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- From: arnie@col.hp.com (Arnie Berger)
- Newsgroups: rec.video,misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: transferring film to video
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 17:44:50 GMT
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- 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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- This brings up a general question. How are movies transferred to video?
- It must be a pretty straight-forward process because they've been showing
- films on TV for years, but TV has an effective frame rate of 30 per second
- and I don't think that motion pictures are synched to that.
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- Arnie
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