Did you know… TMTV (Teamwork Media Television Inc.) specializes in the recovery, restoration, and scanning of damaged motion picture films including 8mm, Super 8mm, and 16mm film. They are particularly noted for their ability to handle films with severe damage like vinegar syndrome, water damage, or physical distortion.
The process: TMTV film restoration process involves several steps designed to recover, restore, and preserve damaged motion picture films.
Film Recovery and Initial Assessment – Damage Identification: TMTV specializes in recovering films that are warped, shrunk, buckled, twisted, brittle, moldy, or affected by vinegar syndrome, among other conditions. They start by assessing the type and extent of damage each film has sustained.
Digital Scanning and Restoration – Scanning: The film is scanned frame by frame using custom-built TMTVision™ Preservation Film Scanners, which are designed to handle even the most damaged film. High resolution scanning ensures the preservation of image quality.
Special Techniques: For films with severe degradation like vinegar syndrome, brittle, warped, twisted or water damage, specific recovery methods are applied.
TMTV’s approach combines physical recovery & repair with digital technology to restore films to the highest possible quality, ensuring that historical or personal memories encapsulated in film images are preserved for future generations.
Output and Archival – Format Conversion: : TMTV ensures that the restored content is preserved on archival-quality media. The restored film images can be output to various digital formats for viewing or editing, including standard or high definition, and can be saved on different media like hard drives, SD cards, or archival DVDs.
Customer Interaction – Communication: TMTV emphasizes one-on-one personal service, where customers can directly communicate with the technician handling their project. They provide updates via email during the restoration process.
Additional Considerations – Handling of Expired Film: TMTV also processes old, unprocessed, expired film, helping to develop images that might have been thought lost and provides Video, audio, slides, picture conversions & digitization.
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