Hi all,
I have a collection of super 8 cine films (old family type)
That I would like to be able to put on DVD.
What I do not know where to get done is, recording from the film into digital.
I do not have a video camera of any sort.
What I would like is to find a firm that would do the transferring then for me to edit and record to DVD.
Any idea was to start?
Michael Cant
Yellow pages. Not that cheap mind, and not that great in terms of quality either.
Regards
Mark
As ever Google is your friend
processing shops offer this service.
Make sure they use a flying spot scanner to take the image from the film. The best I believe.
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That would be far too expensive and not necessary for home 8mm movie which does not have great quality in the first place. In any case, I doubt you'd find anyone to do it that way.
Broadcasters use them in their telecine machines for 16mm and sometimes have 8mm gates available, if you have a friend in TV engineering you might get it done...
Super 8 film has "very" good resolution, and when flying spotted and put on DVD should be pristine.
I'm sure you can, I had flying spot transfer from Super 8 to video about 15 years ago from a place in Soho. The audio visual mags would advertise the service.
Or,just look around. Do a google on "flying spot scanner" and "super 8" and lots comes up.
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And pig fly....
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Soho, sounds like the film and broadcast industry quarter, unless it was one of your dodge films you were having transferred !
"super 8" and
The biggest problem is nothing to do with resolution but fps speed, standard / super 8 home cine film does not have a 'kind' fps rate that allows easy transfer to a PAL video system, un-like 35mm 16mm film - this is why many transfers suffer from frame flicker.
What a wanker. Stick to quoting websites.
Hint. 16mm film struggles to make decent TV resolution.
A friend worked for the BBC, and others, as a cameraman, and would occassionally use Super 8 for broadcast work.
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....the cabering is too much so he decides to think at bit...wait for it.....
.....I snipped the rest as it was totally inaccurate..........and he is into the Micheal Jackson sort of things it appears.......cabers is his speciality you know.....
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Flying spot scanning gets rid of flicker
Super-8 is still better quality than video. Much as people in the professional video industry try to deny this, super-8 (when shot and projected with decent lenses) has about 1000 lines of resolution, compared with about 300 from your average 8mm video camera or about 450 for a broadcast-standard 1" C-type machine.
When flying spot scanned to DVD the quality is bang on. If you want cheap quality, go to Ebay and buy a top quality second hand Super 8 camera, with some having microprocessor control. Most are like new and over 20 years old. The film and processing is expensive, but the quality is the business, even when scanned onto videotape or onto DVD. If you only use you camera for special occasions then Super * is the way to go, cheap to buy the equipment. Many small TV stations in the US used Super 8 for film reports and transferred onto video for broadcast, the quality was that good.
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Jessops were the cheapest when I was shopping around. IIRC they job it out to Kodak, who job it out to someone else. They charge per reel so it pays to splice the tapes together if there are a lot of odd bits.
That would be the same as all your 'trades' friends using PPPro tools?
In the days before domestic electronic cameras were available - and really before colour - 35mm B&W film was the norm for quality stuff made for TV. News, etc, used 16 mm.
With the advent of colour, colour 35mm stock was deemed just to expensive for most in the UK - although the US continued to use it. So 16 mm became the norm - later super 16mm which got a larger image onto the same sized film. However, as electronic cameras and recording systems became better, the use of film of any type has decreased.
*If* 8mm was ever used, it would have been for something where a small - or likely disposable - camera was *essential* as the quality can't and never did - meet the specs required *by law* then for broadcasting equipment.Stick to talking rubbish about multiple combis and sink top electric water heaters.
No it doesn't. Film - and many other video processes - are a series of single frames projected in succession to give the impression of movement. And it's generally accepted that about 25 fps is the minimum for decent results. Of course if you're transferring a film of a static object with a static camera, then the type of telecine machine makes a difference. But only vast computer processing could attempt to fill in the missing detail between adjacent frames with movement in them.
Err, which ancient website did you get this from? C format machines were obsolescent about 20 years ago when component recording became the norm.
I take it you're blind? This would explain a lot...
....from cabering he now thinks about photies...........maybe he wants to record for posterity the cabers in full colour glory....he says.....
....I have to snip for you all.......nothing was the same.... and he got absolutly nothing right......sad but true........this is what cabers does to you....
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My dear little friend, I'm a pro working in broadcasting, and have all my life. I'll send you a CV if you want. But I'd need one from you first...
Perhaps you'd ask your cameraman pal what programmes he made shot on Super
8mm film. Then everyone else can judge if your point is valid.
...he retorts......yes he does.....
....as wea ll know, cabers are not on the telly....he goes on....
.....yes he has a cabers CV...its says thing like know all about cabers....on he goes....
....now he wants cabers from me....yes he does....he spurts away....
.......he fails to see that news work is different and that Beulieu made professional super 8s, which is still used.....although not with cabers....
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So that's a no, then?
Many would find it strange when asked to supply proof for your wilder claims you never can or do.
Others know you for the charlatan you are.
.........now having been educated...is it possible to educate caber fanatics?
.....yes he say no.....a form no.....he stomps his foot snd says no.....no, no, no he says......
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