by Michael Baskin | Jul 14, 2026 | Films
Every so often someone brings in a box of reels and says some version of “I think it’s 8mm but my brother swears it’s 16mm and honestly none of us know.” Totally normal. Nobody’s expected to know this off the top of their head — these...
by Michael Baskin | Jul 7, 2026 | Misc.
Somebody asked me this last week over the phone, and I could hear it in her voice — that little catch, like she was already picturing the worst-case version of dropping a box of her late father’s home movies at the UPS counter. So I want to answer this one...
by Michael Baskin | Jul 6, 2026 | Audio, Films, Multimedia, Video
Local Shop vs. Big National Service: What’s Actually Different When You’re Mailing Your Stuff In Either Way Here’s an honest thing to admit as someone who runs a local shop: if you’re mailing your tapes in no matter what, it’s a...
by Michael Baskin | Apr 10, 2017 | Films
Merging Movie film with still frames for Printing: One of the more interesting features of our film transfer process is the frame by frame capture technology. Every single frame of film is captured one by one. This has been around for a while, but in more recent...
by Michael Baskin | Mar 1, 2017 | Audio, Misc., Video
Life in 2017, is a life of immediacy. We live in a fast paced, digital world. It is not unreasonable for an employer to expect a project back, within a few hours, that used to take a few weeks. With the introduction of new and powerful computers/tablets and various...
