can't ever be as good as the material that is put on it"

From my tests of DVD a few years ago, a DVD that is recompressed onto a new DVD several times (as opposed to the files simply being copied) starts to have noticeable faults at the second generation and is unwatchable by the fifth.

[Neil]

How old is the view of my house?
Was the tree at the front? I think it was planted in the 60's but thats just from what neighbours have said.