super 8 to DV

[motion]

Hello,
I have not done a lot of filming other than 5 years ago in school. Back then, there was a projector that had an RCA out which I could go right in to the video deck to "capture." I've been looking on ebay to find a projector that has that RCA out and I've found many of the sellers are not that articulate. I know that many shoot off the wall/screen to go from s8 to video, but I'd rather do it the way I described. Does anyone have a recommendation on a decent projector that can do this?
Also, I'd like to find a reasonable place that sells and processes super 8 film.
Thanks in advance

[Greg Crawford]

Contact Roger Evens in Houston, TX

at: www.moviestuff.tv

When it comes to buying Super 8 to telecine transfers stuff, he's the man!

[motion]

Thanks bossjock-dp,

I'll give him a call.

[Alex]

If you are planning on editing your Super-8 once it is on video, DON'T transfer your super-8 film directly to DVD. That would be about the most incorrect thing you could do.

[motion]

Alex,
I was going to get in put on Digital 8 tape as I have that camera.

Is the DVD a bad idea because of the compression?
Thanks

[Alex]

Yes.

DVD is an interesting format. The copyguard on DVD can be a useful deterrent in case you have a project you want to distribute and are worried about piracy.

However, the compression is pretty darn high. But for now, if you take a DVD that already has massive compression, then recompress onto a DV non-linear system, you may be setting yourself up for disappointment.

Perhaps when Non Linear Editing is actually 100% uncompressed, it may not matter as much. When Non Linear Editing becomes completely uncompressed, then your DVD is not being recompressed anymore, so you might be able to work from it as an edit source.

Good luck with the Digital 8. It's an interesting format. It's more unknown than DVD, but it may be just as good.

[cameraguy]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor=""><font size=2 face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Alex:

Good luck with the Digital 8. It's an interesting format. It's more unknown than DVD, but it may be just as good.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

There is no mystery to Digital 8. It is standard DV code recorded onto Hi8 tape stock. Digital 8 gets a bad rep on many newsgroups cause none of the top 3 ccd cams are made with digital 8 recorders on board. If Canon, Sony and Panasonic cancelled all there prosumer minidv cams and replaced them with digital 8 equivalents then D8 would be all the noise.

[Alex]

I heard talk of Digital 8 back in 95 or 96. For some reason, Sony never released it in the U.S. until 2000.

Perhaps all the tape path alignment problems associated with HI-8 Video deterred them.