mengm@homxa.UUCP (P.MENG) (04/17/84)
Last year I went thru the frustration of trying to transfer my
super8 movies onto video-tape. I was trying to do some home-brew
creative type stuff so I did not consider a commercial service (FOTOMAT, etc).
Since I own a video camera I tried a telecine adapter. I found these
to be relatively useless and expensive (@$100). One of these I tried
would not work with my RCA CC011 camera and the other adapter did not
give me a decent picture.
I found I could get the same results by projecting the super8
onto a white sheet of paper and pointing the video-camera at the paper.
I tried to get the video-camera as close to the paper as possible using
the macro facility of the camera. I also had a color monitor (tv) hooked
up so I could experiment with the camera settings, lighting, etc.
The conclusions I reached using the above method are as follows:
* I had no problem with the frame synchronization. There was no resul-
tant flicker or horizontal lines. Super8 is 18 frames sec by the way.
* The technique I used worked satisfactorily using clear, bright super8
pictures. However, if the super8 picture was even slightly tinted
I lost all color in the transfer and the resulting video was
a lot darker than the source.
I would recommend comparing this method with the telecine
adapter but make sure you can bring the adapter back if your not
satisfied.
If anyone out there knows of another method (under $200)
I'd sure like to hear about it.
Peter Mengron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (04/18/84)
Sound is 24fps, Silent 18fps for smaller film formats (16mm and down). Anybody see any 9.5mm movie film recently? Has the sprocket holes down the middle. -Ron