Converting Super 8 Film to Digital. Easy, Quality and cheap way to do it.
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This is how i converted my dads Super 8 footage from the 1970s and 1980s. It took me about 1 week to do it and then about 6 months to edit it and put music and sound effects. Some footage is even being sought after by Hollywood directors to put as B-roll in their films and projects. Its a great old format and you should convert it to digital.
I have seen a resurgence by people like Land Del Ray use it in their videos and Steven Spielberg loves it. He even made a film called Super 8
Abraham Zapruder captured the Kennedy assassination on Super 8 film while he was standing on the grassy knoll
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I began doing the same 10 years ago, first a rubber belt broke, I replaced it with a large "O" ring. Then the lamp stop working. I sent to a lab, and they joined all the little rolls and flmed in digital, but they didn't correct the focus from one roll to the other, so now I purchased a new lamp and I 'll do it my way just using a semi translucent screen a mirror and a dark room. Great job and cool friend Mr Jerry !!!!! Cheers from Argentina!!!!
gracias por tu comentario. Yes the lamps are hard to find. Interesting method with translucent screen. I had this old box made wirh a mirror. Seemed to work ok. There are also machines now you can get called wolverine that takes individual pictures. Great to see you are saving old memories 👍😀
Information storage is easy. The difficulty is accessing it years later when the storage media is obsolete. I can't believe you still have those old projectors and cameras in working condition!
I backup data centres and we always have issues years later wirh obsolete drives and media. Film also deteriates eventually.. got diversify. Film, DAT, multiple harddrives at different sites and finally cloud.. lol overkill yea
I am working on our home movies that my Dad shot in the late 40s to mid 60's on 8MM. My brother has the 8MM camera which you had to wind up, there was a large butterfly key that folded out on one side and we still have the light bar that attached to the camera and held three flood lights.
Wow. I didn't know it went back to the 40s.. that sounds like a real collectors item. And to have footage from back then is so special.. 😁
Love your videos. Happy I came across your channel
Thanks for kind comment.
What an interesting video Roberto. You're fortunate to still have those films. It certainly makes a change from going through a pile of old photographs.
My local camera shop offers a cine-to-DVD service of some sort but it isn't cheap. Actually, converting anything 'old' technology to new technology isn't ever cheap, it seems. I give you full marks for patience for spending 6 months doing all of it as well.
Thanks lee. Yeah i did 15 ywars ago. These days its cheaper and easier.. a bit..most the time was editing with music sound effects but bloody youtube kept copywriting music.. lol. I made menus on dvd and gave them to the relations. Keepsake of precious times
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Thanks for kind comment. Yes if only Jerry could talk 😀
Thanks for the video! My Father bought me a GAF super 8 camera in 1976, but I had an older regular 8 before that. The older one had a single-frame function that made it fun for special effects. It also had slow motion which would blow through a film roll in less than a minute.
I just bought a Kodak digitizer that saves on a SD chip in MP4 format plays at 20fps. It only records at 2 fps, so it takes a half hour to convert a roll, but it comes out nice!
Cool. Yeah the digitize machines are best. I read some of them can get the colors wrong. I guess one could take a proper photo of every frame one by one but that would be painful lol. Dad used to slow down the projector for slow mo and we used to laugh so hard. Good times 😆
Thank you for sharing Roberto.
My pleasure
Hehe, Thank you.
I've had my folks awesome super 8s put on DVD but now THAT is unplayable to us. Need to get my hands on a projector as dads has a bulb issue .. I need to copy more, they're60s and 70's GOLD!
Yeah. My old DVDs also rotted and flaked. Lucky I have them on hard drive also. Maybe one off those wolverine super 8 converters might be better as might be hard to find a bulb
lol when you when went from talking family videos to horror films and JFK assassination. funny stuff.
Lol. I just realised. I went off on a tangent.. lol
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It's ok he's just a hologram 😆
Funny, informative, pretty cool. Thanks!
Thanks. A great project to save the memories... I should get those real scanners one day just to see the difference
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I'm about to embark on a similar endeavor to convert my dad's old 16mm. I'm prolly gonna film the wall tho. Lol.
Cool. Yeah just as good filming wall. I made a more recent video that shows more ways you can check out. Have fun its very rewarding once you get it digitised 🙂🐕
@@robdido dad is 79, so I want to do this for him. And it'll be cool to show them to the kids. I did this for VHS already, but I had a VHS to DVD burner which simplified it immensely. I'm sure this will turn out fine too. Thanks again!
@@conrat2000 same here. We are archivist lol 😆.. keeping precious film to live on forever. Your kids and sad will be forever thankful
Thanks for the video. Love your slow laid back style. So much better than the Americans who seem to have to shout ‘What’s up guys’ at the start of every video. Best wishes to you.
Lol. Thanks.. I like the slower vids too.. I think it's all that coffee those guys are drinking haha
Thank you I got a box of old 8mm my dad gave to me so I will save up for one of these devices and transfer it all to digital
Cool. They are a bit expensive. Cheapest is to buy a projector and film the wall. Quality os not that bad. Good memories
Hi Roberto, I have just started converting all my home movies from the 60/70s, I originally converted mine using the same method as you have in the late 80s but now I am going to use one of those new fangled digitisers and do them all over again. PS give my regards to Gerry
Cool. That's a big project. Again. Good to hear I'm not the only one that labored for weeks 😆 nice one. The scanning machines will make so much easier and faster. And better quality. Gerry is sunbathing.. so hot in Sydney.. she waved hello 👋
really enjoyed your video Robert my father was right into the super 8 Cameras he also bought a splicer machine to cut and trim the films and you were spot on about the globes going :) it was a big thing as kids seeing dad set it up on the wall we use to make bunny ears on the wall and also enjoyed when the film ran backwards my brothers and I would crack up laughing good times. Can you recall if your family had a vcr machine was it a top loader ? would be cool if you did a video on the vcr all the best with your digitization of your old films should come up a treat now with the technology we have at our fingertips !
Haha. Yes the puppet shadows.. I remember that. We had a front load vcr. I remember the remote control with a long cord. I found an old vcr on the street and saved it. Actually I might make a video on converting VHS. Good idea thanks 👍
This is very good. I have some 8mm reels though 😊
Yeah. Old film is great to preserve. The same concept with 8mm. As long as you have the projector still and rhe bulb. Hard to find
you're bloody funny man, really natural and interesting
Lol. That was my serious face haha.. thanks for kind comment. After 60 hours of transferring film you gotta laugh 😂
But how do you get the sound from the Film running at frame by frame?
Not sure how sound works. We only had silent super 8. Maybe they run it through twice for image then sound at normal rate
I am debating between buying a proyector that converts súper 8 to digita that cost 250.00 plus or just having a local photo company do it for me, ID it cost the same then I will just but the proyector. I only have a 7" reel and two 3"
Prob cheaper to just get company to do them and they do better quality. Depends what they charge.
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@@robdido bellissimi tempi. I have a Super8 I just inherited from my late father. Looking forward to fixing it up and get it running again. Thanks for sharing your classic home video clips. Grazie from the U.S A. 🇺🇲
I just recorded super 8 off a screen with a digital video camera. The images flashed regularly on my video camera. Do I need to adjust the FPS on my video camera and the resolution?
The super 8 is playing back at 18FPS - so you either have to speed up the projector to match what the digitial camera is recording in. See if you can pick 24fps on the digicam. It will be trial and error to get closest/best results. Or you can play around in post editing software to reduce the flicker and slow down the footage so it doesnt look like its sped up.
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Thanks 😊
I just found historically valuable footage from the Vietnam war my grandfather made and had been offered money for, I'm desperately trying to convert this to digital. It's all 8mm
Wow. That's great. The buyers might pay for professional conversion
@@robdido I could never sell it, however I am wanting to find out a good option to convert it before it deteriorates or gets damaged. I just can't find much on the topic.
My grandad did hours of super8 in the 60s. We got it put onto video and dvd
I put in DVD too but the DVD now is flakey and not reliable so best was hard drive with backups and also on RUclips as private for ultimate backup lol.. and easy to share with family too
@@robdido that's true 👍
Hey man a friend of a friend of mine is a photographer with the darkroom and cameras, studio at the back of his house full on right, he liked taking photos of chicks, so he would go to beaches walk up to them and give his card and some would come over, the cheeky bugger.
Your prices are crazy. In eastern Europe digitisation is 30-40eur for 10minute and then 3eur/min for 8/16mm film tape. They scan each frame separately and digitise it manually at 24frames/second.
It was 20 years ago i inquired. I checked todays prices and seems like $50AUD per small 4 minute reel is the average price today. But lots of different people do it different. Professional transfer is always going to be better than DIY. That wolverine scanner might be a worthwhile investment 😀
very nice video🔥🔥
Thanks. I also did another one that has more details
Hi Roberto thank you so much for the video. It’s made me decide to get a Wolverine pro and scan all the standard 8 reels I have.
I’m just wondering how you got copyright for the music you used? Thank you. Tony in Perth.
Let me know how you go. I was thinking of getting one too. Yeah got a flag for that song at end. RUclips checks the video now before you publish and tells you. This one they said ok to use but video cannot be monetized. Ive done a few with same warning. Most labels let you use it because they get the revenue
@@robdido thank you so much for the info.stay safe.
Gerry was so scared when she saw the super-8 camera ! Really interesting video ;)
Glad you liked it!
You look just like your dad at 2:10!
Lol. Yeah my family tell me that too.. same hair style 😆
When you talk about the resolution, it might surprise you to know that with the scanners today you can get 1080p out of super 8
Yes. I ive seen a 720 wolverine sxanner. I rhink 1080 is now available. Filing it also works. What i was trying to say was rhe image quality will always be super 8 no matter even if film it to 4k. If you know what i mean
@@robdido I mention it because I got my parent's wedding footage from 1973 scanned in. For years we had tapes made. But with HD you can actually see more detail inside the church whereas before the black was crushed. I was able to go in on my PC and fix it a bit more using Premiere pro (though DaVinci Resolve is free and just as good for that sort if thing)
Spot on. Me too. I noticed the improvement too. I bet with a scanner its even better like you have done. Also while editing i started to notice all rhese little things like facial gestures etc that you never noticed before. I guess that was because i spent 6 months editing our entire collection 😀
Bad idea. No sync with camera. It cause light flicking. Better use direct beam transfer
Yes true. If you mean scan then its better to scan direct using wolverine projector. You can play around with speed also to reduce flickering
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Yes. The wolverine machine is good for that
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If you're still out there, I've transferred a lot of Super 8 and double 8 via the Wolverine Pro. the results are usually really crappy until I run the video through software to remove noise, etc. I've been tempted to use my digital camera and copy the movies off a screen to see if it's better. You know, the old way.
Yeah. I heard those wolverine type solutions the camera isn't that good. Prob crappy sensor? You could try a short 3min roll on the wall/white dull plastic or something. I did another video using those little RUclips light stands
@@robdido Thanks for the reply, I'll check your other video.
I get excellent, professional results with a Wolverine machine. It's slow, but that's the only downside. No idea why you're getting poor results.
Terrible advice, you should get your films scanned properly, contact me if want more info
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@@robdido Thank you for your comment. Here's a link to my channel, I'm based in Europe ruclips.net/video/pbRacUp4HS0/видео.html