[Jolly Green]

Lots of great ideas on this thread. I should have consulted the FR Brain Trust a few months ago when I needed to convert a bunch of 8mm old movies to digital format. After messing with this for quite awhile and spending lots of money on new toys (Sony DVR, Adobe Premiere and Firewire card), I didn't achieve the desired quality. I eventually farmed it out to a commercial house with a Telecine unit to have them converted to DVD.

If any of you have any tricks for this particular problem, I would love to hear them as I still have more to do.

[freedomlover]

Lots of great ideas on this thread. I should have consulted FR Brain Trust a few months ago when I needed to convert a bunch of 8mm old movies to digital format.

I did some rough and ready conversion of my own about a year ago when I sat down with my mother and went through 30 or so old 8mm home (silent) movies. I filmed the wall with a Digital8 camcorder while she talked about the movies so I picked up her voice as the movies played. She passed about 6 mo ago and my recordings, while not professional, are still priceless. I don't know how professionals do it but it can't be that much better absent maybe come color correction.

[John Jorsett]

I have some old family 8mm movies that I'd like to transfer to DVD. Can you tell me who did yours, and what they charged?