Anyone have any experience with a unit such as this? Specifically, how this Pro Elmo unit would compare with a work printer? This setup claims to even transfer sound.
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Film-to-video transfer setup?
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mattias
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well, seems like it's simply a projector. i have lots of experience with projectors ;-), and they work ok as long as you don't mind a little flicker and lots of field and frame blending. this one has variable speed and interchangable shutters, so it's a little more advanced than most, but basically its just a pretty nice tool for the good old "variable speed projector method". use three blades and transfer 18 fps at 16.67 (pal) or 20 (ntsc) or five blades at 24 fps (ntsc) or two blades at 25 fps (pal) for 24 fps. turn the variable speed knob until the flicker disappears and just press rec. the advantages over the workprinter are that you can do sound at the same time, that it runs in real time and that the result looks more like a home movie, if that's the look you're after...
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Compared to the current bid, one of Moviestuff's Video Cinemates would be a better buy. With the Video Cinemates, you can transfer both Super 8 and Regular 8mm film and it's a hundred bucks cheaper. Not to mention that you can view the entire frame on the VCs. The only advantage this projector has on the VC series is that it can play sound films. Still, I don't think that's worth the extra $100 or so.
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