I had bought one of the transfer boxes that you aim your projector in one side, and aim a a video camera in the other. That didnt work as well as pointing the projector at a piece of white paper on the wall, and putting a digital camera on a tripod behind it aimed at the paper. I transfered 6 hours of film like this and the paper method looked much better than the transfer box. Not to mention cheaper!
You can find a good report on this on macintouch at the following url: http://www.macintouch.com/digitizingvideo.html Brian O'Neal On Dec 20, 2003, at 8:58 AM, Janice Weber wrote: > Please tell me your methods for transferring 8mm to digital. Do you > just project it on a wall and re-film it? Or is there a device > special for this? > > I bought a converter-something on e-bay, but it's kind of quirky, with > mirrors etc. > > Jan Weber > > On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 02:00 PM, Brian O'Neal wrote: > >> I use a Canon ZR-10, I beleive that the Z series is up to the ZR-70 >> now. I like my 2 year old ZR-10. I don't like its low light >> capabilities, but I think that was improved upon the later models. >> Other than that one down fall Its is a great camcorder. >> All of the Z series work with imovie, and have firewire. Some I >> believe can accept memory cards for still photos. >> And if I remember correctly they should fall in your price range. >> >> I did use mine to transfer 6+ hrs of 8mm video to my computer and >> title it with imovie and export it to vhs. I didnt have enough >> storage to keep it all digital. It worked well. >> >> Brian O'Neal >> >> >> >> On Dec 19, 2003, at 9:57 AM, Michael Robertson wrote: >> >>> Any suggestions for brand/model of digital camcorder for >>> home/amature use to edit older analog 8mm tapes. Probably should >>> have firewire connection. Price range in the 500 to 800s. >>> Thanks for any help. >>> Mike Robertson >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2542 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20031221/1a4c14dc/attachment.bin
