8mm Film to DVD, Super 8 Film to DVD and 16mm Movie Film to DVD: Buyer's Guide
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| Bruce
Mayfield MBA, MSPsy, BSCS doing business as (d.b.a.) Film-to-DVD.com & Film-to-Video.com Film-to-Blu-ray.com |
Film-to-Video Buyers Guide
helps you choose an
8mm movie film transfer to DVD and Blu-ray,
Super 8 Movie film transfer to
DVD and Blu-ray, or
16mm movie film transfer to DVD and Blu-ray
service.
The purpose of this tutorial is to ALARM YOU and then ARM YOU -- with Dirty Little Trade Secrets™ and "cutting edge" concepts of film transfer. People thank us, saying, "they could NOT afford NOT to read" this 8mm film Buyers Guide -- about movie film to video film transfers -- of 8mm film to DVD, Super 8 Movie Film to DVD, and 16mm Movie Film to DVD in detail -- from video master concepts to view-only media concepts.
Whether you use my film transfer service, or not, please read my 8mm Film to DVD and Blu-ray Buyers Guide. After reading my tutorial, you will know how to safely preserve your 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm film -- and the memory of your family -- forever.
The truth is, "film transfer mills" (as I call them) would simply rather you not know anything about regular 8mm, Super 8mm, and 16mm film transfers to DVD or Blu-ray.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: We are not negative on DVD as a format -- or Blu-ray.. After all, one of my websites is named Film-to-DVD.com and we have produced hundreds of thousands of DVDs -- since they first introduced..
We are negative on the dangerous idea that DVD and Blu-ray (i.e., the MPEG2 format and H.264 format for HDTV) are an acceptable archive media and format types for your 8mm, Super 8mm, or 16mm film.
We are experts in re-mastering film to video and archiving this "Digital-Film™", as we call it, as both master video files and virtual video discs. A large amount of our commercial work is 16mm film -- which has appeared on PBS and other networks -- as part of our "national treasures". And, yes, we love to transfer film for "Mom and Pop" home movie films, because the legacy of the Great American Family -- and their home movie film -- is being lost.
As leaders in movie film transfer products, we are the first to release the state-of-the-art Home Movie Card™ and VIRTUAL-DVD™ discs -- products for hand-held video devices like iPhone, etc. And on the cutting-edge, VIRTUAL-Blu-ray™ discs.
You may now go to Dirty Little Trade Secrets™; or read the (VERY BORING) tech note below.
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| Above: Small
format movie film 16mm movie film, Standard 8mm movie film, and Super 8 movie
film.
Mid 1920's to late 1960's.
Silent 16mm movie film (into early 1950's) and all 8mm
movie film "should run" at 16 fps.
The size of the holes are the same for both 16mm movie film and 8mm movie film. Some 16mm has only one set of holes -- like Regular 8 film. Super 8 movie film has smaller holes - less than half the size of 8mm movie film. Standard 8mm movie film was first sold as a "double" reel of 25 foot 16mm movie film, split down the center at the time of processing to create a finished 50 foot reel -- on a grey plastic 3" spool. Yellow cardboard box -- for mailing. 8mm movie film was later sold and processed on 50 foot spools -- which were usually a blue cover with a white plastic spool.. |
TECHNICAL (VERY BORING) NOTE ON SEMANTICS:
Even though I do not specifically state the words "16mm film" when talking about film transfers to DVD -- talking instead about Regular 8, and Super 8 film to video film transfers to DVD -- all the principles -- illustrated as 8mm film or Super 8 film -- apply to 16mm film, too. A large amount of our commercial work is 16mm film -- which has appeared on PBS and other networks.
I use 8mm or Super 8 terms generically -- for example:
super 8mm to video,
super 8mm transfer,
8mm film to video,
super 8mm film transfer,
8mm to video,
8mm movie to video,
8mm telecine,
movie 8mm transfer,
8mm transfer,
Ektasound 8mm to DVD,
Ektachrome 8mm to DVD,
File to video,
Film to Flash Drive,
Film to Hard Drive,
Film to Blu-ray, etc
ALL these phrases refer generically to some "film to video process" of converting film to digital video unless otherwise stated specifically.
Even though my terminology may be specific to a stated gauge of film -- Regular 8mm film, Super 8 film, or 16mm film -- you may expand any reference to any gauge of film into a generalized concept that can be applied to all small film formats.
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