fyi realy proffesional places will scan your negatives frame by frame. Maybee you should do that too? The loose in quality otherwise is realy going to upset you.
Havnt seen any killer editing software for linux yet. Ben de Luca Animal logic Film ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Thurmond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake Expert List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 5:44 AM Subject: [expert] 8mm to DVD? > I have tons of old 8mm film that I want to burn onto a DVD. I have been > looking on the net for video houses to do this for me but the cost is > enormous. By doing it myself I can but a video card and a DVD burner and > still have saved myself a ton of money (and have a DVD burner out of the > deal when I am done!!) > > I have been reading about this on the web and it looks like the way the > video houses accomplish this is to play the 8mm movies with a working 8mm > projector ( I actually have one of these!!) onto a screen while recording > the video with a video recorder. Then run the video from the recorder into > a computer with some video editing software, edit the video however you want > and then burn it to a DVD. > > First of all, I want to do this totally with Linux and open source. I know > I will have to purchase a DVD writer and a good video card. I need some > killer video editing software and some pointers if anyone has done this > before. > > Any ideas? > > -Scott > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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