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[Doramius]

Ever tried to rent reels or borrow reels from an archive? Yeah, not easy.

Been There! Done That! Still Do!

There's hardly anyone that offers them. I used to purchase R2Rs from an educational archive place, but their stock is mostly gone. Not much in the way of good movies to get from them either.

Right now I'm trying to find a place to convert 8mm R2Rs to DVD. THe local campus machine doesn't go that small. I found out the hard way. My father gave me some of his old home movies from when he was in the Air Force back in the mid to late 50's. I want to surprise him and put them on DVD. My best alternative is to set up a screen and camcorder. I'll have to run the R2R back facing front and show it from the opposite side of the camcorder if I do it that way, so I can record straight on. This is not going to be fun. I'm just glad there's no audio on the film.

[JohnnyCNote]

Check this place out: Video Transfer Center

I worked there in the late 80's. Ask for Barry and tell him Johnny C-Note sent you. He'll know who you mean.....

[Doramius]

Where's the fun in having someone else do it? :P I do all my own R2R transfers. I know of a place here in Vegas that may let me do it myself. I would have used them for the other R2Rs I have, but I can do it at the local campus virtually any time I have available. The A/V rooms are rarely all booked.