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8 mm to DVD at Costco. Great Present for my Wifes Mother and Family - Microman - 12-06-2008

Long time ago, I was given to 5 inch reels of 8 mm to transfer to digital. I finally took them to Costco, and received them today. They look great. At least they won't dissolve now.

There was 490 feet, and ends up being about 33 minutes of video.

Has anyone else done this with Costco?. I notice on the CD, it says for easy editing and to capture pictures to put it in a PC. I thought there might be some sort of software that is installed that would work only on a PC, but I don't see anything. Talks about digital scrapbook.

Is there a way I can export small portions of this video to share online with my kids? Right now its in the VIDEO.TS regular DVD format.


Re: 8 mm to DVD at Costco. Great Present for my Wifes Mother and Family - nwyaker - 12-06-2008

What was the cost ?


Re: 8 mm to DVD at Costco. Great Present for my Wifes Mother and Family - Mac1337 - 12-06-2008

I had them digitize slides for me and the came out fine. Price was orders of magnitude cheaper than anywhere else.


Re: 8 mm to DVD at Costco. Great Present for my Wifes Mother and Family - Microman - 12-06-2008

first 150 feet was 19.99 and then every ft is .12. Think is was aroun 60 bucks.


Re: 8 mm to DVD at Costco. Great Present for my Wifes Mother and Family - Grateful11 - 12-06-2008

Microman did they add music to the video, assuming it was silent to
begin with? I had some transferred about 20 years ago to VHS and they
added seasonally appropriate music to the scenes. I guess I need to
transfer the VHS to DVD now.


Re: 8 mm to DVD at Costco. Great Present for my Wifes Mother and Family - Microman - 12-06-2008

We chose not to have music, but probably should have. What surprised me was that they had a great cover with about 50 stills from the movie, and the menus were easy to move around in. Had Scenes 0-9, etc, and there also was 3 one minute movies that you click on and get samples of the video, switching like a slide show to three different types of music. It is great. And they gave me 2 DVD's.


Re: 8 mm to DVD at Costco. Great Present for my Wifes Mother and Family - modelamac - 12-07-2008

I think that with QuickTime Pro, you can record what is playing on your screen. QT Pro is $30.

It's a gamble, but if you play the DVD on your Mac, you might be able to record certain portions (mini movies) that you can then share.


Re: 8 mm to DVD at Costco. Great Present for my Wifes Mother and Family - runwink - 12-10-2008

Under "My Computer" you can right click to play movie. Then a menu comes up where you can select Digital Scrapbook. It looks like the Windows Movie Maker program. You can then edit and export clips (ie export storyboard).
However, mine doesn't work. It says I don't have Windows Media Encoder. I downloaded it from Microsoft and I get the same message. Anyone else do this?