Mark Potter on sat 16 feb 02
soon DVD?
This is very easy to do. Look in your local yellow pages for a video
production services company. The kind of place that will rent video
projectors, screens, etc. They often do superior transfers because of a good
inhouse technical ability. There are also a plethora of small businesses
about, (in cities mostly) that have 'telecine' projectors for transferring
super and regular 8 to the video format of your choice. Our local
photography store has one and offers the service, to VHS. But I have to go
down in the basement with the tech, who didn't know what Super 8 was a day
before he was hired, and I have to walk him through all the setup, cleaning
the projector, balancing the exposure, etc. These places are usually amateur
oriented, and vary enormously in the quality they deliver. They were formed
with the death of amateur 8 & 16 mm to accomodate all the home movies people
wanted to keep in a medium that was easier to project.
Go with a professional video house if you can. The cost won't be much higher
and you'll get a good job.
Super 8 almost always becomes more contrasty and hence loses color
saturation (looks more like black and white after you transfer), so there
really is no point (I've found) in paying extra for a 'timed transfer'
(meaning they give a different exposure to different reels or shots). Timed
transfers really involve video editing usually, at minimum a lot of labor
costs, so you really don't want to go that route. A 'one-light transfer'
(one exposure beginning to end) almost always does the job, IF Y0UR FOOTAGE
IS GOOD TO BEGIN WITH - (ie. sharp and evenly exposed, AND NOT OVER
EXPOSED). Forget making transfers of overexposed footage from Super 8.
Transfer rates at most of these places are very NEGOTIABLE!!!
DVD would be a good medium to go to, or even the new Apple digital video
medium. You do however need the telecine projector to do the transfer, so
call about to a number of houses, to see who has what. The more modern
places will have the computer mediums. They have it in order to accomodate
users like yourself who will might equipment to show the result.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ceramic Arts Discussion List [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On
Behalf Of Working Potter
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:09 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Village Potters of Onda...transfering 8mm to cd or vhs or
soon DVD?
Does anyone know how to get 8MM and super 8MM film transferred to digital
or even VHS?
Misty
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