Video has replaced 8mm and super8 or 16mm films. But the old films contain precious family memorabilia. Over time, they lose their colours and, depending of preservation temperatures, become dry. We can transfer them on a DVD or a VHS cassette. Now you can keep these precious memorabilia and look at them whenever you wish on modern readers.
Transfer prices for 8mm and super8 films
50 to 500 feet
500 feet and more
0.18 per foot
0.15 per foot
on DVD or VHS
on DVD or VHS
on Mini DV (add $9.00 for a 62 minute cassette)
Our film transfer technique allows us to correct the colours and improve the sharpness
of the image.
Your films are always monitored and corrected to attenuate the colour dominants caused either by film deterioration or colour dominants in some films
(ex: Kodachrome was redder, Ektachrome had a blue dominant and Agfachrome
had a green dominant)
Please look at the following example to see the difference.
DVD MENU CREATION (click to enlarge)
(1)
(2)
(1)The basic access interface is included in the price of all transfers
(2) Cost for a personalized menu: $35.00
Impression of the disc face
FREE printing of the face of your DVDs with the title requested on the purchase order
A colour jacket allows you to write the title of your DVD, which is then sealed in plastic
PERSONALIZED FORM If you wish one of your photo; add $2.00
Video editing Service
We can digitize your films, set them up by sequence, keep only the important sequences and create an access menu.
Hourly rate: $35.00
Our digitized set-up room:
Adding music
To complete your presentation, we can add music;
we offer two choices:
We select music that fits the period of your films
OR
you provide the music you want
Cost: $35.00 per hour.
FILM IDENTIFICATION
-The 8mm standard was created at the beginning of the 50s.
-The Super 8 appeared on the market in April 1965.
The 9,5 mm film was the ancestor of the amateur cinema formats. Created in France in 1922 with the Pathé-Baby, it has practically disappeared from the general public market today.
-The 16mm was used by professionals; this type of film is still used today.
The 35 mm format is a perforated photographic pellicle, with a width of 35 mm. First created for cinema, it was later introduced in silver halide photography, under code 135 (this is why it is often called pellicle 135 or 135 film) where it has become the dominant format.
Please listen to an example of a transfer of a 33 LP on audio CD CLICK ON THE EAR
Magnetic tapes: (tracks 1,3 et 2,4 i.e. conventional stereo)
Without tracking: $ 20.00
With tracking : $ 30.00/hour
Transcoding
DVD Zone
The globe has been divided into 6 zones. This concept designed to assure protection of the film rights. Consumer must make sure of buying only DVDs belonging to the same zone as your reader, or using a "multi-zone" reader.
DVDs without ownership rights can normally be read on all machines.
Zone 1 : North America Zone 2 : Eastern and Western Europe + Japan + South Africa + Israel + Lebanon Zone 3 : South-East Asia Zone 4 : South America + Australia Zone 5 : Russia + Africa Zone 6 : China Zone 0 : all zones
We transcode from or to PAL standards (European)
or NTSC from a DVD or VHS.
VHS to VHS (120 min.) $20.00
DVD to DVD (no menu) $35.00
For longer films, please call us.
We transfer your video cassettes on DVDs
DVD XP Mode length (1hour) SP Mode (2hours) LP Mode (4hours) EP Mode EP (6 hours)
Video cassette format accepted for transfer on DVD.
Rate:
First hour: $15.00
Additional hours: $8.00
For several cassettes, a discount may be granted.
Betacam and Betacam SP cassettes
$25.00 per 20-minute cassette.
Our service includes
(the DVD, ink jet colour impression and the DVD black box) $4.99/each.
*WE OFFER FREE PICK UP IN MONTREAL-SOUTH SHORE-LAVAL
($100.00 minimum order)
We will return your films with the DVD(s) by Canada Post
Please allow 10 days to complete your order.
You may also pick up your films at the studio.
Payment
You can pay by cheque when you get your films, pay upon delivery. Cheque or cash only.
After his college studies, P.A. Mc Neil became interested in photography. He followed a course with Jean Letarte, of Radio-Canada, with whom he
has cooperated since. He continued his studies and obtained diplomas in commercial photography, portraiture and in colour finishing techniques at the School of Modern Photography in Montreal; commercial and advertising photography at the School of Modern Photography in New Jersey, and finally received a diploma in audio-visual technique from the New York Institute of Photography..He attended several stages in specialized workshops, in industrial and architectural design, lithography, medical photography, and others.
Pierre Mc Neil’s interests first went to press photography, he worked as a freelancer for the Daily Commercial News. He also obtained important publicity photography contracts for Molson,Lactancia, Lippens, Lavo, Rona, Nutrite, Evian, Nestlé, Datagram, Produits VH and Dunkin Donuts. He also created the graphic design for several cover pages in les Éditions Québec-Amérique, les Presses de l’Université du Québec and les Métiers d’Art du Québec.
Always looking for new techniques and wishing to enlarge his field of action, P.A. Mc Neil has specialized for several years in the restoration of old photographs.
A professional photographer, P.A. Mc Neil is also a pedagogue ; he is the author of a course of initiation to photography, published at Éditions Brault & Bouthillier. He has participated in several shows, including the most important, at the Maison du Québec in Boston, and another one in Bilbao, Spain during the Arteder show, where he won first prize as a Canadian photographer.
Today, P.A. Mc Neil offers video services (corporate setting, shooting of shows etc), as well as video settings of your cassettes or digitized photographs, reproduction and DVD transcoding Concerning film transfers and slides, Pierre Mc Neil is aware that people look more and more for professionals when making memorable transfers and video settings, and he has set-up a studio designed exclusively for this purpose.
Productions PM Multimédia (in business since 1969)
P.A. McNeil
271 Francois-Seguin
Boucherville (Quebec)
Canada J4B 1L6
450.655-3321 1.866.802.3321
(Toll Free in Canada and the USA)
The 8mm films were sold under the Double 8mm name. In practice, they were 16mm films that were filmed on both sides. People who remember this era know that the spool had to be turn on its side in the camera. As a result, 25 feet became 50 feet during processing. .
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Pierre McNeil multimedia creator- 2005