The two complicating factors in transfering film to any electronic media (analog or digital video) is that film is shot/projected at 24 frames per second, and US video is 29.95 (or so) frames per second. The other is that film has a much higher dynamic range than electronic media, meaning that dark areas in film will be black in video, and lighter areas will be burned out white in video.
I'd use the best service I could find/afford to do the conversion for you. On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Alex Chamberlain <apchamberl...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:45 AM, LarryT <l02tur...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Transferring a motion picture to video is very different than transferring > still film to digital image files; it's a highly technical process and as > with most technical processes you can do it cheap, or you can do it > right---pick one or the other. > > For the best possible results, there is only one company to use---Alpha > Cine > Labs in Seattle. <http://www.alphacine.com/services/telecine.php> Any of > the other places you can find by Googling "super-8 to video conversion" > will > do the job, but with, in my experience, only middling quality---no better > than you can do yourself at home by the following method: > -- OK Don Panic! (the national past time). _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
