converting cine films – dvd

Hi Renfrew,i have tried converter boxes ,they seem ok but not better than a screen and the video camera does have trouble focussing on objects that close.
DGH,If you mean Histon as near Oakington Cambridge,well thats a stone throw from my village so i may just pop in and have a chat. http://www.worldvideoproductions.co.uk/
Thanks for the advice everyone.

Most places use a tele-cine convertor which you could buy for yourself at a reasonable price in the likes of Jessops, Argos and high street photo labs at one time.

I’ve never used one personally, but I understand the results are good and probably worth getting if you’ve a lot of footage to convert?

Basically it works by you aiming the projector up it’s lens, it creates a little match box sixed image which is then beamed out the back end into your camcorder which you mate up, lens to tele-cine convertor style through an aperture. I think your camcorder requires a macro focus facilty though ?

As has been said, Jessops and also lot’s of wedding video type companies do it. Look in the Yellow Pages under video services or wedding services.

At work we copy video camera films to video or DVD but not cine film, for this we always recommend Chris Jones who runs World Video at Histon. You can contact him on (01223) 233031. You can trust him and he’s probably the cheapest in the area, give him a ring he wont bite!

I don’t know prices at your country, but several years ago I had a film commercially translated to video. results were good and I don’t think it was too expensive. Now you should certainly go digital and not for a casette. I suggest that you ask around in photo shops. Try also forums dedicated to photography.

I had some family super-8 put onto DVD a while back, it wasn’t badly priced at all.

I’ll dig out the name of the firm and post it tonight.

I think Jessops do a cine to video/dvd service.

Any Southend footage

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I don’t know prices at your country, but several years ago I had a film commercially translated to video. results were good and I don’t think it was too expensive. Now you should certainly go digital and not for a casette. I suggest that you ask around in photo shops. Try also forums dedicated to photography.

I’ve recently just copied some super-8 and standard-8 onto digital formats and found that surprisingly good results can be had, all you need is a good projector with clean optics, a nice crease-free white sheet (i had a screen which is better admittedly but a white sheet would do) and a good video camera. I used my XM2 which is pretty handy for low light (my projectors image is not as bright as I’d hoped for) and I didnt suffer from the noise grain that some camcorders need to boost the image.

Having recorded the footage I cleaned it up a little on Adobe Premiere (fine tuning of colour balance etc) and then saved it onto a dvd.

🙂 I have in my loft quite a few old cine films taken in the 80’s including some airshows and some of the “Memphis Belle ” filming taken from outside Duxford.
I have tried converting them onto VHS by putting the video camera alongside the projector.The results are OK at best but leave alot of loss picture quality.
There are obviously commercial businesses that will do it but who do you trust and without bankrupting yourself.
Has anyone else managed to transfer cine- vhs [hopefully in the near future dvd as i am getting a dvd recorder.]
I was surprised how well the cine films have stood up to time,they are still watchable and the silent film [with the clatter of the projector] makes them seem old.
Any advice would be appreciated.
If i can get them put onto dvd i would consider letting the foootage be used if anyone else on the forum had cine film converted to make up a dvd for other members .
We’ve shared photos and slides on here,how many others have old cine films that could be put together.

Hi.
I have a bag full of 8mm film from airshows from the 70, am looking for a
projector on ebay to copy them to video.
Phil.