In response to our clients persistent requests to have their images go directly to their computer hard drives, Pro8mm has added a hardware encoder to our transfer services. Our new encoder can produce true 10 Bit uncompressed quick time files, along with medium compression such as DV or highly compressed forms such as Mpeg4. The output will be available on CD for small files, DVD-R and DVD+R dual density for medium size files, and a docking station for removable hard drives.

June 22 & 23 at the Wadsworth Theatre and Fairground in West Los Angeles.

Beautiful Beyonce, captured on Pro8 film for a music video to be released later this year, lit up our telecine room with her glamorous style. Even colorist Phil Vigeant could not make her look any more stunning!

In his first solo album titled PLEASE COME HOME, lead singer Dustin Kensrue of THRICE has just completed a music video shot entirely on Pro8mm film. The video is of the title song PISTOL, and aired this winter inside Target stores nationwide. Filmed in a documentary style by Cinematographer Jeff Stewart, the two camera MAX 8 Shoot utilized more than 75 rolls of Pro8/18. The MAX 8 was used to create 16x9 framing and for sync recording.

If you are a Pro8mm client who has your work on the web, we will give you a link on our website for any work that has Pro8mm/Pro16mm footage in it. Send to Rhonda@pro8mm.com (Pro8mm photo by Rei Sutton Photography �)

Daniel Jacobo, Professor of Television and Radio Broadcast Production, Cinema History, and Cinema Production at Chaffey College in California is to be applauded for his innovative curriculum that puts super 8 cameras in the hands of all his production students. He has been awarded funding to build a complete production studio, which in addition to all the high end digital video gear includes six MAX 8 cameras and a two dozen Kinoflex’s.

John From Cincinnati, David Milch’s next project, post-Deadwood, is described as "surf noir" and was written by Milch with the collaboration of author Kem Nunn. In an article from Variety.com, Milch describes John from Cincinnati as “about surfing and the tragic, incoherent world at the border of Mexico and the United States ... It’s where the water’s polluted, and nobody has documents.

In an e-mail to one of our project coordinators, Nik Venet writes, “The super 8 you just processed and telecined is for two music videos that will have play on French MTV, and there is some stuff that we are incorporating into a short we shot on 35mm. I also made a super 16 music video for a French Band called Pleymo that you did the bonus material for. You can see it on my website. It was nominated for Best Video at Victories de las Musique. It’s the equivalent of a Grammy inFrance. It’s a pretty big deal. Check it out.

Now in its second season, ABC’s “What About Brian,” is a contemporary, heartwarming ensemble drama that continues to tell the stories of a group of close-knit friends in various stages of romantic relationships and friendships living in Los Angeles. For the final episode of the season, they rented a MAX 8 camera and shot 8 rolls of Pro8/18.

There is still time to enter the THINK BIG SHOOT SMALL FESTIVAL!

Shoot a creative project on one roll of Pro8mm film with all edits done in the camera.

First prize is a MAX 8 CAMERA valued at $3,500!

All inclusive entry fee of $88.88 includes the film, processing, full scene to scene color corrected transfer DVD, Private party and screening to be held on June 24th in Los Angeles during Cinegear Weekend, which coincides with the beginning of the LA Film Festival.

Download your entry form at www.pro8mm.com, or e-mail our festival director, Kris, Kris@pro8mm.com

In a recent email we received from the band's production company, Ethan writes that “partner Jay and I wanted to let you know that our video for the band Permanent Me has been released. We couldn’t be happier with the results (and the same goes for the record label, Island/Defjam) we got using your cameras, reformatted Vision2 /250D, processing and telecine. Please forward this along to the guys in the telecine as well, since it is also their work we are proud of.”

of The 2007 Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center 19th Annual Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival held on February 17th. The festivals founder, Al Nigrin started it as a Super8 only festival back in 1988 as a spin off the larger New Jersey Film Festival. Every year the festival attracts over 150 entries from around the world.