Have you considered a software solution that may in the long run be
cheaper??
Both Adobe Premiere and Apple Final Cut Pro have telecine convertors
that will change 24 fps to 30 fps.
Both are over $100.
Jerry
On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 07:14 PM, Brian O'Neal wrote:
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> I just spent the last year doing this. And I think that it turned out
> pretty
> darned good.
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> I tried a few methods.
> Projecting onto a wall. Worked pretty good
> Bought a Projector to Video camera box. Didn?t work as well as the
> "wall"
> And projecting onto a white piece 8.5 by 11 paper.
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> I used my digital video camera to re-film the footage. To get rid of
> the
> flicker, I set the shutter speed down to 1/60 (I think). This worked
> for me.
> From there I could have saved it to hard drive, but it went to VHS
> instead.
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> I used imovie to make titles for each individual film.
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> I am satisfied with the results. But it was quite time consuming.
> Like I
> said it took a year, but I didn?t work on it every day either. Not even
> every month.
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> Hope this helps
>
> Brian O'Neal
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> On 12/19/02 6:27 PM, "Lee Larson" <llarson at Louisville.edu> wrote:
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>> On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 05:45 PM, suzart wrote:
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>>> I'd like to convert super8 movies to disk. Is this possible?
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>> Sure it's possible, but you will probably have to pay to get the
>> results you want. To avoid getting annoying flickers and bars across
>> the screen you need special equipment. The reason for this is that
>> American TV is about 30 frames per second and Super8 film is (I think)
>> 24 frames per second. This means that the frame rate cannot be
>> synchronized, and special methods are used to get around the problem.
>>
>> There are plenty of places that'll do the conversion. Just Google on
>> super8 digital convert to find dozens of them. There are a few places
>> in Louisville that do it too.
>>
>> --
>> Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville
>> Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132
>>
>>
>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28
>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>>
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> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28
> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
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The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28
For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
