fsft - Equipment

Featured Services

FSFT is one of the few transfer houses in the country offering high definition transfer of Super 8mm. Transfer to HDCam, DVCPro HD, or Uncompressed 1920x1080 10bit 4:2:2 to drive

Session Link Stills is an FSFT exclusive service. We choose select images from your transfer session, create a light-box style website and email you a link to the hidden page. Ask for Session Link Stills when you book your next session.

Watch your color correction session from anywhere with Session Link Live, our streaming video service.

Video Sweetening, also referred to as tape-to-tape color correction, is a postproduction process in which we manipulate video elements to "sweeten" the picture - much as we have become accustomed to sweetening sound. more..

Equipment

Thomson SHADOW Telecine
The heart of the Shadow Telecine is a custom designed scanner.
Using the latest advancements in correlated double sampling technology
combined with custom built CCDs, this new scanner delivers incredible performance.
Features include:
HD/SD Multi-standard video outputs (Analog and Digital)
35/S35mm and 16/S16mm & Super 8mm film formats, three perf, scope
16 and 35mm composite optical sound
16mm composite magnetic sound

DaVinci 2K Plus Color Corrector
The da Vinci 2K Plus™ is the de facto standard in color enhancement, earning an Emmy award for outstanding achievement in engineering development Our 2k Plus includes the some powerful features you won't find on standard 2k systems, such as:

2 PowerTiers™ - Independent image processing channels for primary and secondary color isolation.
Increasing the number of PowerTiers amplifies the processing power.

8 PowerWindows™ - Industry standard tool invented by da Vinci for multi-layered area isolations

Defocus Plus™ - Independently soften or sharpen images

Vector Plus™ - Precise hue, saturation and luminance qualifiers that can overlap in all three color dimensions

Teranex
StarFilm - Noise Reduction and Dirt Concealment
Xantus Converter – Up, Down, Side, Cross, Standard Conversions

Aaton Keylink
Keykode, Aatoncode, Arricode Reader

InstaSync audio synchronizer: Direct, on the fly synchronization of picture
and sound during the telecine transfer from a KeyLink hard drive.

Session Link & Session Link Live
Session Link allows you to access images from sessions anywhere there’s an internet connection.
We can build a web page of images, once the page is built the system automatically sends a email
notification and the url for the web page.

Session Link LIVE allows you to access real time images from our facility in full digital component resolution.
This process creates outstanding images that match the digital source color exactly.
Resolution can be controlled to account for various internet connection speeds.
With a good connection you can expect 320 x 240 29.97fps stream.

F C P 6.0 S u i t e
FSFT offers direct to drive uncompressed 10bit 4:2:2 film transfers, as well as HD/SD video captures,
through our new FCP HD suite.

The suite is also available for editing or viewing at a rate of $200/hr with a day rate of $800 for a 10 hr day.

The FCP HD suite features:

AJA Kona2 capture card

8TB of Xraid storage

30 inch Apple Cinema Display user interface

20 inch Apple Cinema Display for HD monitoring

Sony BVM20 broadcast monitor

5 input 2 bus audio mixer

Tektronix WVR7100 scope

Adobe After Effects 7.0

Adobe Photoshop CS2

Record Formats:
HDCAM-SR(add'l charge) HDCAM, DVCProHD, Digital Beta, BetacamSP, DVCAM, MiniDV, 3/4", VHS, DVD, Sony PCM 7040 dat