[ale] converting old 8mm film to dvd

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com>wrote:

> If you'd ever been stuck in India and seen a very bad quality VHS tape
> of Starship Troopers that was obviously made by someone filming the
> screen with a camcorder you'd know trying to do it yourself without
> proper equipment isn't a good idea.
>
> It didn't help that Starship Troopers itself was an abomination as
> compared to the original Robert A. Heinlein novel it was based on.  I've
> also never been a fan of films that thought being gross somehow added to
> the suspense.
>

Gross part being : "I can die now that I've had you"

I was torn between vomiting and running for the door.


>
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> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:32 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] converting old 8mm film to dvd
>
> We sent ours off, maybe ten or fifteen years ago, and had VHS tapes
> made.  They cleaned the film and sliced the short reels into longer
> ones.  During the process, some of the picture came off. That is, part
> of the silver emulsion did not survive.  I think the whole process
> turned out better than if I had done it myself.  I remember that every
> time we played those old films they got worse.
>
> They also added some soft background music and, of course, their logo,
> maybe at the beginning or end.  I still have the spliced reels that I
> would like to put on DVD, so keep us posted on what you find out.
>
> ...John
>
>
> >On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >    So, I've got, probably 100+ old 8mm film of my Dad's I would like
> to
> >    convert.  Most of the companies I've contacted ship them off to do
> this.
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