Looking for a good transfer service

[romeojesus]

I really can recommend AVP in germany
rank-cintel mkIII
they have an amateur rate (not looking amateur though:) )
for reversal which is about Euro 2,40 plus tax (dont know the exact rate right now) per minute film running time, so at 24fps you turn out with 6euro plus tax!!!

you can even send in your own blank DV tape..

I used them with K40, trix, ektachrome and old 200t always with great results.

check out their web site

http://www.avp-vt.de

there used to be several examples by me in the ftp section
(trix ranked or v200 compared to k40 (splitscreen))

christian

[CHAS]

Does anybody know anything about this company:

http://dtsav.com/

They claim to do wetgate.

[tlatosmd]

As for Germany (even though they say they use to 'transfer thousands of reels from all over Europe per month), I really, really recommend http://www.digital-video-factory.com . Granted, their web design is horrible, but they've been leading the top as for quality in the long-term field in a transfer services test in Jürgen's German version of small format.

Long-term as in, they need a lot of time for it (bulk transferring?), about 2 months per job, no matter how big or small it is. However, the results are best, it's broadcasting quality, and they do pre-transfer cleaning, then color, density, and levels correction for free.

The best thing of all is their price, it's the lowest price for S8 telecining in Germany (except for those 'transfer services' that only point a camcorder in complete auto-mode to a projection screen), about 50 cents/minute if you want it on VHS or DVD, packaging, shipping (within Germany), and taxes included, and 1 Euro/minute for transfer to miniDV. They also give 1% discount per reel you send in per job (so, for example, 10 reel job = 10% discount), so it's best to keep everything on your original 15m/50ft reels. It's only if you send them but one reel, then it's all 15 Euros complete, but that's because it's so small a job, as soon as it's two or more reels, the above rules are valid.

[EtiN]

Wow, I should have learned my german lessons at school..
By the way, what format allows computer editing ? DVD, MPEG2, MiniDV ?
Cheers

[tlatosmd]

Wow, I should have learned my german lessons at school..
By the way, what format allows computer editing ? DVD, MPEG2, MiniDV ?
Cheers

You can edit all of them. However, MPEG2 is probably the worst choice for editing because it's compressed the most.

DVD can mean either MPEG2 or data (aka 'AVI') DVD ('DVD' on DVF's website means MPEG2 DVD unless otherwise noted). Data or AVI DVD is much better for editing, but it costs more.

I prefer miniDV as a compromise of price and quality/editing potential.

I guess you could try sending them an English mail to d.v.f@t-online.de .