DUPLICATION
Professional Broadcast Tape Conversion & Digital Transfer Services
Analogue & Digital Transfers
We provide duplication and digital transfer services, video & audio restoration, standards conversion and digital file encoding.
With our expertise and technology we can produce high-quality transfers to digital format of most broadcast videotapes (such as Digi-beta, DVCAM and HDV) as well as consumer-level formats like mini DV and VHS.
We can provide you with a finished master on either DVD, Blu-Ray, or as digital files in the format of your choosing.
Based in Glastonbury, Somerset, we are well placed to serve the surrounding area of Bath, Bristol, Yeovil and Taunton as well as offering our services nationally.
Within 15 years' experience of working in the post production industry, Alex spent 5 of those working as a media operator at Ascent Media/4MC (Wardour Street, Soho).
He worked with every broadcast videotape format imaginable and also extensively in encoding, audio laybacks, restoration and full broadcast QC’s for clients such as Universal, BBC, Abbey Road and Paramount.
Contact our production manager Tasha to discuss your project or provide us with few details for a quick quote.
Digitising Services
We transfer a vast range of broadcast videotape formats and also consumer-level recordings to digital files.
Broadcast Formats:
U-Matic (low band, high band and SP), Beta-SP, Beta-SX, MPEG IMX, Digi-Beta, DVCAM, DVCPRO - 625 OR 525
HDCAM, HDV
Non-broadcast Formats:
VHS, SVHS, VHS C, SVHS C, Mini DV (PAL or NTSC),
HI-8/VIDEO 8, 8MM VIDEO (PAL), DVD
Audio Formats:
DAT, DA-88, DA-98HR, MiniDisc, CD, Cassette tape, Vinyl
Digitisation Hardware:
2x Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Ultrastudio Express HD,
2x Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle HD, Blackmagic Hyperdeck Studio HD, Blackmagic ATEM SDI video capture, Blackmagic Synch Generator.
Digital File Encoding
We can encode your video or audio to any format for digital distribution or editing - from ProRes 4444 XQ to MP4 and everything in-between.
Video Restoration
We use a combination of hardware and software tools to restore your video and audio.
Hardware:
Blackmagic Teranex 2D processor, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic SDI & HDMI switchers, Blackmagic Hyperdeck Studio, Snell & Wilcox ARC 125, Snell & Wilcox Alchemist Platinum, Snell & Wilcox Mach 1, Snell & Wilcox compression pre-processor.
Video Restoration Processes:
DeInterlace, up/down conversion, cross conversion, standards conversion, noise reduction, time base corrector, cadence detect and remove, adjustable scaling, aspect ratio conversion.
Software:
After Effects, Topaz Video AI, DaVinci Resolve, Digital Anarchy, Boris FX and Red Giant.
Video Restoration Processes:
DeFlicker, DeInterlace, DeBand, DeBlock, DeArtefact, DeNoise, Broadcast Safe, dropout fixer, digital video fixer, lens corrector, dust and scratches clean-up, noise reduction, optical stabiliser, re-framer, pixel fixer, UpRes, wire removal, Beauty Studio.
AI Video Restoration:
Noise removal, DeInterlace, 4K upscale, 8x slow motion, stabilisation, correction of rolling shutter and jittery motion, motion DeBlur, adding film grain.
Audio Restoration
We can digitise and restore analogue recordings using a range of hardware and software including AI.
Hardware:
Tascam digital meter unit, PPM meters, Blackmagic Audio Analyser, Tascam DA-98HR, Sony DAT PCM-7040.
Software:
Adobe Encore, DaVinci Fairlight, Boris FX, CrumpolePOP, Apple Logic.
Audio Restoration Processes:
EQ and dynamics processing, noise reduction, isolate voice from background, traffic, wind and russle remover, pop and echo remover.
Photographic Transfer
We transfer your negatives and slides to 14 mega pixel JPEGs, supplied to you on a DVD, USB stick or via WeTransfer.
35MM NEGATIVE (135, 3:2)
35MM SLIDE (135, 3:3)
110 NEGATIVE (4:3)
126 NEGATIVE (1:1)
We also transfer mobile phones photo or videos, hard drives out of casing and old memory cards (SD Card etc.. mention all cards) to USB sticks.
DUPLICATION SERVICES
WORKING WITH THE NATIONAL GALLERY
In 2023 we partnered with The National Gallery to undertake the digital archiving and restoration of their entire videotape collection.
Producing high-quality digital transfers from a range of formats including U-Matic, Betacam, DAT, Hi8, DVCam, MiniDV and HDV.
We also provided services to log the footage in detail and extract searchable metadata enabling the historic content to be easily accessed.
Thank you for all the assistance and the services provided; it’s been a lengthy process but has been made easy with your organisation and diligence.
Flying Tiger have been helpful and reliable throughout our tape digitisation project, with physical formats dating back to the early 1980’s and content spanning nearly 40 years.
- Jon Sheldon, Audio Visual Production Manager at The National Gallery
DUPLICATION
Alex’s technical knowledge is considerable and
broad-based.
International Broadcast Facility
Neal’s Yard
Alex is extremely reliable and proactive with a thorough knowledge of TV Broadcast Operations.
Technicolour
Soho
While working at Ascent Media, Alex has worked for a number of high profile clients including Universal, Warner Bros, BBC, and Buena Vista.
Ascent Media
142 Wardour Street
