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Smoke Damaged Documents and How to Recover Through Scanning

  Recovering your Documents & Records  We are supporting a client with their large archive of documents which has suffered smoke damage from a fire that occurred in their building.   Fortunately for our clients, the documents were in their fireproof safes so apart from smoke damage they survived fairly well. Preserving vital corporate and historical documents is a huge responsibility as the papers have to be kept safe and intact for years to decades. To combat the inevitable aging or damage of papers, clients find solutions in document scanning services where physical deterioration of papers is no longer an issue. Paper documents are definitely vulnerable to floods, fires, and other natural disasters. The last thing you will want is to see them vanish without any backups. Losing vital papers will absolutely have a significant impact on your business and you do not want this to happen. In maintaining electronic files, data loss is no longer an issue. Leaving vi...

Sony U-Matic Video Tape Conversions to Pro-Res HD

  Professional Video Tape Transfer in SD and HD to all Digital Outputs. Our Audio-Visual studio boasts an impressive collection of broadcast machines to include Sony U-matic tape decks for the conversion of all U-matic tapes. We are working extensively with a large production company, working with an NDA for the complete archive of their AV tape collections to broadcast quality Pro-Res digital files.   If we can support you with your archive collection of magnetic video tape, please do contact cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com or call 01865 457000. Our studio has been transferring video tapes to digital formats for over 12 years, working with production houses, archives, museums and broadcasters in the UK and Europe. We are highly recognised and recommended as one of the leading digitisation companies, supporting clients from short order to complete archive collections. Our Audio-Visual conversion system is built around the World leading AWS Elemental systems to ...

Heythrop Zoo Photographic Negative Film Scanning

PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM SCANNING A project we have recently completed has been converting an archive of photographic medium format film into high quality digital images, suitable for online presence. To ensure a high quality output, we need follow important processes: The correct scanner for converting this medium The software to best capture the scanners capability ICC profiles for calibration Cleaning and maintenance of the film White glove approach due to oils on fingers Dust control These processes are all very important to bring out the very best in the film. One scanner or software approach will never offer the best solutions for our clients. Our studio is equipped with many different types of scanners which are all controlled by Silverfast Archival software, which offers leading innovation to bring about the very best in all photographic film. In the film world, medium format has moved from being the most widely used film size (the 1900s through 1950s) to a niche used by professio...