Old 8mm to DVD conversions, settings

[Sameer Shrivastava]

Hi,
I dont think so the the quality of dv will be great in this method. first of all, you will not get sync. i.e you will see black bands on the picture. you did.nt tell your camera is ntsc or pal. you can get good sync if your projector can be made to run at 25fps if shooting for pal,not 24fps.

it’s better to get it transfered to beta/dv from a telecine house or people who do professional conversions. some photographic dealers still do.

considering you have captured a good dv.
leave the GOP setting default.
the field order is lower field first everywhere if you are working with dv. i.e camera captures lower field first. that’s why you have to keep it that way in the entire chain

sameer
ps

if you can sync your projector to your dvand not happy with the contrast of the image(please do the below at your own risks)

remove the projector lens and with a macro lens or cu lenses attached to your dv camera try to frame the projector gate. and then shoot

or remove the dv camera lens( you will have to fool the camera electronics so that it still detects that lens is attached and camera works) keep the camera and projector head to head thier optical axis aligned and project the image directly on the ccd. you will have some time focusing the projector such a small image.
the lens of the projector have to come quite a way ahead to project such a image.

any way i think these procedures are risky and good for people who know what they are doing.

[Larry Sherwood]

I am one of the product specialists for the new Matrox Axio/PPro product, I was doing the main theatre demos at the Matrox booth at NAB. I also have a business called Photage Digital Studios and we specialize in 8mm transfers.
This is a completely professional scanned transfer and depending on the amount of footage you have, could be as little as 10 cents per foot. I have done work for others on the COW. Check my bio, I am one of the forum leaders at the Discreet Edit forum. If you are interested, email me offline larry@sherwoodpost.com. I hope I can help you out, you would be very disappointed trying to shoot film images projected onto a wall.

LS