That's effectively what is done. The mechanisms for doing this will depend on the time and expense, but that's pretty much the only way to get analog to digital.<div><br></div><div>I believe high end restoration folks do something fancier where they take individual frames, "photograph" them then stitch those frames together to make a movie and put it on DVD, but that's a lot more effort intensive and requires some much more expensive equipment.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Geoffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
So, I've got, probably 100+ old 8mm film of my Dad's I would like to<br>
convert. Most of the companies I've contacted ship them off to do this.<br>
I'm a bit uneasy with that.<br>
<br>
Question is, can I do this myself? That is, do they simply run the film<br>
through a projector then video tape it with a camera? I don't see any<br>
other way.<br>
<br>
Input?<br>
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Until later, Geoffrey<br>
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