Rick Prelinger’s San Francisco

Electric Pictures is a full service boutique telecine | film transfer facility located in the Lake Forest California.

We offer competitive pricing with personal hands-on customer service. Our engineering background ensures both creative and technical excellence in our transfers.

With an in-depth knowledge of the process and possibilities, we are professionals with a suite of gear that ensures excellence. See our technical pages for details.

Our primary service is film transfer using our native high definition telecines.

We Transfer:

-35 mm negative, positive, and mag film, with optical audio or silent

-16 mm negative, positive, and mag film, with optical or mag audio, or silent

-Super8 negative, and positive, with mag audio, or silent

-Regular 8 positive

Output is delivered on hard drives to major editable formats, including:

-uncompressed AVI, Quicktime, or DPX

-compressed formats- ProResHQ, DNxHD, MP4, H.264