Bono supports the important mission of institutions large and small to protect,
preserve, and provide access to their collections.
We are proud of our long-term record of service to the National Archives
and other libraries and repositories of our film treasures.

Our high definition and related services are handled by Bonolabs, our technical initiatives division opened in 2002. Bonolabs pioneered the "tapeless" direct film-to-drive workflow in 2003. To our explore our range of services and to download our high definition pricelists, visit Bonolabs.com.

  • High Definition : Hi Def  direct to SATA hard drives.  This is a film to HiDef 1920 x 1080 full bandwidth telecine transfer. Unsupervised best light, flat or scene-to-scene color correction transfers. Tapeless options include 10-bit uncompressed ready-to-edit files for MAC or PC; DVCPro HD compressed files for MAC only, or HDV (720p or 1080i) for MAC or PC.

  • Related services include: upconverts from Digi beta to 720p or 1080i  or 1080p- direct to drive; downconverts to file or out to Digi beta.  You can now order MPEG4 preview files from your transferred items.

  • PAL high definition direct to drive options; HD & SD telecine tapeless PAL transfers and tape-to-drive PAL formatted files

Related Services

Upconverts Downconverts

Cineglyph (NOVA HD) telecine
& Da Vinci

Multiple formats & resolutions
Inverse anamorphic, pillarbox, or 16x9
R8-S8mm, 16/S16 & 35mm telecine gates


 


 

 
From digital betacam, 1-inch, D-2 To digital betacam
Cross-converts only file based

 

1080 24p

1080p

 

 

1080i

720p

 

direct to hard drive

  • 1080/24p (23.98SF) 10-bit uncompressed MAC or PC files or compressed DVC Pro HD & HDV files

  • 10-bit uncompressed PAL

  • delivered on external hard drives or FTP (where possible)

  • 1080 25p (PC side only)
  • 1080i (25)
  • 1080i (50)
  • 720p/25
  • 720p/50

 
 

 

  

Virtual screeners: MPEG4 preview files for download are also available. Please see below.
  Want to get a sneak preview of the material you ordered
from the National Archives?
Now you can download MPEG4 files of the items you
need to preview.
Want to know more?

Revised: 3 September 2009