Hi Ben, Thanks for your reply, it is nice to have a recommendation on one of these firms, particularly as there are so many of them. I have paid for one of my Super 8 films to be copied, but it was quite expensive and I thought not a lot better than I could do myself with my very amateurish set up. Excelsior's website, and their demo video, look good.
I do have a lot of film, and some of it probably has rather unreliable splices by now as it dates back to the second world war. I like your idea of using a whiteboard instead of card and will certainly try that. Best wishes, David On 30 July 2014 10:43, Ben Rubinstein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
