Author: Ade

  • Stopmotion film scanning

    Stopmotion film scanning

    A Multi plane animation stand, repurposed to backlight and scan 35mm film.

    Home film scanning and projector set ups have built up a sizeable niche movement over recent years, no doubt fired up by the availability of higher resolution digital cameras and the resurgence in analogue film interest. Youtube and social media are awash with examples of various DIY attempts to capture old film collections, or to scan home developed film. While it’s possible to tape a 35mm slide to a bright window, then take a photo, generally the simplest practical set ups take the form of a tripod/copy stand, back light and camera..sometimes tethered to a computer.

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  • Scratchtapes Interface

    I’ve just added a new mini pack to the Scratchtapes page. Interface, which started out as a free template, is a collection of 10 Final Cut Pro templates, for creating retro sci fi, lo tech interfaces and communication screens.

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  • Old school archives

    A new area has just been added to the site, to make a home for the back catalogue archives from the early days of the Chill Factor banner. Most of these mainly snow/skate titles are no longer in distribution, with one or two masters still in need of clean up, before uploading.

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  • Scratchtapes: Interface Free

    To celebrate May 4th I’ve created a micro pack of retro sci-fi interfaces for Final Cut Pro. The pack consists of four variations of 1980s inspired, science-fiction interfaces and heads up displays. This micro pack is entirely free to use for both personal and commercial projects. As a bonus there are also two text templates, using the Syncro Let font, as well as an audio effects preset for voice processing those droid style comms.

    May the fourth be with you.

  • FRAME DAMAGE: Film FX Rebooted

    The Scratchtapes Film FX packs are being updated, with a rollout of several micro packs coming over the spring /summer.. Frame Damage Vol2, is a collection of 10 Final Cut Pro effects and a few flare and film clutter transitions, with simple to use controls for adding anything from subtle frame flickers, to extreme film damage effects.

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