How to convert old super 8 films into digital material ?

[macmithos]

Hi Pals !!!
I have some old super 8 films that I would like to make it a digital material to be edited and than authoring a DVD. Does anybody could help me ?

[broaddd]

The first step to do it at home could be projecting it as, say, a foot wide image on a white wall, and capturing it with a DV camera.

[BernieR]

With this you might consider having a professional who has the right equipment capture it into a digital format, then you could edit that. In my town there are small businesses that will take your media in almost any format and convert it to your liking for a fee.

Bernie

[robguy]

A couple of years ago, I had old 8mm film from 1959-1963 transfered to DVD by Walgreens. Quality ok; though I would have preferred they would have transferred to DVD, and not put their duplicating equipment in the "auto" mode, which resulted in loss of contrast, detail and color. Some scenes looked like it was midnight. Other scenes were way too bright. Cost: About $250.

Still, it's better than nothing. I took it into Pinnacle Studio 8 and added music and brightened previously too-dark scenes. Did the fine-tune frame-by-frame editing in Womble MPEG Video Wizard, and used TMPGEnc DVD Author to add a motion menu and then burn.

[edDV]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=222267&start=30

[BernieR]

there you go macm!
ask and ye shall receive GREAT advice!



Bernie

[G13]

http://www.yalefilmandvideo.com/S8_and_R8.htm

I've used this place to have Super 8 and 16 mm Transferred to DV. Highly recommended.