Old Home Movies Resurrected

Your film can easily be damaged by old projectors of unknown condition.

Careless operation of projector-based transfer systems can also spell disaster.

Because we use the state-of-the-art RetroScan Universal claw-less film scanner, it is simply not possible for us to damage your films.

Our Brisbane lab is located at

249 Lutwyche Rd, Windsor. Qld. 4030

We're on the corner of Bowen St, with parking in Bowen St.

We are open 9-5 AEST Monday to Friday, and 9-2 Saturday.

Ph: (07) 3357 4807

SMS: 0448 855 056

If a service is not open and honest about their film transfer methods, it actually isn't because they have any "secret process" to protect.

Some services hide behind this argument simply because they don't want the curtain pulled back to reveal the limitations of their methods.

We have nothing to hide, and you can ask to take a look at our setup anytime.

If a company will not show you their system, we suggest you look elsewhere.

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In film projectors, toothed sprockets and a small lever called an advance claw drag the film through the projector. But the claw &/or sprockets can easily damage the sprocket holes on your film. This is always a risk with projector-based systems, as shown in this photo of torn perforations in a piece of 9.5mm film.

Our system is claw-less & sprocket-less, and gently tensions and guides the film without touching the perforations at all, ensuring we cannot tear them. So your film is safe.

Hot lamps in projector-based systems can easily burn your film, causing irreparable damage.

They also tend to produce overly-bright "hot spots" in your picture, as seen below.

With it's cool white LED light source, our system can never burn your film & introduces no colour cast. Illumination is evenly disbursed so there's no washed out "hot spot" in the middle of your picture.

Frame-by-frame, or FxF scanning is a system that digitises each individual frame of film as a separate snapshot. These are then played back at the correct frame rate to give you a movie.

Other systems do not give you a discreet snapshot for each frame, but instead a video approximation of your film's content. Blurry double frames & interlacing give lower quality results.

There is a mild type of flicker caused by a projector's shutter blades. This is apparent even when watching film projected on a screen.

But there is also a much more annoying pulsing effect, caused by differences in frame rate between projector and camcorder in projector-based systems when not operated carefully.

With us you get neither.

Because our system is a true frame-by-frame system (not projector-based), we can guarantee zero flicker in our digital transfers.

Projector-based transfer systems are limited in how much of the film frame they can actually capture, by the size of the film gate opening.

Our system has no such gate, so no such limitation. We can position our camera to capture more picture around the edges of the film frame that lesser systems will crop off.

It could mean the difference between cutting off Aunt Mildred's head, or keeping her in one piece!

Because there are no Standard Def TVs anymore, it makes sense to choose a service that can digitise your film in Full High Def. This will mean that your movie will not need to be "upscaled" by your TV in order to fill the screen.

As the image shows, Full High Def 1080p frame size is almost six times larger than Standard Def.

So instead of your TV having to enlarge a Standard Def film transfer by almost 600% to fill your TV (with the accompanying softening of picture & possible pixellation), your RetroMedia Full High Def film transfer naturally fills* your TV screen without any upscaling.

*NB: Because the film formats we transfer are almost all 4x3 aspect ratio, and today's TVs are widescreen 16x9, we'll insert vertical black bars (a.k.a "pillar-boxing") to fill the sides of the screen, as shown below.