I need to digitize a few sound reels of 16mm fullcoat mag stock. Do you
know of any indie facilities have equipment that can do this (such as a
Magnatech mag reel machine), or even 16mm sound playback equipment that
could be hooked up to a portable digital recorder? I'm based in Chicago,
but as it
Can you find a 16 mm flatbed that works?
On Aug 10, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Rob Christopher wrote:
I need to digitize a few sound reels of 16mm fullcoat mag stock. Do you know of
any indie facilities have equipment that can do this (such as a Magnatech mag
reel machine), or even 16mm sound playback
It's not an indie and it wasn't cheap, but Deluxe Northvale (New Jersey)
just did a very good job for us. I assume Duart can do this too.
Best regards,
Dennis Doros
Milestone Film Video/Milliarium Zero
PO Box 128 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640
Phone: 201-767-3117 / Fax: 201-767-3035 / Email:
I've worked mostly with places in Vancouver, but I find that a lot of
soundhouses still have their old magnatechs around and are not using them. So
if you hit the right group of people they might just charge you a flat rate to
dump the sound onto a hard drive (hopefully the reels don't need a
On Aug 10, 2013, at 10:09 AM, George, Sherman sgeo...@ucsd.edu wrote:
Can you find a 16 mm flatbed that works?
It won't hold sync unless you put a shaft encoder on the flatbed and use that
to lock to a sync reference -- you could use a Universal Sync Driver from
Digidesign which has an
Actually, some of the flatbeds out there will lock to 60 Hz line... I know
my Magnasync Moviola will.
The problem with the flatbeds is that the audio quality is godawful, they
are not really designed for low flutter just for quick and dirty auditioning
of tracks.
--scott
Following up on Mr. Doros' response here, DuArt can perform digital
transfers of 16mm fullcoat mag. We're also neither indie nor cheap.
Erik Piil
DuArt Restoration
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Dennis Doros milefi...@gmail.com wrote:
It's not an indie and it wasn't cheap, but Deluxe