Need Advice -Converting 35MM Slides and 8MM movies to CD/DVD

[o_puppychow]

Below is an excerpt of an email my Dad sent to me..it pretty much is clear on what he wants to do. I'm still trying to convince him to outsource this, but he is determined.

******One of my big projects for the year is to put old family pictures, 35MM slides and 8MM movies on CD. I could really use your technical help in advising me on what equipment I will need to purchase and probably some help in setting this equipment up.


I’ll handle the production work.


I think I’ll be saving money by doing this project myself with purchasing the right equipment. I think I might have to purchase some Apple equipment?? I might have to outsource the movies but the slides and pictures I should be able to do myself.


End result is that everything will be saved on to CDs’ for all of us.


Please think about it and we can begin to talk about it.


Thanks for your help on this.

******End of email

Any suggestions much appreciated!

[o_broodingdude]

Hmm...

You would need reader equipment for the 8mm and the 35mm media.
These readers would need output capability. Say, output to TV or Tuner. Just a 'line out' would probably suffice. Now, you need INPUTS on your computer. Say like a TV tuner card, or a video card with an 'input from TV' capability. A TiVO compatible card should work. This is the tricky part. You have to find software on the 'net that is compatible with your card and has 'capture' features, at high resolutions. You may also need an 'Adobe Photoshop' or similar program that lets you make corrections. So in essence, your software must have 'recording' and 'capture' capability.

Notes: Resolutions, clarity and all that may be at risk from this.

Some scanners let you capture negatives or film stills on film and actually process it for you. Thereby making a picture for you.

Some stores will process your slides for you and make them in to pictures, from there you can scan them, or just have the store put it on CD for you.

[mervaka]

ideally, the movie would be captured on a frame by frame basis, but that would be a lot harder than simply recording via a video stream :/

[o_puppychow]

Originally Posted by broodingdude

Hmm...

You would need reader equipment for the 8mm and the 35mm media.
These readers would need output capability. Say, output to TV or Tuner. Just a 'line out' would probably suffice. Now, you need INPUTS on your computer. Say like a TV tuner card, or a video card with an 'input from TV' capability. A TiVO compatible card should work. This is the tricky part. You have to find software on the 'net that is compatible with your card and has 'capture' features, at high resolutions. You may also need an 'Adobe Photoshop' or similar program that lets you make corrections. So in essence, your software must have 'recording' and 'capture' capability.

Notes: Resolutions, clarity and all that may be at risk from this.

Some scanners let you capture negatives or film stills on film and actually process it for you. Thereby making a picture for you.

Some stores will process your slides for you and make them in to pictures, from there you can scan them, or just have the store put it on CD for you.

i think you just need a reader like the below that simple connects via usb, correct? tv tuner and all that im assuming is not needed.

http://www.fotoconnection.com/vi-564...an-V-9239.html

http://www.provantage.com/microtek-1...7~7MTEK844.htm

please flog me if i am incorrect

[o_ginger lord]

My old school had a negative scanner that I borrowed over the summer holidays so my dad could start scanning in his thousands of slides, took 6 at a time into a tray, scanned, adjusted, removed dust/specks/scratches and outputted to .raw/.tif/.jpg so you could put them onto CD.

iirc the actual unit cost around £200 and it was amazingly slow to do, as in scan time of at least 5s per slide not counting it moving around and optimising it.

[o_broodingdude]

I was trying to go for cheap...

but if your budget is around $1000 or more then yeah... go that way.