[ale] converting old 8mm film to dvd

[ale at doc-x.net (Dylan Northrup)]

That's effectively what is done.  The mechanisms for doing this will depend
on the time and expense, but that's pretty much the only way to get analog
to digital.

I believe high end restoration folks do something fancier where they take
individual frames, "photograph" them then stitch those frames together to
make a movie and put it on DVD, but that's a lot more effort intensive and
requires some much more expensive equipment.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> So, I've got, probably 100+ old 8mm film of my Dad's I would like to
> convert.  Most of the companies I've contacted ship them off to do this.
>  I'm a bit uneasy with that.
>
> Question is, can I do this myself?  That is, do they simply run the film
> through a projector then video tape it with a camera?  I don't see any
> other way.
>
> Input?
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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