shawn@brl-sem.ARPA (Shawn Hannan ) (08/19/85)
I'm not sure if this made it out across the net or not, so I'm trying again.
A lot of discussions in this section recently have centered on 8mm
'camcorders.' These are obviously (I think) not related to the old
Super 8 cameras. My problem is that we own one of those old cameras
but the projector broke. We also own a VHS VCR. We would like to
convert all of our old Super 8 films to VHS format. Can this be done?
thank you
Shawn Hannanbrown@nicmad.UUCP (08/21/85)
In article <373@brl-sem.ARPA> shawn@brl-sem.ARPA (Shawn Hannan ) writes: >A lot of discussions in this section recently have centered on 8mm >'camcorders.' These are obviously (I think) not related to the old >Super 8 cameras. My problem is that we own one of those old cameras >but the projector broke. We also own a VHS VCR. We would like to >convert all of our old Super 8 films to VHS format. Can this be done? Yes. Check with your local 'Video Station" (if you have one), or other video dealer. Sometimes even the local photo dealer can get the films transferred. One question you will have to ask is how they do it. What I mean here is do they just project the image into a camera or do they use a special projector that is synced to the video's vertical sync? If they don't sync the projector to the video, you will get the awful flicker that occurs when they are out of sync. Be sure to check on that. -- Mr. Video {seismo!uwvax!|!decvax|!ihnp4}!nicmad!brown