Arising out of Question 280675 (from another Questioner) ...

Yes ... I would like to convert my old stuff but (a) To What? (DVD?) and (b) How?

I have an 8mm Movie Projector; a 35mm Slide Projector; an A4 Flat Bed
Scanner; and CD & DVD writers on my newish computer.

I don't want to have to copy the movies frame-by-frame and I am
prepared to splash out on whatever it takes, but preferably not
megabucks. (In other words, I am a hobbyist, not a pro.)

Many thanks in anticipation.

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 01 Dec 2003 21:20 PST

This is going NOWHERE!

I appreciate you a looking to do this yourself, but just to let you
know I had 6 or 7 old Super 8 films and I had them transfered to
video. A good quality camera shop should have the contacts to arrange
this. Also, I recall there are sometimes adverts in the Sunday
Telegraph for this service. It cost me £105 a couple of years ago.
answerfinder-ga

Hi, Answer Finder

Many thanks for your comment.

Yes, I know that there are folks out there who offer the service but I
really would like to know how it's done.

And do I really want to go to 'video' (which I assume means VHS) if
there is an option to go to DVD?

Bryan

As to the "how it's done" ... 

When I was in graphic design, I partnered with a photographer. He
converted all my Super8 videos to VHS just by putting the video camera
"lens-to-lens" with the Super8 Movie projector and running both. The
vidoes came out great!

The interesting added effect was that the VHS camera recorded the
"tick tick tick" sound of the Movie projector, thus preserving that
"old fashioned" movie sound -- which incidentally, quickly goes from
quaint to annoying and will cause you to click that mute button on
your TV about 4 minutes into watching it.

So..if you have a VHS recorder, you could do that part at home and at
least preserve the vidoes before that Super8 tape becomes too brittle
to play. Many of mine snapped in the process of recording them --
luckily, I still had that cute little splicing kit you get with the
projector..and the tape was still good.

Not being a techy, I have no idea how then to get it to DVD, but yes,
I'd say digital should be your final solution. That VHS player is
going to be the way of the dinosaur in the not too distant future.

-K~

Hi, K

Many thanks for your insights.

However, I don't have a video camera but that's no problem ...

UNLESS there is a better way.

Bryan

Hi, Again, Knowledge Seeker

Doing it thataway, won't the images be transposed from left to right?

Another Knowledge Seeker

hmm.... they are not. But you're right .. they should be. 

Now how could that be?  

-K~  <---puzzled

Well in K's case, couldn't the slides be originally reversed so that
the transposition would reverse them back to "normal"?

Stand aside ...

This Question is being EXPIRED!