We will come to you, collect your media, convert it here in
the Tyne Valley, and then return it to you along with your new digital masters. Be safe in the knowledge that your family photographs, etc. will
only be in our hands throughout the whole process.
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Complete Multimedia solutions
Our Multimedia service is a complete solution covering all the common media types, film, slides, CDs, LPs, video tapes. No
need to go to 3 or 4 different providers to convert your different media
types. After picking up your media, converting it, and returning it to
you, we then import it into your media player so you can use it immediately. Finally we can also provide the necessary hardware to store
and play your
media, including external hard drives, iPods, networked media players and
more. A perfect solution for those people who just want to get on with
the business of enjoying it, and not worry about the technicalities of how to
do it.
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The Best Hardware - see the difference!
We have state of the art hardware to
get the best possible results. For
example; for films we use Nikon professional film scanners incorporating Digital ICE. See
the potential for yourselves, send us 3~4 frames and we will scan them
for free, then send you the results so that you can see the MMC
difference on your own photographs.
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Scanning equipment comparison Click
on the images to zoom in. Note the flatbed scanner is
essentially max'ed out with all the options deployed to display
the best possible result. However the Nikon scanner has ample headroom left,
still with flexibility to deploy grain
reduction etc.. Even just using ICE, the
details and sharpness are clearly more apparent which would also be
duplicated in any photo prints.
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| Equipment |
Consumer ~£100 film & slide
flatbed scanner |
Professional Nikon film &
slide scanner |
| Comparison |
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| Processing |
Dust & Grain removal with
Instant fix Photoshop |
Digital ICE only |
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The Latest Software - hear the difference!
In addition to the best hardware, we have the latest
software. For example, our CD ripping
software uses in built C2 error and Jitter detection. All errors are
corrected before encoding. This means that you will never hear errors in your ripped CD
collection. If the errors cannot be successfully corrected,
the track will be rejected. As a demonstration we have
ripped a scratched CD using some popular Media Players (with error
correction enabled when available), ripped it again using our solution and
then extracted the same passage from the mp3 files.. Hear the difference!
Multimedia Convert
& see the CD itself...
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We do this for a living and know the pitfalls but more
importantly, the solutions
Have you ever ripped a bunch of CDs only to find Album
art is either missing or just plain wrong?, or track names are a mixture of capitals
and lower case, or
worse, your media player rearranges everything, renaming and separating tracks
from perfectly good albums? These are some of the pitfalls when
digitizing. Thankfully there are solutions, for example we get your CD
album art and information from licensed Metadata providers. Our software
checks the track information to ensure Artist / Album consistency. We
apply capitalisation rules to rename tracks. These are just some of
the little things that add up to provide the best possible service without
you enduring the painful lessons.
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The Time involved
Digitizing your collection will be time consuming! The average CD rip takes 5 minutes (load, look up meta data, rip,
unload), then another 5 minutes to correct art and tagging errors. Scanning films and slides realistically 3 minutes / frame (load, preview
& scan, unload), then another minute or two tweaking it in a photo
editor. Converting your old vinyl LPs is the playing time + the
same time again filtering, separating & tagging the individual tracks. Capturing a video is the length of the video + the same again adding
well placed chapters for a DVD production.
Say your collection contains ~20 films, ~150 CDs &
~12 video tapes, this equates to 121 hours. Assuming your really
keen (at least in the beginning) and plan to devote 2 hours a night to
this project, 5 days a week until finished. Set aside 12
weeks! Alternatively, just call us and go and do something else instead!
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Try before you buy
Still not
convinced? Send us 3~4 film frames or a couple of CDs or a video
tape, we'll convert a sample for free and let you see the results for yourself. Please call 0191 6402095 / 01228 808195 or
email
sales@multimediaconvert.co.uk to make arrangements.
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