Transfer Film to DVD in Orange County

Watch your old 8mm, Super8 or 16mm Film once again on a new DVD! Our team of film transfer technicians will clean, repair, and re-splice your 8mm, super 8, or 16mm film by hand and digitally convert it frame-by-frame onto our 100 year archival DVD or onto an external hard drive.

Supported Film Formats:

Sound or Silent

Pricing and Basic Info
User-Recommended Upgrades
Geek Corner

Film Transfer

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Pricing and Basic Info

	Competitive Film Transfer	Premium Film Transfer
Per Foot	19¢	34¢
Per Reel	$0	$0
Transfer to DVD	$30 Master $10 Addtional Copies	$30 Master $10 Addtional Copies
Transfer to Hard Drive	$50/2 hrs	$50/2 hrs
Minimum Order (per type of film)	$70	$70
Includes	All film is lubricated and cleaned prior to being transferred Film spliced onto brand new 400' reels 100-year archival DVDs Compatibility guaranteed	All film is lubricated and cleaned prior to being transferred Film spliced onto brand new 400' reels 100-year archival DVDs Compatibility guaranteed Frame-by-frame transfer Real-time manual back-lighting control Scene-by-scene color restoration in post-editing

User-Recommended Upgrades

Transferring to External Hard Drive

This is recommended if you are planning to manipulate or edit your footage in any way. If you'd like your video files divided by reel in increments of less than 400 feet, please add $2 per video split. Click here for hard drive pricing... If you are bringing in your own hard drive with data on it, there is a $15 setup fee. There is no fee if your drive has no data on it or if you've purchased the drive through us.

Film to DVD With Music!

For as low as $20, adding a custom soundtrack to your old film will really make them stand out! Ask your film transfer technician for more information.

Edit your old home movies!

Do you want to have full control of your film or want to try your hand at movie movie director? We have time-slots available for you to come in our office and work one-on-one with one of our expert editors.

Tech Corner

Film Transfer

The Competitive Film Transfer

The first step in a film transfer order is to inspect the reels, and prepare them to be cleaned, repaired, and lubricated. Bad or broken splices will be re-spliced to ensure the best transfer possible. The cleaning process may differ depending on the age, type, and condition of the film, however, we will make sure to clean every inch of your film. This inspection and cleaning procedure can often take longer than the actual transfer, which is why the turnaround time is a little longer than other media types. This cleaning process is critical to a quality film to dvd transfer, and many companies charge extra, or simply do not offer this service.

Once the film has been cleaned, it is time to perform the telecine transfer. While being transferred, film is projected directly into the lens of a broadcast quality 3-CCD camera.

Please contact our film transfer technician if you have any questions, or would like to view a full quality demo reel.

Premium Frame-by-Frame Film Transfer

The Premium frame-by-frame film transfer is by far the highest quality film transfer available today, as each frame of film is individually transferred.

Our retrofitted projector is unique in the fact that it has a manually adjustable brightness control which can make scenes that were previously too light, or too dark look much better. The transfer technician will watch your film in it's entirety on a standard monitor as well as a waveform monitor and adjust the back-light control accordingly. This particular type of brightness adjustment is not available at most other companies.

The Premium film transfer also includes scene-by-scene color correction to bring back the original colors. Almost all film will shift in color over time (usually to blue or red). The film transfer technician will go through your footage scene-by-scene (a very time-consuming process) to correct all discoloration. Please note that severely discolored or extremely dark film is nearly impossible to bring back to original, but we can definitely get as close as humanly or digitally possible.

Additional Information

OC-DVD is currently serving Orange County

Orange County Cities

Aliso Viejo, Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Corona, Costa Mesa, Dana Point, Foothill Ranch, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Irvine, La Habra, La Palma, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Lake Forest, Los Alamitos, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, Placentia, Rancho Santa Margarita, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Seal Beach, StantonS, Tustin, Villa Park, Yorba Linda