ooh crap! Sorry for not seeing this earlier. When I took film and video in college, my final project was on 8mm, and I wanted to use non-linear editors to add sound, splice, etc. the result (i.e. I faced the same problem).<div>
<br></div><div>My solution was exactly what you proposed - dark room, project onto a white wall, record with a nice DV cam on a tripod. Reason being, there are some weird complications to trying to get analog -> digital when it comes to film:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Video is not quite 30fps, it is 29.97fps because it "drops" a frame every so often to store information related to something called a timecode. A timecode is a counter that allows software, DVD players, etc., to reference different points in a digital file by an index. So, somehow, you need to get your non-timecoded analog stuff into a timecoded digital format before you can play it on anything. There are a couple of ways to do this:</div>
<div><br></div><div>a) use fancy pants (expensive) editing software like Premiere or Final Cut. You can import a "filmstrip" of individually scanned images and let it stitch them together into a continuous movie file with a timecode attached. This makes the scanning part easy, yet laborious, since you can just snap a picture of every single frame.</div>
<div>b) build a "drop frame" algorithm into your scanner. If I remember the math, 29.97fps means you drop 1 frame from every 100 frames of footage. So, you'd want to have your scanner randomly skip a frame at that frequency. Timecoding would be easy since you'd just number each frame in the sequence you captured it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyways, not sure if that helped or not, or if it was way too late, but just to throw an extra $0.02 in there :)</div><div><br>Sean<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:46 PM, jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@well.com">jim@well.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Thanks for the ScanCafe tip; I'll pass it on.<br>
I'm still hoping someone will provide some kind<br>
of guidance re making the gizmo from scratch.<br>
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On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 15:20 -0500, Casey Callendrello wrote:<br>
> I fully support creating such a hack. However, there is a company based<br>
> in India called ScanCafe that will do scanning for very reasonable<br>
> prices - $.20 per foot.<br>
><br>
> --Casey<br>
><br>
> On 12/20/11 1:45 PM, jim wrote:<br>
> > a friend of mine has a friend who's got some<br>
> > super-8 format film that he'd like to capture into<br>
> > some kind of digital format.<br>
> > the content is family stuff, personal interest,<br>
> > no commercial value. he's not in a rush and doesn't<br>
> > want to pay the high fees for a commercial shop to<br>
> > do a conversion. the 20-year old film is in great<br>
> > shape, given the limitations of super-8 format.<br>
> ><br>
> > i suppose one way of conversion might be to<br>
> > play the super-8 onto a screen and record the output<br>
> > with a digital video camera.<br>
> > my pal thinks this is good fodder for a hack: rig<br>
> > up some kind of ccd device to a mechanical super-8<br>
> > film feeder and use sprocket edge detection to<br>
> > determine when to capture the current frame to the<br>
> > ccd device.<br>
> > anybody got ideas or opinions?<br>
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