Hi David,
I know that this is the exact opposite of the question you asked, but I'll say
it anyway! A couple of years ago I was doing the same thing for an
(admittedly small) set of super-8 films; projecting to a very clean whiteboard
(I started with card but switched to this because I got a brighter image),
pointing a video camera at the result. It was fiddly, it took much longer
than I anticipated, the results were OK, but not fantastic.
Then I sent them off to a company in Crawley called Excelsior
(http://www.videostudio.co.uk), who put the lot on a DVD. The cost wasn't
outrageous compared with my time, the service was excellent: but the main
point was that the quality was enormously higher. The difference was
essentially in the brightness and clarity of the image.
I appreciate that if you have a really large collection, the cost may add up
(but so will your effort!). But I would recommend at least sending them one
film to do (perhaps even one you've already processed yourself) and review the
quality.
kind regards,
Ben
On 28/07/2014 08:18, David Ransom wrote:
I am about to begin copying a collection of old cine films (some dating back
to the 1940s) using a method that I have been quite successful with in the
past. This involves projecting the film onto a white card and producing an
image about 12 cm wide. A video camera is then pointed at an angle at the
projected image. So that it can be copied without obvious distortion (due to
the angle), the projected image is cropped slightly.
I wondered if there is any software that can correct the distortion if I do
not crop the projected image? This would need to be rather like the
perspective filter in Photoshop, but with a movie file.
I'm doing it myself because all the services advertised seem to be either too
expensive or not much different to my own system.
Does anyone on this list have any experience of a DIY method?
Thanks
David
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