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    Help us Save Small Gauge Film

    We're Gamma Ray Digital, a digital film finishing service located in Boston, MA. We specialize in digital film restoration, Blu-ray and DVD authoring, and compression services for specialized playback systems (museum exhibits, trade shows, etc). We have recently launched an Indiegogo campaign...
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    8mm Telecine

    I'd be very wary of putting 8mm film through a telecine. A proper film scanner (Pro8mm uses what is essentially a modified telecine) that can deal with older film formats shouldn't have sprockets or use any kind of pin registration. Both of these can seriously damage older film, which tends to...
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    file compression - final cut pro

    "Compression" means lots of things, and some compression techniques are better than others. Avid DNxHD or ProRes HQ are pretty much equivalent in terms of quality, and are very high quality at that - you probably won't notice any real loss in picture quality with them. 4444 is overkill unless...
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