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- From: lim@addvax.llnl.gov (Doug Lim)
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- Subject: Re: transferring film to video
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 18:29:00 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.
-
- I have seen advertised special devices for transfering movies to video...I
- have not used any of these.
-
- My brother and I used the method (1) that you proposed. It worked very very
- well. People who have had their movies transfered "professionally" who have
- seen our video copies tell us that ours turned out better. It is also a
- fairly simple operation. Some hints for using this technique...
-
- 1) Get the room as dark as possible to do the filming. Do it at night
- with all the drapes pulled. A flashlight for all of the people working
- on the project definitely comes in handy!
-
- 2) Focus the camcorder beforehand by either running some sample video and
- using the autofocus or manual focus. My parents movie projector actually
- produced a pattern of dots when there wasn't any film in the projector
- which was perfect for focusing. After the camera is focused switch the
- camera to manual. The focus will be reasonably good for the majority
- of the pictures and is definitely less annoying that watching your
- camcorder's autofocus constantly trying to refocus between scenes.
-
- 3) This is also a great time to have you family watch all those home movies
- together, since you have all the gear out and are watching all the reels.
- You don't have to worry about people talking during the filming because
- you have the following options with the sound:
- a) When you make a copy dub on your own sound track. This is what my
- brother and I did - Came out very nice.
- b) Simply make copies without the audio out of the camcorder connected
- - for no sound at all.
- c) Use the audio to use the comments about "oh, how cute!" from
- family members watching the video to add interesting commentary
- for the video.
-
- 4) My brother and I did our transfering in my parents family room where
- their color television is kept. We were thus able to do the framing of
- the camcorder and some testing before we recorded with the television as
- a monitor. This was useful in that we were able to see the big picture
- and had an idea about how the final product would turn out in color.
-
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