16mm Film
16mm Film
16mm film, which was introduced in the early 1920s, was at the time interestingly enough considered to be a low-quality film by the film industry.
Today, nearly 100 years later, it is still embraced by many filmmakers and producers for small theatrical films, which only attests to its overall high quality, even in today’s terms.
16mm film comes in 3 main flavors – Standard 16mm, Super 16mm and Ultra 16mm (very uncommon). Some notable recent pictures produced on Super 16mm are Leaving Las Vegas, Sex and the City and The Hurt Locker.
We would like to note that we do not handle 16mm film for professional broadcast purposes. Our specialty is in the institutional archival and family history preservation and restoration.
We currently are able to transfer 16mm film to standard definition video (SD) and can transfer 16mm and Super 16mm film to DVD and files.
Photos
Photos
We offer photo scanning to digital files. We can generate medium to large photo scans as well as provide touch-up and color correction services.
Some other services we offer for photo scanning is creation of a video montage on DVD or a movie file, and adding music and/or narration over it.
We can also blend video and photos together and create interesting motion on the photos. There is very little we cannot do – it is all up to your imagination and needs.
We can create most digital files – DPX, TIFF, TARGA, JPEG, BMP, PNG and even PDFs, as well as others. Please inquire for a specific format, resolution, DPI and bit-depth.
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Slides
Slides
In addition to our photo scanning services, we also offer specialized high-end slides scanners and retouching services. We can scan slides to DVDs, Blu-rays and files.
Just like our photo scanning services, we do offer editorial services for slides, including making a family movie, blending with video footage, adding music and narration, titles and interesting zooms and pans on the actual slides.
In short, we make it come to life!
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The VHS Family
The VHS Family
The VHS Family
By far the most common home video format and the most frequent transferred.
VHS (Video Home System) was created in the 1970s and surprisingly is still being manufactured as of 2010 for limited use. It comes in several flavors – most common is the standard VHS, as well as S-VHS, VHS-C and the less frequent D-VHS.
The most important fact regarding VHS, and analog media in general, is that the magnetic particles that form the recorded picture and sound fade away and disintegrate over time. Even the earth magnetic filed does affect analog media such as VHS.
The VHS format is especially susceptible to decay because it was not designed to last for a very long time and was never designed for true professional use.
Another factor to consider, especially when transferring VHS to DVD or VHS to files, is that since VHS has been in use for nearly 40 years and have been through many evolutionary steps, there is really no way to predict which VHS player will play any given tape at optimal quality. Here at Advanced Media, we have a wide variety of VHS decks, from specialized professional-grade decks, to hard-to-find unique models. We always match your tape with the deck that will be the best fit for your tape.
In reality, transferring VHS to DVD and files, is an art form just as much as it is science, and we at Advanced Media have accumulated tens of thousands of tape hours to back it up.
The Beta Family
The Beta family is probably the most diverse family among the entire tape format families and covers the entire range from home video to professional broadcast flavors.
Most people are familiar with the Betamax system, which was introduced along VHS in the 1970s, however, which lost its footing in the infamous “format war”.
Interestingly enough, despite Betamax decline, it had continued production until the year 2002 in many countries, and was also an important evolutionary step towards the development of BetaCam and professional video formats.
The BetaCam line is the professional evolution of Betamax into the broadcast industry. BetaCam has evolved from the standard BetaCam tape, to the higher quality BetaCam SP and then later to BetaCam SX, Digital BetaCam, BetaCam IMX and eventually it to high-definition flavors – HDCAM & HDCAM-SR
Here at Advanced Media we have the full capacity to handle every possible Beta format for you.
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Government
Governement
As an approved government contractor, we can service most government and municipal agencies.
We have performed many library conversion jobs for bodies such as the FBI and various cities in various states, including California.
We constantly upgrade and invest in new equipment and adhere to very high standards.
A division of Advanced Media, HD Creative Services, specializes in servicing the various media and post-production needs of motion pictures studios and production companies, and both our divisions constantly benefit each other.
When you choose to work with us, you choose top-level expertise, large resource pool, deep level knowledge and experience and great customer service. With vast experience and penetration in the motion picture industry, we rise above in order to service your needs.
To get a quote for your project, please contact us here or call us at 1-855-551-5857
- To learn more about our corporate identity, please visit our corporate site here www.advancedmediallc.com
Digitize
Digitize
Digitizing, or the process of converting picture and sound into a file form that can be read by computers, means that what you currently have on a tape, film or a slide can be easily edited and manipulated digitally with your preferred editing software, or with a professional.
You can use these files to share with family and friends, edit and tell your own family story, promote yourself and your ideas online, and if they have some commercial value – go ahead and find a way to make some money by selling or licensing it.
Another major benefit of digitizing, is that you take a very smart step toward preserving and securing your family history and memories on a readily accessible file format, which can be read by any computer, now and in the future.
We offer digitizing to all file type and can digitize from virtually any source – DVD, VHS, Blu-ray, Beta, Video8, 8mm & 16mm film, MiniDV, photos, slides, CDs, Audio Cassettes and many more.
Most common files are: QuickTime (DV, ProRes, Uncompressed, H.264), AVI, WMV (Windows Media), DIVX, Flash, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DPX and many more. If you need it – we can handle it.
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The Video 8 Family
The Video 8 Family
The Video 8mm was the alternative to VHS camcorder format, started in the mid 1980s and offered similar quality to the VHS family.
Video 8mm, or as commonly known – Video8, is made up of the original Video 8mm, the more advanced Hi8 and the digital format – Digital8.
We have specialized equipment to handle every flavor of Video8 and can handle Video 8mm, Hi-8 and Digital8.
Whether you need Video8 to DVD, Hi8 to DVD or Digital8 to DVD, or Video8, Hi8 and Digital8 to files – we are here to handle it for you.
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YouTube & Vimeo
YouTube
If you are a little more Internet savvy and would need to utilize the web in a way that would benefit your career, profession and overall personal purposes, we are here to help.
We specialize in high-quality encoding and generating files for YouTube and Vimeo. Some of the benefits of using these web platforms are that the hosting is free and you can easily embed the files into your own site and other affiliate sites and online locations. You can also use Vimeo to share and distribute content in a way that would only be available to registered and qualified users.
We do charge a small convenience fee for the high-quality encoding, setting up and uploading of your files to these
Vimeo
platforms.
We would like to note that the platforms themselves are free to use and you can encode the files yourself if you know how to do it. The benefits of working with us, is that we know exactly how to get it done, can do it efficiently and fast and can achieve a very high quality for your files.
Other platforms we can encode and upload to are various websites and FTP servers, as well as other video sharing Internet platforms.
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The U-Matic Family
The U Matic Family
The 3/4″ U-Matic family, in use from the 1970s to the early 90s, was one of the first professional “enclosed reel” formats.
At these early days of analog videotapes, the wider the actual recording tape was, the better picture quality it offered. ¾” U-Matic comes mainly in two flavors – “low-band” and its higher quality counterpart “high-band”, marked by gray and red tapes respectively.
Since ¾” video has been massively used throughout the world, many institutions and even professionals still have archives of this format.
One of the main challenges with preserving ¾” video is that as time goes by, less and less U-Matic machines are available, especially in shape good enough for high-quality transfer.
We at Advanced Media, have invested in buying and maintaining several U-Matic VTRs for both Hi-band and Low-band and are easily capable of digitizing and transferring ¾” video to any possible digital format.
Remember The Old Times
Our memories are special and unique. It is always the right time to take a pause and rekindle.
iPhone & iPad
iphone
Let’s face it – who doesn’t have these days an iPhone or an iPad? Who doesn’t have both? As these smart phone devices are becoming the norm and find their use into everyday life, so may your family history and memories needs.
One of the main benefits of carrying your personal and family memories over these mobile devices, is your ability to enjoy them whenever you go and share them with anyone you would like to. If this is not a benefit, we wouldn’t know what is.
We offer the convenience of converting your files to iPhone and iPad and other smart phone devices.
Take your memories anywhere in the world and keep them close to you, even when you are away.
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The DV Family
The DV Family
The DV family of videotape formats is possibly responsible not only for the gradual transition from analog to digital media, but also for revolutionizing the entire movie and TV industry as we know it, and was possibly one of the main evolutionary steps from the traditional approach to video production all the way to the most current applications of digital and tapeless recording.
The DV format, which has started in the mid-90s with film & TV production and was introduced into the consumer electronic market by early 2000s, has been in great use ever since by both professionals and consumers alike.
The DV format is comprised of DV, DVCAM, MiniDV, DVCPro and several other variants, including the HDV and DVCPro HD formats.
It is very likely that a vast amount of home videos and family taped history and memories have been taped on the various DV formats in the period of 2000-2010. The benefit of DV is that it is relatively a stable, digital format and it offers relatively high quality video. Some of the main issues with DV preservation and transfer to DVD or files, is the connectivity issues. DV equipment generally relies on 4-pin or 6-pin “FireWire” cables which are very unstable, and which are being rapidly discontinued by computer manufacturers.
We at Advanced Media offer a large range of DV VTRs that can handle any type of DV, be it DV, DVCAM, MiniDV, DVCPro and HDV, and at either NTSC or PAL, and using professional broadcast equipment, able to transfer it to DVD, files or other tape types. For the professionals in you, we use mostly SDI connectivity to maintain highest picture quality.
Don’t Let Them Fade Away
Your memories are priceless. We specialize in preserving, restoring, digitizing and archiving your memories for future generations to enjoy.
