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Full Aperture OverScan of 8mm
John Kuhn shows us how he overscans an 8mm film sequence to show the frames(top to bottom) and perfs(edge to edge)
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Gwen Verdon is Merely Marvelous
Catch the documentary on Gwen Verdon on Amazon Prime. This award winning Documentary was produced and edited by Ken Bloom and Chris Johnson. They searched through the enormous visual history of Gwen’s productions to find the best scenes from her “Marvelous” career. This film was sourced from every kind of Read more
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Overexposed film needs Color Correction!
In this example, we have some outdoor footage that is severely overexposed and tinted blue. We decreased the highlights and blue levels while adding some mid-range. We go from washed out to blue skies and color that appears lost returns. We’re not always able to make this much of an Read more
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Faded Blue Film
Whenever we transfer film for a client we always use the DaVinci color correction system to balance color levels. Sometimes we get a film that’s severely faded and needs intense correction to look normal. A client sent us some skydiving footage where the film had gone almost completely blue, as Read more
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Faded Red Film!
We recently transferred some films for the Luehrmann family. The film, titled “Timeshared Computer Graphics”, details Arthur Luehrmann’s early work with computer-generated imagery, commonly referred to as C.G.I. these days. The film was badly faded and red, which is an issue we see frequently with prints from the 1960s and ’70s. Read more
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Fender Factory footage featured by Guitar World
Check out what Guitar World had to say about the Fender Guitar Factory footage transferred by CinePost: http://www.guitarworld.com/gear-viral-videos/forgotten-guitar-inside-look-fender-factory-1959/28649
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My Film has Mold!
Can anything be done? You bet! CinePost recently had a client with some film that suffered from mold/fungus. It shows up as spidery snowflakes/spots and is very distracting. The results are never guaranteed, but we’ve developed a method of soaking the film in a cleaning agent for several days, and Read more
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TCM: Hal Roach Shorts
TCM worked together with CinePost and composer Robert Israel to showcase a collection of short comedy films done by Hal Roach studios in the 1930’s. The films were scanned at 2k resolution before being extensively edited by the team at CinePost. The restoration work included de-flickering, dirt concealment, and numerous Read more