When I was a film student in College in the late 70's I made three Super-8 films of the student co-op I lived at, Lothlorien. I wasn't impressed by the transfer I got from a consumer transfer house, particularly the exposure is off in many scenes. It would be nice to have a good transfer at some point :)
-- Enric Cirne http://www.cirne.com --- In [email protected], Bohus Blahut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jake Ludington wrote: > > >>Just curoius what you're prefered method of digitizing Super-8 film > >>is? I have some films in Super-8 that I shot in the late 1970's. > >> > >> > > > >This is likely the best method for consumer level transfer: > >http://www.moviestuff.tv/wp_xp.html > > > >Not cheap, but effective. > > > > > This is the device I have. I would actually say that it goes far > beyond "consumer level transfer" (perhaps I'm misunderstanding how you > meant the term?)- the visual quality is a hair's breadth under a Rank > transfer system which costs $350/hr to transfer. The quality of the > picture is stunning - you can't see as much in a quarter screen video > blog, but the DVD's that I've made for people just sparkle. I use a > Canon XL-1 3 -chip camera as part of the capture process, and you can tell. > > The thing with the Workprinter is that it's really tricky to set up, > and needs a lot of specialized attention. I have a degree in film, so > am used to the persnickety nature of motion picture film. Also the cost > doesn't end with the Workprinter device itself, you have to custom-build > a computer for it, get loads of storage space, then of course all the > stuff that you need to repair and restore film. > > I already did all of that so that you don't have to! :) > > I'm using the Workprinter now for the project that the home movie > video blog is part of. I've used it for transferring stuff for > broadcast TV, and in about a month we will be opening our doors to > regular folks who would like their films transferred and preserved for > the future. That's the plan... I may mention it in the video blog at > some point. > > >The other alternative is recording the film with a DV cam set up > >side-by-side with the projector. > > > That's how I used to sort of homebrew film transfers. It takes a > while to get the two devices lined up well enough, and because the > projector and the video camera are at different speeds, you'll get a > flickering picture on videotape. Some projectors have a variable speed > knob that you can use to tweak the projector to get it to play nice with > your video camera, but then the speed of stuff on-screen is often > absurdly fast or slow. > > I'm not trying to discourage anyone of course. It's just that a lot > of people I know have done transfers at home and were unhappy at how > long the process took. With a lot of patience you can get a pretty nice > picture. > > > > -- > Bohus Blahut > (BOH-hoosh BLAH-hoot) > > modern filmmaker ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
