Recommendations for 8mm/16mm film transfer

Dezine wrote on 2/20/2003, 3:42 PM
I was wondering what some of you might recommend for 8mm or 16mm film transfers to digtal to be burned on DVD.
Would you recommend purchasing a telecine projector and shoot on Dv Camera?

Has anyone had experience with S8/R8 Telecine Machines like the CineMatte or WorkPrinter jr. series? Also in regards to the Cinematte/WorkPrinter jr. machines, can Vegas perform stop motion captures to avoid me puchasing something like "DodCap" which is mentioned on this site?
http://www.moviestuff.tv/8mm_telecine.html
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Or are results shot with a DV Camera using a variable rate projector on a screen/or in a box like the AMBICO V-0652 Video Transfer System just as good?

Thanks for the feedback.
Dezine

Comments

Bear wrote on 2/20/2003, 5:40 PM
I do this quite a bit.
I use poster board that is white I set it up using the back of the board not the shinny side. I have a Yelo projector with a wide speed range. I set up a sony hi 8 camera on a tripod and put it directly over the projector. I then film the movie with the hi 8. Theere must be someone that can explain this but you get much better results if you us a hi 8 to capture I have digital 8 as well and if does a lousy job of capturing I get terrible flickering no matter how I adjust the speed on the projector. Afer capturing I pop the tapes in my digital 8 capera and imput to the computer via firewire. this method works well for me have many happy customers. I realy didn't explain that you get the best picture if you keep it as small as possible. I set the projector on the dining room table and the poster board on the other side maybe 2 1/2 feet. I was told of this method by a fellow that does this for a living along with other video work. The big thing he warned me is to not project onto a screen as the picture is much worse.
hth
JJKizak wrote on 2/20/2003, 6:58 PM
There are some older threads that go into great depth on this forum and also
links to people who will do the job for you. I had 11,000 feet of color 16mm
Cinemasope film converted to Betacam SP at a cost of $3800.00 The films were
color corrected on the fly and were mint perfect. There machine cost 1.5 million
bucks. (they had seven machines).

JJK
tvdias wrote on 2/21/2003, 2:02 PM
I use a workprinter type setup, and a Canon XL1S camera. There is no way that an old worn-out projector projecting at 16 or 18 or 24 fps can match the absolute lack of flicker and image steadiness that a workprinter setup can deliver.

If you have Adobe Premier, it will do single frame captures, but DODCap is what I use, it's well worth the few dollars it costs.

Vern