Super 8 to DVD Transfers?

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

I am wondering if anyone has had their super-8 home movies transferred to DVD before. I'm not talking about shooting a video of the screen while showing a movie, but having the film scanned by high-end equipment and professionally tweaked and transferred to DVD. I am afraid it would cost a fortune, and I'm wondering how good the results would be.



I just tried watching some home movies tonight but my last bulb died 5 minutes into the first reel. Kinda sucks after spending 20 minutes rounding things up, putting up the screen, putting on the reels and threading the projector



Finding affordable bulbs for this 41-year old Bolex projector isn't that easy. It would be nice to transfer to DVD to save wear & tear on the old film as well.



We thought about doing video transfer in the '90s but we've always been fine with dragging out the projector and throwing up the screen anytime we wanted to watch something. But now that the family is getting spread around the country putting stuff on DVD to share would be nice.



Vaughn

 

[Casey Ray]

I remember seeing a guy on eBay, that you send him your 8mm and he does the transfer, if I remember correctly it was not that expensive.



I found a link, here it ---> IS <---



Casey

 

[E7mack96]

we just had this done for my wifes' mother. We had like 41 reels of film. The cost was only around $150. 00. I had thought it was too good of a price. It turned out that i was right. The conversion was ok, but the images were dark, and they did not put them in order on the dvd. We had numbered the reels for them too.



I had started converting them here. It takes a long time. THe family decided it was taking too long. I had gotten some super-white paper (100+) and mounted it on a wall. I kept the super8 projector close to the wall so the image just fit this 8x11 paper. It made the image nice and bright. My everio camcorder was set up to record as the movie played. THis worked really well, but took a LOT of time. WE could watch it on the big screen and it looked good. a lot better than the same reels done "professionally".



E7

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Thanks for the link Hoof. I have about 20 of the 400 foot (7" reel) so that would cost $630



E7 I may think about trying with my camcorder, I assumed it wouldn't turn out that good. At least that way you could get the projector sound too



I think for now though I'll just be ordering up more CXR bulbs and keep doing it the old fashioned way



Vaughn

 

[KBennett]

I just got back from my great Uncle's in Florida. He did the same thing with the projector and video camera. When played on a 25" TV I thought it looked pretty good.