WE TRANSFER TO GOLD ARCHIVAL DVD DISKS

Welcome to Bluprint Cine Transfers, based in Hertfordshire for over 20 years.

If you are looking for a more convenient way of viewing your Standard 8mm, Super 8mm, 9.5mm or 16mm cine films, we offer a choice of services and options.

These include cine transfer to gold layer archival grade DVD's as standard, cine to MiniDV digital tape or cine to AVI or Quicktime files transferred onto external hard drive or flash memory drives.

All cine to DVD transfer disks come with your choice of titles and messages printed directly onto the DVD disk surface and also onto the sleeve insert of the DVD library case.

We can also make DVD copies from video formats such as  VHS, S-VHS, VHS(C), Video 8, Hi 8, MiniDV, DVCAM and Mini DVD disks.

Our customers include film production companies, museums, universities, auction houses, corporate companies as well as the nations archive of family memories throughout Herts, the UK and beyond.

To get an idea of the quality of our transfers, we are happy to send you a free sample DVD. These demonstration disks contain clips from clients who are happy for us to share them with you.  Please contact us for your free copy with no obligation.

Archive

We transfer film to more formats with improved picture quality - these include cine to DVD, cine to MiniDV digital tape and also cine to portable hard drives or flash memory drives for customers using editing software on their home computers. Click here to see a selection of cine film we have transferred for our customers.
transfer

DVD provides great picture quality and easy storage and we transfer to Archival Gold DVDs. Manufactured with a gold reflective layer, they have an estimated lifespan of over 100 years. Gold DVDs are one of the most reliable ways of storing and viewing your precious cine films. To find out more about how we enhance your films go to our transfer choices page.
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We believe in uncomplicated pricing and our easy to use
price calculator makes it simple for you to choose the options you require. It calculates the price of each item and the total cost of your order - with no obligation. If you would prefer to talk to someone, just call us and we will calculate the cost of your order for you.

YOUR FILMS ARE UNIQUE

 
'Time marches on' as a famous old american newsreel once said and so does technology.

From the birth of photography with the production of the first permanent photographic image produced by a process called 'photoetching' in 1822 to the latest digital stills, video and 3D cameras, people around the world have always strived to produce the highest quality visual record of our history.

With the advent of motion pictures, the flickering image on a white screen was perceived as magic for many people, there are even stories of audiences, frightened of the sight of a steam locomotive heading towards the screen.

For the first time in history, a true moving representation of the world was available to everyone.

Live television commenced in the UK during the 1930's with the BBC broadcasts and cine film was used to record some of those early live programmes.

The late 1950's saw the introduction of the first industrial sized video recorders for television. Many of the programmes we remember from the 1960's  and 1970's were recorded on video but due to the high cost of videotape at that time, many were erased and reused.

When film became available in the form of Standard 8mm and Super 8mm, a unique worldwide archive was created for future generations, recording the daily life and times of the last sixty years.

We started our service of transferring cine film in 1986. Back then, we copied film to VHS and Betamax tape as they were the only medium of choice for people who wanted to watch their cine films on TV rather then setting up a cine projector and we have seen every aspect of the british public through the cine camera lens on 9.5mm, 8mm and 16mm cine film.

From the monochrome images of King Edward VIII opening a Hospice in the 1930's and an army wedding in the 1940's, cine film in colour of rock and roll teenagers in the 1950's, the Beatles arriving in London for possibly the first time in the 1960's, the Queen's Silver Jubilee parties throughout the UK in the 1970's and the the interesting ways that people and places have changed up to the present day.

Even now in 2010, super 8mm film is still available to buy and is used by production companies in broadcast programmes for that unique and original filmic look.

Our cine film to DVD transfer process is completed in four stages. Firstly your cine films would be examined on a film rewind bench and any cine films that have damaged sections would be repaired and broken splices remade.

The cine films then go through an ultrasonic cleaning process to remove any surface dirt and dust due to years of film projection. Colour, contrast and brightness levels are adjusted electronically to improve the quality of the cine film image during transfer. Although most 8mm film orders we receive are silent, films with audio would have the soundtrack transferred as part of the transfer process.

The final stage is creating or 'authoring' the cine films to DVD or making a direct copy to digital tape or encoded to computer files.

Although we are based in Hertfordshire, near the M25 London orbital motorway, our courier and delivery service covers all of the UK including some overseas customers. You can of course make an appointment to deliver and collect your films personally.

We believe that your films are important and even though you may have an excellent visual and audio record of them copied onto DVD, digital tape or transferred to a computer file for editing, please do not dispose of them but keep your original films stored away safely for your children and grandchildren, they are your original 'master' materials and you will never know when you might need them again.