hi
im a newbie so apologies for general levels of ignornace!
I want to transfer standard 8mm and super 8mm to camcorder and later dvd
i've been told that that the best FPS rate for UK is 16.6
i have a eumig 810d machine which I believe is variable between 18 and 24.
I'd really appreciate some advice on the best way forward for me!
I'm not sure if this will do the job for me since i can't see a way to get it below 18? i'm not even sure how it works.
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Moderator: Andreas Wideroe
The best way is to try it out. Set up the camcorder beside the projector. Project onto a screen about A4 in size.
If your camcorder has a shutter speed of 1/50 and you project silent films at 18 fps then there should be little to no flicker. It is near enough to 16.67, or 50/3 which means with the 3 blade shutter on the projector you should be OK.
Do not expect great things, there are better ways at a price, but the results should be acceptable. Use a size of 384 x 288 to capture at. The result is about the same as average VHS. It is unlikely using this set up you would get a better picture using the DVD settings. Also capturing at 384 x 288 is not going to upset the processor.
Record in .avi format but make sure you have plenty of hard disk space. At the moment, in the UK, Uleads pro video editor version 6.5 is available on the front of a couple of magazines. A proper older version being given away as a freebie, no restrictions except the need to register. It is not the easiest to use, but not so hard. However it seems to process pretty quick and delivers good edited movies in the popular formats. Remember, it is an old version, which means if your computer is relatively new it will work pretty fast.
If you save in mpeg1 onto a CD it is possible to play the results on most DVD players.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/ as a really helpful site on producing DVDs and VCDs.
If your camcorder has a shutter speed of 1/50 and you project silent films at 18 fps then there should be little to no flicker. It is near enough to 16.67, or 50/3 which means with the 3 blade shutter on the projector you should be OK.
Do not expect great things, there are better ways at a price, but the results should be acceptable. Use a size of 384 x 288 to capture at. The result is about the same as average VHS. It is unlikely using this set up you would get a better picture using the DVD settings. Also capturing at 384 x 288 is not going to upset the processor.
Record in .avi format but make sure you have plenty of hard disk space. At the moment, in the UK, Uleads pro video editor version 6.5 is available on the front of a couple of magazines. A proper older version being given away as a freebie, no restrictions except the need to register. It is not the easiest to use, but not so hard. However it seems to process pretty quick and delivers good edited movies in the popular formats. Remember, it is an old version, which means if your computer is relatively new it will work pretty fast.
If you save in mpeg1 onto a CD it is possible to play the results on most DVD players.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/ as a really helpful site on producing DVDs and VCDs.
New web site and this is cine page http://www.picsntech.co.uk/cine.html