flashtransferHD 16/35:
Affordable 1920 x 1080HD without
sprockets, claws, moving mirrors
or constant attention.

The factory in Berlin is abuzz as MWA Nova's new native 1920 x 1080 flashtransferHD 16/35 transfer system continues final development.

flashtransferHD 16/35 uses a laser splice detection and image stabilization system so there are no sprockets or claws involved. Just safe, smooth, continuous capstan drive movement of the film.

Shrunken film is now less of a problem to easily transfer.

The three-CCD 1920 x 1080 system works with optical and magnetic film, silent film or camera original negative or positive, and can output a variety of HD and SD formats.

Deliveries are expected to start in May. Orders may be placed at anytime.

Click here to request preliminary information and to be advised of new developments.

ONE flashscanHD replaces
four projectors, 20 computers and support employee for Arizona firm

3x faster than real-time, with a clean,
single progressive HD video frame
from each film frame.

Brad Hinkle was looking for something to seriously advance his company’s capabilities, and end reliance on modified home movie projectors that weren’t designed to handle long days of transferring film.

Hinkle compared the cost of purchasing a flashscanHD with what he was spending to run the aging, slower than real-time "frame-by-frame" units, computers, software and staff required by that workflow. Hinkle determined he could replace four projectors, 20 computers and an employee with one MWA flashscanHD from flashscan8.us.

His analysis showed he could recover the expense in six-months to a year.

A major reason to buy flashscanHD is that
a 400’ reel of silent film could be in the computer and ready to clean up in ten minutes.

It took 40 minutes to capture the same reel using his older, slower-than-real-time method, Hinkle says.

The ability to do magnetic sound was a big plus.

Nearly 30 flashscanHD 8mm/Super8 units have been delivered to users since March, 2009.

The flashscanHD units can now be equipped to include 8mm/Super8 AND 9.5mm Pathe!

This option may be useful for archives and transfer houses that encounter this unusual French center-sprocket hole format. The option is at a higher price than 8mm/Super8 units due to additional equipment and engineering to make this possible.

Get details: flashscanHD product information sheet.

Preparing a Budget for 2010?

Ask us for information and pricing on the range of MWA Nova and other products we represent.

We can help you identify potential cost-saving work flows for

• HD and SD film transfer for five film gauges
• Optical and Magnetic sound recovery
• Film output for Picture via
  flashrecord 35mm film recorder
• Quietest Optical Sound Tracks via
  LLK5 Laser Light Camera

See our full line brochure for product details

24" FSI LM-2470W Monitor
10-Bit LCD Panel
LED backlight
1080p & 4:4:4 support
Waveform/Vector/RGB Parade/Audio Meters

The FSI (Flanders Scientific, Inc.) LM-2470W is FSI's top of the line 24", Native 10 Bit LCD Panel, RGB LED Matrix Backlight, Multi-Format Broadcast Monitor.

With its native 10 Bit LCD Panel capable of producing over 1.073 Billion Colors and RGB LED Matrix Backlight the LM-2470W offers superior color reproduction and white uniformity.

The LM-2470W is designed for your most demanding color critical applications and delivers performance on par with other reference grade displays costing 2 to 3 times as much.

Waveform, Vector Scope, Picture and Picture, Audio Disembedding, and Audio Level Meter features. The LM-2470W also features instantly adjustable Gamma & Color Temperature Presets and true Multi-Format support ranging from NTSC/PAL to HD and 2K.

Get details: Click here to request information about this and the other Flanders monitors we integrate with our film transfer systems.

Grant funds for equipment, projects and possibly staff

List of potential funders can help find money to start, match or fully fund

To help you get started (or maybe finished) we've begun a list of grant funding sources that may be helpful.

It's an ongoing commitment by flashscan8.us to help our clients and potential clients find money.

Some are government sources, others are foundations or charitable trusts.

Click the link here to request our Grant Funding List.

JVC Verité monitors:
Flexible, great pictures, price

New monitors feature 4:4:4 ten-bit processing, SDI inputs for HD and SD, DVI computer inputs, a host of other features and great pictures!  Three sizes: 17", 20" and the 24" which does full-screen HD.

Click here to learn more!

LLK5 Laser Optical Sound Recorder
Quietest optical sound tracks in the world

Until the LLK series of laser optical sound cameras came along, optical sound on film was recorded with equipment designed way back in 1947.

MWA Nova developed the first major improvement in 1996, using lasers to create the quietest analog stereo optical sound tracks in the world.

The LLK5 will soon be able to write the digital sound track information at the same time!

An investment in the easy to use LLK5 is a more productive use of resources than continuing to use ribbon technology. 

It's putting Bollywood's biggest studio ahead of the competition!

Latest user: US National Archives and Records Administration as part of a film to film restoration package.

Learn what MygarFilm Labs, EuropaSound and the biggest studio in Bollywood say about the LLK here or get a product brochure by clicking here.

Matrox MXO2 and
MXO2 RACK for Mac & PC

Matrox has released several new products,
including the Matrox MXO2 RACK, MXO2 Mini for MAC and PC, and CompressHD Accelerator Card for faster than real-tme H264 HD file creation on Mac and PC.

The new CompressHD technology's been incorporated into the MXO2's to give you an option of with or without the added compression boost.

The Matrox MXO2 and new MXO2 RACK provide broadcast-quality input/output, monitoring, and up/down/cross conversion... and it's all in one system.

You are not limited to using a single codec as with some other I/O devices on the market.

The MXO2 captures to a variety of codecs - Apple ProRes 422 HQ, 10-bit uncompressed HD and many more, so you can choose the format appropriate for your archive or project.

We use it to capture 10-bit Uncompressed files from the flashtransfer via SDI during demos, and to play out the resulting files via Final Cut Pro via SDI in SD and HD to our 24" Flanders LCD monitor.

Users can benefit from file-based workflows with native support for XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, and P2.

Works with MacPro desktop and MacBookPro laptops on AC or battery power.

At $1,599 MSRP, MXO2 is less expensive than other well known products.

Works great as part of a flashscanHD, flashtransfer SD or HD package.

Get more details here from the Matrox MXO2 website, then click here to see us for your Matrox products.

Leasing offers practical
approach to purchasing

Leasing can be a way to acquire the tools you need at an affordable monthly payment, especially if banks aren't lending.

Many leasing companies can arrange payments of $1,000 to $1,500 a month on a four-year lease of $50,000, or lower payments for longer terms.

You can own the equipment at lease end for a small amount, often $1.

And there have been Section 179 Federal tax benefits that were extended by Congress for 2010.

We can connect you with leasing companies that have funded purchases for our customers, and are versed in leasing media related technology. Click here for details.

Introduces the HDPro2, a true editing solution that maintains its data rates during both editing and playback of HD and SD content!

This powerhouse delivers up to three streams of uncompressed 1920 x 1080/60 images with RAID 5 protection.

The HDPro2 can be striped for RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and JBOD.

When configured with RAID 6, fault tolerance is maintained by the world class CalDigit RAID engine, ensuring that the parity information is placed on TWO drives.

This block of data is completely separate from the drives used to store the data itself. This allows for ultimate protection, allowing up to two drives to fail, with the loss of any data.

Portability w/Laptops
Used with the CalDigit eLane-1ex ExpressCard the HDPro2 provides desktop performance in the field, enabling users to capture, develop, edit and create content in almost any environment when using Apple's MacBook Pro or Windows-based notebook.

There is no capacity limitation to any single chassis.

The HDPro2 provides safe and reliable operation, all in one package, and backed by CalDigit's THREE year warranty.

Each HDPro2 holds 8 hot swappable drive modules in a desktop tower, optional rack mount kits are available.

At under $1 per gigabyte, including the PCI card and all required accessories - it's a fraction of the cost compared to other products in its class.

Click here for details. Then e-mail with your order!

Moving edit systems and capture stations
is easy with
BigFoot Mobile Carts

Using patented designs, BigFoot Mobile Carts are a great way to make a mobile system with MWA Nova equipment at the heart.

The flashscanHD will sit right on top of the BigFoot cart, with monotors for picture and computers where you want them. The computers, hard drive array and other essentials are neatly arranged for easy use, even splicer and leader in a drawer!

With flashscanHD and a BigFoot Mobile Cart and you can put the package where the work needs to be done... in the vaults, customer's location, or around your own facility.

Designed to get video equipment around uneven football and training fields for the Oakland Raiders, BigFoot's pneumatic tires—and now airless tires— roll out a diverse line of safe, sturdy carts that hold rack mounted equipment, computers, LCD screens, desktop control surfaces, and flashscanHD systems.

Special pricing as part of a flashscan or flashtransfer package.

See more examples here on BigFoot Mobile Carts website and then click here to tell us what you need!

We're in Las Vegas during NAB 2010, demoing off site.

We'll be demoing the 16mm flashtransfer (SD) and flashscanHD (8/Super8) as both a great small gauge system, and as an example of how the software and technology work in the new flashtransferHD 16/35.

Click here to request a demo appointment.

See and fix shrinkage of Magnetic Fullcoat during playback!
Laser Shrinkage Detector:

MWA Nova's tool for sprocket-free transfer of fullcoat magnetic film (SEPMAG) now features on-screen monitoring of shrinkage in real-time, with graphic displays of the shrinkage in percent along with other metadata. Data can be saved to files for customer reports and in-house condition records.

Mounted on the renowned MB51 transport, the LSD enables up to 4% shrinkage to be corrected in real-time during the course of the transfer, keeping picture and sound in sync.

This feature enables one-pass transfers to other media, without a side-trip to a Digital Audio Workstation for laborious hand-syncing. Wow and flutter are also addressed.

SD transfer is alive and well
flashtransfer speeds 16mm or 35mm film into new uses

Gentle, high resolution transfers are what you'll get with the easy to operate flashtransfer!

It's priced well below new "big iron" telecines and is very competitive with aging used "big iron" standard definition machines that take an engineer to maintain. 

flashtransfer offers more film safety and operating flexibility than low priced units based on modified projectors. 

No pull-down claws here! Just smooth, continuous motion, sharp, colorful pictures and crisp sound from magnetic and optical tracks.

Shrunken film can often be transferred.

flashtransfer's integrated color correction is helpful when de-pinking faded color film, especially when coupled with computer based tools like Apple Color, or when connected directly via SD-SDI to high-end color correction tools like daVinci and Digital Vision.

You can do real-time transfers to tape, DVD or non-linear editors, for workflows that meet your needs.

We use the Matrox MXO2 to demonstrate uncompressed SD and uprezzed HD captures with Final Cut Pro. You can use other capture cards, computers and software.

Learn more about the flashtransfer here or click on the flashtransfer link on the left.

flashtransfers in action

The Media Preserve near Pittsburgh, PA, used the 16mm flashtransfer to help several PBS member stations as part of the PBS/CPB “American Archive” first phase.

As a result of the experience, a 16mm flashtransfer was purchased and will be installed in April.

Stations and The Media Preserve were quite pleased with the picture and sound quality, ease of use and ability to work with shrunken materials.

The flashtransfer's magnetic stripe pickup head was also used to transfer edge track sound from 16mm magnetic fullcoat on a number of stories that had been edited double-system for playback on-air, or were original elements used to make film prints.

flashscan8.us supplied a Matrox MXO2 RACK, Flanders LM2450W 24" LCD Monitor and integrated the equipment with a customer-purchased Apple MacPro 8-Core computer, 30" Apple Cinema Display and Final Cut Pro.

CEO Ted Langdell provided training for operation of the flashtransfer and Final Cut Pro which was used to capture the double-system elements, sync them and then output 10-bit or 8-bit uncompressed Quicktime files.

Digital Betacam copies were made via playback from FCP timelines through the MXO2 RACK' s SDI output feeding the DigiBeta recorder.

Read more here:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09359/1023531-67.stm

Film Archivist Alex Cherian writes:
Below are URL links to color and b&w documentaries we're currently streaming online, having remastered them using the 16mm flashtransfer.

The master QuickTime files obviously look a lot better than these mp4 files:
http://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189369

http://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/189372

I'm continuing to be very happy with this purchase.

We've recently uploaded another 20 hours of footage remastered using the flashtransfer. With many more to follow soon. Thanks for all your help.

Regards
Alex Cherian - Film Archivist
San Francisco Bay Area TV Archive

A $50,000 LSTA grant paid for most of the purchase.

The flashtransfer replaced an Elmo, and added true broadcast quality transfer capability.

flashscan8.us integrated the new flashtransfer with existing BetacamSP, 3/4" equipment, and supplied a refurbished/calibrated Textronix 1720 waveform monitor and 1730 Vectorscope for full-time QC monitoring and color correction

The producers make in and out point selections, then a software system sends the list for re-transfer at broadcast resolution.

Ask us for details and how this could be useful for your extensive newsfilm archive.

is a Front Porch Digital reseller, and can provide a full range of migration, storage and content management tools for film and video.

Demonstrated with great interest at NAB 2009, flashtransfer systems are now available with SAMMA Solo archiving systems for easy transfer and access to 16mm and 35mm film, and video tape from reel to reel and cassette sources.

Click here for a press release about the pairing.

flashrecord 35mm LED/D-ILA HD to Film Recorder
w/ 2K-4K upgrade

• Faster than an ArriLaser.
• Way less expensive.
• Comes completely ready to run and
• Doesn't require expensive maintenance.
• Oh, and can do real-time HD recording at 24fps or
• Even higher quality at 10fps!
• Smaller footprint than most systems.
• Great for Cinema Advertising output from HD files
• Low cost output for low-budget feature films

Click here or the flashrecord link to read all about it then click here to get pricing and other details!

Leasing offers practical
approach to purchasing

Leasing can be a way to acquire the tools you need at an affordable monthly payment, especially if banks aren't lending.

Many leasing companies can arrange payments of $1,000 to $1,500 a month on a four-year lease of $50,000, or lower payments for longer terms.

You can own the equipment at lease end for a small amount, often $1.

And there have been Section 179 Federal tax benefits that were extended by Congress for 2010.

We can connect you with leasing companies that have funded purchases for our customers, and are versed in leasing media related technology. Click here for details.

MWA film transfer tools are a great value. Buy now while the exchange rate is dropping.

The Euro to Dollar exchange rate has been affecting the cost of flashscanHD , flashtransfer, and flashtransferHD 16/35 packages.

That hasn't changed the value of these tools, but has made them something to purchase now, before the cost goes up again.

A change in the exchange rate can add—or subtract—thousands of dollars from a purchase.

After peaking at more than $1.60 per Euro in April, 2008, the exchange rate dropped to as low as $1.25 in December, 2008.

It hit near $1.50 per Euro in late 2009 and has since dropped into the $1.36 range. MWA equipment prices have dropped, also.

Click here for today's rate.

If you've been thinking about making a purchase, now would be a good time to do so, before the unsettled economy causes an un-necessary increase in what you'd pay.

Add broadcast monitor features to any HDMI monitor with this box

HDMI flat screens gain professional, broadcast monitor features with the new
Ensemble Designs' BrightEye 72.

This video converter goes above and beyond – it displays open captions, time code and audio presence.

The internal test pattern includes PLUGE which is needed for monitor alignment.

Combine BrightEye 72 with any HDMI monitor for high-end display applications in broadcast and post. BrightEye 72 accepts an SD, 1.5 Gb/s HD or 3 Gb/s HD SDI digital signal and outputs HDMI.

Front panel controls include: complete proc amp, built-in test signals for use in aligning the monitor, graticule, H/V pulse delay, on screen audio VU meters, timecode burn in, AFD indicator and open caption decoding.

Refurbished Picture Quality Control Monitors

Accurate setting of video
and color levels is essential to good film and video transfers.

Reliable, refurbished Waveform monitors and Vectorscopes provide the necessary tools at a price that is affordable.

This is particularly true as Standard Definition Analog gear is replaced by digital monitoring and used gear becomes available.

Our flashtransfer SD systems can use analog equipment due to their analog composite video outputs.

For our clients, we can obtain good used equipment from a number of resources, then have it refurbished by Scott Howell of MobileTek in Canoga Park (LA).

Scott's been working on Tektronix gear for more than 40 years, and knows the details about the individual models' idiosyncracies, and how to address them.

His refurbishment includes troubleshooting, repair, cleaning, calibration to a standard traceable to NIST, and a warranty on the work.

Scott's clients include a number of LA broadcast stations and networks, post houses and other users of broadcast quality monitoring equipment.

We supplied a MobilTek refurbished Tek 1730/1720 package in dual-rack mount housing to one of our flashtransfer clients for what he'd been quoted for just one half of the pair by a test equipment company.

For HD applications, we can provide a variety of options, including new or refurbished "conventional" Waveform Monitors and Vectorscopes, or digital systems that analyze an HD or SD-SDI signal and display the "scopes" on a flat-screen monitor.

Ask about the QC Options we may have available for your situation.

NEW Cobalt 9084
HD/SD-SDI RGB Color Corrector
with YCbCr Video Proc and Frame Sync

Quick color correction for those situations where an HD or SD-SDI signal needs help, and you can't send it into a workstation!

The 9084 is an RGB Corrector with YCbCr proc features and frame sync. It can process HD/SD SDI signals in all formats.

The RGB processing controls provide full offset, gain and gamma adjustments. The YCbCr proc controls provide lift, gain, saturation, phase, white clip (hard and soft), black clip, and color saturation clip. Parameter updates are very smooth and responsive, providing a completely real time feel.

The 9084 can be controlled from the card edge menu, DashBoard software, the SNMP agent software in the frame, or the OGCP-9000/CC, a remote control panel designed with a special emphasis for the 9084 Color Corrector.

Learn more about the 9084 and other Cobalt products by clcking here, then e-mail us about your needs.