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Old October 11th, 2009, 08:22 AM   #1
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Super 8 movies to video?

I am new to video and could use any help you can give.I thinking of getting a Canon HF20, one of the things I would like to do with this camera is capture some old Super 8 sound movies. I would like to run the movies and capture them off of the screen, would this be the right way to do this? Would there be a frame rate problem between the two formats? Would the Canon HF20 work for this?
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Old October 11th, 2009, 09:05 AM   #2
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I gather the most import part is getting a quality projector.
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Old October 13th, 2009, 03:55 PM   #3
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glenn,

If you still have a super 8 camera to play the old tapes you can buy a product called "Dazzle" basically converts analog straight from the camera, converts to digital to your computer. I also have a samsung VHS/DVD recorder (model VR357) that will do the same thing...you can record directly to dvd.

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Old October 13th, 2009, 04:11 PM   #4
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I think maybe you're thinking of 8mm or Hi8 video, not film, as we're discussing here. Super 8 is a film format, not tape. With film, you don't play it in a camera -- you need a projector. And you can't stick a cable into either a film camera or a film projector. I mean, you could, but it wouldn't do anything...
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Old October 13th, 2009, 05:51 PM   #5
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Old October 13th, 2009, 11:24 PM   #6
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If you decide to go low-tech and film a projected image off a wall, or whatever, Virtualdub's hotspot filter is worth investigating to help even out the lighting: Hotspot Filter for VirtualDub
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Old October 15th, 2009, 05:13 PM   #7
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Thanks for the info

Thanks for in information I'll check it out ........... Glenn
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