{"id":8593,"date":"2020-07-16T07:42:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T06:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2020-11-15T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T09:32:25","slug":"digitising-film-archive-in-hd-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/digitising-film-archive-in-hd-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitising film archive in HD: 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/07\/2020-07-06-14.30.08-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8599\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/07\/2020-07-06-14.30.08-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Seen for the first time in HD, it&#8217;s Morphy Day c1972. Digitised from 8mm film you&#8217;ll see Morphy Day, as you may never have seen it before. Well, you might have seen it, but only if you had viewed the actual 8mm colour film, but that&#8217;s unlikely.<\/p>\r\n<p>Morphy Day was filmed on Super8 for inclusion in STOIC&#8217;s news programme called TOPIC. Sadly the spool is undated, and I&#8217;m not surprised. They were extremely bad at archiving; unless of course I moaned at them. This spool, along with some others, seems to have slipped through the net. So, I&#8217;m second-guessing at a rough date of around Autumn term of 1972.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/07\/2020-07-06-14.47.59-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8600\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/07\/2020-07-06-14.47.59-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Recently, I bought, for myself, an 8mm film scanner. This is not a projector, but rather a device to capture each film frame, one by one. A standard 50 foot reel of 8mm film takes about 30 mins to capture in HD. As I have many reels of my own film in both Standard 8 and Super8 formats, it was a worthwhile purchase. Having completed all of my personal films, I&#8217;m moving on to the archive collection.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/07\/vlcsnap-2020-07-07-15h13m32s253.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8598 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2020\/07\/vlcsnap-2020-07-07-15h13m32s253-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The film scanner has a built in screen to show the frames being scanned, but I connect it to an external monitor to see better whether I have the exposure and other adjustments set correctly. Then it&#8217;s just a case of sitting back and waiting for the scan to end. I make some adjustments to exposure and colour in post-production after the scan is complete. The end result is vastly improved over the previous version that I put up in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/morphy-day-c-1972\/\">2016<\/a> and of course it&#8217;s now in HD.<\/p>\r\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2O4_ztiAq5U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw July 2020<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/about-the-video-archive-blog\/\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"146.179.33.29\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"firstname\" name=\"firstname\" \/><label for=\"lastname\">Leave This Blank Too:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"lastname\" name=\"lastname\" \/><label for=\"uri\">Do Not Change This:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"uri\" name=\"uri\" value=\"http:\/\/\" \/><\/span><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" placeholder=\"Enter email address...\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digitised from 8mm film you&#8217;ll see Morphy Day, as you would never have seen it before&#8230;in HD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3921,18461,82],"tags":[212,89,18467],"class_list":["post-8593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-college-history","category-student-life","tag-stoic","tag-students","tag-tv-studio"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcL1pf-2eB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8593"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8593\/revisions\/9099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}