Trust our award-winning quality to save your precious memories. ScanCafe converts your 35mm film into digital video, with sound captured, transferred in-house in the USA.
3500+ Reviews20+ YearsDigitized in the USA
35mm has been the top medium for motion pictures for over a hundred years, and many early reels have been lost, so the ones that survive are valuable. Digitizing your 35mm film sooner rather than later is the best way to preserve it. Here's what you get when you convert 35mm film to digital with us.
We use frame-by-frame color correction when we convert your 35mm film to digital, and we capture both magnetic and optical sound.
Every reel is cleaned and scanned in-house at our Indianapolis lab, never outsourced, and we guarantee the safe handling of your films. Your original film always goes back to you, on its original spools.
Your film is spot cleaned, and simple repairs like bad splices are handled for you at no additional charge.
We've designed the whole process
to be as pain-free as possible.
Place your order online with an estimate of your film, then pack your reels in a sturdy box and send them to us.
Our technicians clean, view, scan and edit each reel at our Indianapolis lab.
Get your digital movies by download, Kinoke app, or on a USB drive for editing. Your original film comes back too.
Your 35mm film collects dust and debris over time, which can leave visible specks and imperfections in your digitized movies.
Every reel we process includes professional cleaning and restoration to help bring your films back to life:
Physical cleaning to remove surface dirt and debris
Digital cleanup to remove visible dust and specks
Minor film repairs to fix damaged splices
Scene-by-scene color correction for more natural, consistent colorsWhen our highly skilled technicians convert film to digital, they use cutting-edge tools to transform faded celluloid memories into forever digital formats. These include a German-made MWA machine, Swiss Agiscan software, and a Mac computer to convert analog to digital.
An autocolor feature is utilized for frame-by-frame color correction, and Adobe Premiere Pro is used for cropping and in/out edits. Whether your film has magnetic or optical sound, our sophisticated technology enables capturing and digitizing the audio.
But equipment is only half the story. Before any reel goes onto our machines, a technician cleans, repairs and splices it by hand and adds a leader.
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Choose the digitizing option that works best for your collection.
À la carte pricing
Flat-rate pricing
Have other photos, film reels, or videotapes you'd like to preserve? Explore our other digitizing services to find the right solution for your old media.
We do clean your movie film, both physically and electronically. This is an important quality step, because old movie film can often be amazingly dirty. Your film will be spot cleaned and simple repairs like bad splices will be handled for you at no additional charge.
The length of the film can be estimated using the following chart:
Please leave film in the original packaging. If you group and label your originals inside your box, we will scan your order accordingly and your USB if opted will be organized as such. If you choose to label film, we ask that you keep the copy relatively short (20 characters or so). You can also fill out a titles worksheet we have available online when you place your order. Make sure this worksheet corresponds to how you label the reels, because we’ll use your information to make chapter titles on your USB.
For example, if you send in five 8mm reels, you could label them 1,2,3,4 and 5. Then on the titles worksheet, where it indicates reel #1, you could write "Christmas 1954", and so on. Or you could simply write "Christmas 1954" on both the reel and the titles worksheet. For additional packing tips, click here.
The best answer is, it doesn't matter! For nearly any conceivable movie film format that you have, chances are it's either 8mm, 35mm, Super 8mm, or 16mm. And our price for all of those is exactly the same.
A quick way to check: if your movie film is on a reel, and it has sprocket holes, then chances are excellent we can scan it.
The cost to convert 35mm film to digital is $0.34 per foot of film, plus your chosen delivery option (digital download, USB, or hard drive).
Friendly, first-class service. My most recent project involving the scanning of a few hundred photos, many over 75 years old, was fantastic. The finished qualit...
When I started this process I was skeptical. How can I just pack up all my precious pictures and send them off somewhere? As it turned out this was the best thi...
I sent about 130 pictures in to be put on a USB stick, and very pleased with the result. Digital images look great, and I shared with my family. Very happy with...
ScanCafe was a great place to have my photo negatives turned into digital images. The images came out great and the negatives came back to me in perfect conditi...
I just finished downloading the digital files from a dozen old 16MM family films that I submitted. All of them were shot in the mid to late 1950's and were sure...
Scancafe delivered high quality 35 mm slide scan as promised. Customer service was effecient. Important memories were rescued :)
Helpful staff, careful treatment of our slides, great care with keeping slides in order, and packaging them for posting. Highly recommend
I have trusted ScanCafe (nee GoPhoto) with many, many treasured photographs over the years. They are always returned exactly the way I sent them and I am absolu...
Great service and quality wrt digitizing some of my APS film.
