The GK-Film Quality Scanning of Super 8 / Single 8
There are hundreds of companies offering film scanning.
Unfortunately, often in very poor quality. Some assume the
picture of the screen, other with their own video camera via
Angle Prisma, etc.

For our quality sampling we put a high-performance Camera
(TCC CV3 image camera). The camera take over directly Movie
window in full resolution from 16, 18, 24 and 25 pictures per
second. The uniform illumination of your movie till in the picture
corners we achieve with modern LED technology (5500°K). Your
Super 8 film is cleaned and static discharge.

We offer you the professional film transfer to digital media such as DVD, hard drive as well as the 15 m
film coil on USB-stick as a service. As a final result comes by default a DVD in the PAL television standard
in picture format 4:3.

Why on PAL?
Super 8 film has at best a resolution, which already with the classic PAL TV standard (768 x 576 pixels -
DVD 720 x 576 pixels) can be recorded. Our scanning is carried out even with 1024 x 768 pixels. It
captures the whole film area including the outside margins of the film, which we cut for you in the clean
image area, on the PAL adjust resolution and deliver ready to player on DVD-video.

The aspect ratio of a Super 8 film is more like the TV-screen format 4:3. Super 8 images are shown in
16:9 format, the image remains black on the sides to maintain the correct aspect ratio.
What is often neglected: the pixel resolution of 16:9 and a 4:3 television image is identical. In 16:9 mode,
each pixel is only represented 'rectangular'. An adaptation of Super 8 film to the 16:9 image resolution
would be associated with a reduction of the image from which ultimately results in a loss of quality.

We recommend to use the 4:3 aspect ratio to achieve the best quality. Anyway, your 16:9 TV usually fits
DVD movies automatically to its optimal screen size (SD / HD 16:9).

If you are aiming for an elaborate post-production of the highest quality, we will certainly like the direct
result of scanning with 1024 x 768 pixels in AVI file (uncompressed RGB, up to 566 Mbit / sec.) are
available. Because these files to the capacity of DVD media exceed by far, raw data can be transferred
to hard drives in consultation.

How many frames per second?
Compared to Super 8 film the television format is very flexible: The PAL
format requires 25 frames per second, they are in half frames listed. Super8
film can be exposed with 16, 18, 24 or 25 frames per second . Would a
properly sampled played 18 fps movie in PAL, would accelerate the image
played back. We know the effect of old silent films.

By GK-quality film scanning, the source material is always on the correct
speed equivalent. In the above example using a special software calculates
intermediate images to get a PAL conforme DVD in the correct playing speed
and without getting stuttering.

Look and see of the GK-quality film scanning and watch our sample films.
On page 'cost examples' we have prepared a few case studies so you can
estimate the costs incurred for the digitization of your films.