Film Scanning
Professionally scanned frame by frame from original 8mm, Super 8mm, 9.5mm and 16mm film.
Bringing your memories to life in stunning digital quality.
Film Formats We Scan
Professional frame by frame scanning for historic and family cine film formats.
Standard 8mm
Carefully scanned frame by frame for maximum image stability and detail preservation. Ideal for preserving family memories from the 1930s to the 1970s in high quality digital formats.
Super 8mm
Professionally digitised frame by frame from original Super 8 film reels, preserving colour, detail and motion with modern restoration techniques and high quality digital delivery.
9.5mm
Specialist scanning of vintage 9.5mm Pathé film using careful frame by frame capture techniques to preserve rare historic and family footage with excellent image stability and detail.
16mm
High quality frame by frame scanning for 16mm film, suitable for home movies, documentaries, training films and archival footage, with optional colour correction and soundtrack transfer.
Why Frame by Frame Scanning?
Unlike traditional projector transfers, every frame of your film is individually captured as a high resolution digital image at 3264 × 2448 pixels. This method preserves far more detail, colour and stability from the original film while retaining the natural grain and character of the image.
A typical 50ft reel of Standard 8mm or Super 8mm film contains around 3,600 individual frames. Rather than recording a projected image in real time, each frame is digitally photographed separately to create a far more stable and detailed final transfer.
High resolution frame scanning also allows advanced digital restoration techniques to be used during both the scanning process and post production. During the initial scanning stage, AI assisted tools can analyse the opening scenes of a film while multiple exposure, colour and contrast adjustments are tested to help calculate the characteristics of the film stock being scanned.
This helps compensate for the natural ageing and colour fading that different makes of film develop over the decades since they were originally shot.
AI assisted restoration can help with:
Exposure balancing
Colour fade correction
Scene by scene adjustment
Image stabilisation
Flicker reduction
Dust and scratch reduction
Brightness and contrast recovery
Overall image consistency across entire scenes
By scanning frame by frame rather than recording a projected image, issues such as flicker, softness and uneven exposure are greatly reduced while preserving the authentic appearance of the original film.
