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- Subject: Re: transferring film to video
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 05:13:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.222509.20684@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, smjeff@lerc05.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Miller) writes...
- >I am interested in transferring several old home movies from film reels
- >onto videotape. Are there any "preferred" methods of doing this? The 2
- >ways I can think of to do this are :
- >1) Project the movie onto a screen and tape it with a video camera.
- >2) Transfer the movie frame by frame with a video camera capable of taking
- >single frames. Since the film was shot at 24 fps and the video uses 60 fps
- >I would need to take 2 video frames of the first film frame and then 3 video
- >frames of the next film frame, and then 2,3,2,3,etc.
- >
- >Are there any better ways of doing this? Thanks.
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- Well use the screen method unless it turns out to be very bad picture quality.
- Make sure you don't buy an Ambico converter because they're very bad! I have
- one and it doesn't work right. converters are about 60 bucks these days.
-
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