My Dad has an old style projector (from the 70s-80s), and I want to copy the reels onto DVD, help.?
02.November, 2009
I don’t seem to be able to find a device that can copy these reels.
The machines that do this sort of digitizing are quite expensive - over $1000 - see http://www.retrothing.com/2005/10/digitizing_movi.html
There are other options though. The problem of course is that you do not have any sort of analogue output off of the projector - other than the projected image.
Two ways you can do this depending on the quality you want:
1. Send your films to a company that specialises in digitizing film such as http://www.digitalpickle.com/film.shtml - the prices are fairly reasonable if the movies are important to you.
2. Option 1 will give you the best quality to be sure, but another option would be to set up your projector (assuming you have one) and project onto a good screen. Set up a tripod with a digital video camera and record the projected movie. With the proper set-up you can actually do a pretty good job of capturing the movie this way.
Hope that helps.
03.November, 2009 um 2:22 am
The machines that do this sort of digitizing are quite expensive - over $1000 - see http://www.retrothing.com/2005/10/digitizing_movi.html
There are other options though. The problem of course is that you do not have any sort of analogue output off of the projector - other than the projected image.
Two ways you can do this depending on the quality you want:
1. Send your films to a company that specialises in digitizing film such as http://www.digitalpickle.com/film.shtml - the prices are fairly reasonable if the movies are important to you.
2. Option 1 will give you the best quality to be sure, but another option would be to set up your projector (assuming you have one) and project onto a good screen. Set up a tripod with a digital video camera and record the projected movie. With the proper set-up you can actually do a pretty good job of capturing the movie this way.
Hope that helps.
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