Process!


Getting your Super 8 images from unexposed film into a digital format isn’t as hard as you’d think. All films require some form of processing after use, then exposed film images will need transferring into a digital format for later editing.

 

Home Super 8 processing – in a drain pipe!

With some bits and bobs from the local hardware store, you too could follow the Peaceman’s instructions and process at home…
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Telecine, all you need to know

If you don’t know your flying spot from your film chain, help is at hand with our step-by-step guide to transfering film to digital, including advice on solutions for all budgets…
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Laboratories

All Super 8 films have to be processed by specialist laboratories, unless of course you decide to do it yourself (see below). Labs that offer Black and White processing are denoted , E6 reversal processing (Ektachrome)  and ECN2 negative processing (Vision & Fuji) .

 Andec Filmtechnik   
 Augustos Color  
 B & W Film factory 
 Cine Dia 
 Cinelab   
 Color City   
 Color Lab 
 Dwayne’s Photo 
 Exclusive Film and Video  
 Film Rescue International
 Film Plus 
 Fotocinema    
 Gama SAI  
 Graficolor  
 Megacolor 
 Movie and Sound   
 Nano Lab  
 Niagara Custom Lab
 Northwest Imaging 
 Pac Lab  
 Pro 8mm   
 Retro Enterprises  
 Rocky Mountain Film
 Soho Film Lab 
 Spectra Film & Video   
 Super 8 Reversal Lab    
 Yale Film & Video  
 Zenit   

Filmmakers labs

You don’t have to process with the big boys, sometimes local artists and filmmakers might give you the look you want.

 Filmlabs.org

Hand Processing

With some know how, the right chemicals and a little perseverance, it is possible to process your own Super 8 films.

 An Itch To Scratch
 Cine Tank Guide
 Developing Super 8
 Drain Pipe Processing
 Handmade Film Institute
 Hand Processing Notes
 Ken Paul Rosenthal
 Movie Processing Page
 Ralph Dickinson’s pages
 Super 8 Camera
 Tiny Picture Club

Optical / Blow Up

Super 8 and small gauge films can be optically printed, altered or blown up to 16mm and 35mm formats (at a price), here’s a list of organisations who are specialists in such options.

 AGF Laboratórios
 Andec Filmtechnik
 BB Optics
 B & W Film factory
 Cineric
 Color Lab
 DuArt
 Movie and Sound
 n.o.where lab
 Studio Gamma
 Super 8 Reversal Lab
 Super8.to.it

Sound striping

Whilst Super 8 sound film is long out of production, a few specialists can still stripe a processed film for a sound track to be added later.

 AGF Laboratórios
 Filmbesprung

Digital to Super 8

It is now possible to get your digital footage, computer graphics and animations transferred onto Super 8 film. Combine digital versatility with the proven archive qualities of film. Amazing!

 B & W Film factory

Telecine

There are various options for film to tape (or data file) telecine ranging from industry standard professional flying spot type broadcast solutions through to frame by frame scans and film chain (projector and camera). With all, the results can be dramatic and show Super 8 off to full effect. Some now offer high definition and straight to hard drive  outputs.

professional suite

 AGF Laboratórios
 Agressive Media
 Andec Filmtechnik
 AVP Video Transfer
 Bono Film
 Bonolabs  
 Brodsky & Treadway
 Buscando Hormigas
 Cinelab
 Cinelicious  
 Cinepost
 Color Lab  
 Debenham Media Group  
 DuArt
 E. Anglian Film Archive
 Estudios Mega
 Fipra
 Ikueisha
 Kahl Film
 Lightpress FSFT  
 Movie and Sound
 Norsk Smalfilm
 Online Video 
 Pac Lab
 Park Road Post
 Post House
 Pro 8mm  
 Rushes
 Soho Film Lab
 Spectra Film & Video 
 Transfer Station
 Video-8
 Wagner die Filmfabrik
 Yale Film & Video

frame by frame film scan

 Avid Tech Transfers  
 B & W Film factory
 BlueCineTech
 Bolex Digital
 Color City
 Die Filmwerkstatt
 Digital Transfer Systems
 Disk Bank 
 DVD Infinity
 Ever Media
 Exclusive Film and Video
 The Film Whisperer
 Fipra
 Forever on DVD
 Frame Discreet
 Kahl Film
 Media Capture 
 Movie Stuff
 Movie Transfer
 Norsk Smalfilm
 The Old Film Company
 Photoplays
 Screenshot 
 Studio Kopiowania
 Super 8 Reversal Lab
 Supersens
 Tout Sur DVD
 Uppsala Bildteknik  
 Vintage Media
 Wagner die Filmfabrik
 Widescreen Centre

film chain

 AV Geeks
 Buscando Hormigas
 Cine vis 8 & 16
 Echo Park Film Center
 Film and Video Services
 Go Agressive
 Garage 5
 Hippies Films
 Home Movie Depot
 Java Photo
 Moving Images
 Norsk Smalfilm
 Plato Video
 Screenshot 
 Supersens
 Super 8 Transfers
 Tornij

buy your own machine!

 Movie Stuff
 MWA Nova flashSCAN8
 Tobin Cinema Systems

DIY Do It Yourself!

You could always just video your Super 8 footage off a white wall or (for the technically adventurous) it’s possible to build you own telecine device using a projector or film scanner as the basis of a truly bespoke system. Learn more…

information and articles

 Computer Arts
 Digitising 8mm Film
 Movie Making Manual – Wikibooks
 PC Mag

diy, components

 Glasscreen
 TeleCine Components
 Video Optik Braehler

diy, step by step

 8mm2avi
 Fälker’s Telecine
 Flatbed Telecine
 Fred’s Smalfilm
 FSDT Project
 Homebrew Telecine
 Legacy Project
 Super 8 to DV for free
 Telecine Machine

 

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