8mm movie (real film) conversion

[vwcrusher]

Can anyone suggest a method of capturing super 8 movies so they can be edited, then added to other clips and finally burned to dvd?

[jaxxboss]

Talk to DVDSTU on this Post, Im guessing he does this.
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=188054&highlight=

[DivXExpert]

What you need is a telecine machine. A good one is like 500 bucks on ebay.

[DivXExpert]

Scratch that. Its more like 8k for a good one.

[macleod]

I found at a garage sale a projector to VHS tool. It cost about $5.00 (may take a shot at ebay). Then use a cap card (or preferably a set top dvd recorder) to pull it into your computer.

[mturcott]

I've had pretty good luck with the next best method: project the movie onto a screen and use your camcorder to stream the video to your capture software. It's not perfect and you have to experiment with finding the best type of material for your screen and you may even have to use the deflicker filter in VirtualDub to remove the screen flicker but the results can be pretty good on a very low budget. I've seen a writeup on this somewhere but can't remember where at the moment. Good luck.

[jaxxboss]

LOL, according to the MPAA, that may be illegal!

[vwcrusher]

Thanks for the advice.....I wonder if there are people who have these expensive machines who do this professionally?

All I have is about 15 minutes of film......

Another question: what format should I have it captured in? AVI, MPEG2, ???

[handyguy]

".I wonder if there are people who have these expensive machines who do this professionally? "

Yep, ten cents a foot usually, just try any photo or camera store. I was looking at some of my old stuff put in vhs that way with one of those special machines & the resolution isn't all that hot. Me thinks just projecting it on a white card should be just as nice.

[winifreid]

There are a number of online companies that will do it for you. I looked a while back, but I think tha total cost was about $60 for 6 reels. But I am not sure. You can find them by googling. I did have some done years ago and it worked well.

[monoxide77]

http://www.canaantechs.com/

[BobK]

".I wonder if there are people who have these expensive machines who do this professionally? "

Yes there are. I know there are some online. I found a place near me that does it- cost me $80 to have 80 minutes converted ($1 per minute)

[vwcrusher]

thanks....I will check them out!!

[Peaceinourtime]

I have read many posts on this very subject and have experimented using various boxes of tricks. I have come to this conclusion: You can do no better than to project your image onto a plain white wall. Adust the distance between projector and wall so that you end up with a displayed image of approximately 8 inches square. Set up your video camera so that both camera and projector lenses are as near as possible on the same plane, both vertical and horizontal. Connect your camera to a monitor and make sure the projected image completely fills the screen. If you don't have a monitor, a flip-out LCD panel on your camera would suffice. Have all your camera settings on "Auto". Room must be as dark as possible. Start projector and capture the image with your camera. This is one instance where "Keeping it simple" will give you as good a result as any professional equipment costing thousands of dollars. Good Luck.

[handyguy]

Peaceinourtime, yeah but then you have to deal with the sound of the projector getting on your copy.

[fourthquark]

Peaceinourtime wrote:

Adust the distance between projector and wall so that you end up with a displayed image of approximately 8 inches square.

Just wanted to ask if "8 inches square" is correct, or is it a typo? Seems like quite a small image to capture from. Also it would put the projector quite close ot the "screen", thereby increasing the parallax error between the projector and the camera.

[vwcrusher]

One last question: what format should the converted super 8 movie be in?
Clearly, I will want to edit it........

thanks,
Allen

[DivXExpert]

Keep it uncompressed, or in HuffYUV.