8mm help^^^^^

[somedude]

I want to work with film and 8mm is the cheapest so how much dose it cost to start all equipment included(film,cameras,developing.ect). i want to edit on my computer so is there a company who can convert 8mm to digital format(avi...ect). any advice would be helpfull.thanks

[MikeBrantley]

Follow the link below to my main page, and then click on the link near the bottom of that page called Video Connection. That offers some advice about transfer services.

Also, maybe some others with experience will join in this thread. This is something I intend to do, but I have yet to have any footage professionally transferred to digital video. Of only done the do-it-yourself approach of videotaping off the projected image, but my results have not been stellar.

[Alexx]

This issue is the holy grail of Super8... transferring your film to video for a high quality look that henceforth will be impervious to projector scratches.

The Rank Cintel Transfer technique is considered the best quality you can get...Perhaps a dozen (I'm not exactly sure how many exist in the world, but it's not many) super-8 gates exist that allow super-8 film to be put on the very same million dollar machines that transfer 16mm and 35mm movies!

The Post Group in Hollywood used to do it, Super-8 Sound in Burbank does it. Yale
labs in Hollywood may do it.

Film and Video Transfers in Northridge, California offers both Rank and Hi-quality "film chain" transfers.

Sony or Elmo (I've forgotten now) made a projector that did a nice job but the machine was somewhat hi-maintenance and not always repairable as Super-8 repair facilites disappeared.

Remember, the beauty of ALL FILM is that you can choose the quality of the transfer by the video format you choose to transfer to and
the method you use to do the transer

Transferring to Vhs is pretty worthless.
But transferring to BetaCam SP, or S-VHS (and played in a high-end multi-thousand dollar S-VHS deck) are the video formats of choice ...mini-dv is ok but the tape is thin and the machines are touchy.

The cost for the above transfer methods vary from a low of $100.00/hr for film chain to $300.00 per hour for the high end rank cintel transers.

Hope this helps.

Alexx