Anyone know anything about converting Super8 film to a digital format?

[Jerry®]

My brother and I are wanting to convert a box of home movies from Super8 to a digital format for my mother and to preserve them. I've been Googling a bit and there are services that do it from Walmart to Walgreens but it's expensive. We have no more than 15 - 3in reels of Super8. Wouldn't it be cool if there was an inexpensive machine that you could feed the film into and it would automatically digitize it? Anyway, anyone know of services, DIY, etc? One problem is I don't think we have a projector anymore. Any help on this project would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks all

Jerry

[Jerry®]

Is this such a machine????


Magnasonic All-In-One

[C(-)ris]

Jerry® wrote:
Is this such a machine????


Magnasonic All-In-One

Looks like it, Amazon sells it as well. No reviews to speak of...this would do a much better job, but overkill for your use:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=1108887&gclid=Cj0KEQiA6IC2BRDcjPrjm_istoUBEiQASrLz1n7kWPp7c5jfZ-L-03eiYEXyWQaHGqe7eyQGWMxOMdcaAuhG8P8HAQ&is=REG&ap=y&m=Y&Q=&A=details

[Racer X]

You do realize that you need to scan each frame one at a time, and then run them together into a movie, don't you?

[Jerry®]

Racer X wrote:
You do realize that you need to scan each frame one at a time, and then run them together into a movie, don't you?

Ahhh no I did not know that. Thanks for pointing it out

[jimbrady]

I'm thinking find a projector that works and shoot video of the projected image.

[rgG]

jimbrady wrote:
I'm thinking find a projector that works and shoot video of the projected image.

My dad did this to some of our old 50's-60's ear Super 8 film. It works well enough, but by no means looks great. Plus, some of that old film can be brittle and you want to be very careful running it through the projector.

[GGD]

I have no experience whatsoever with this service but I do know that Costco offers movie film transfer to DVD.

http://www.costcodvd.com/services_and_pricing-film.aspx

The 3" reels are 50' of film, so Costco's pricing would be about $100 to do all 15 reels.

[Jerry®]

GGD wrote:
I have no experience whatsoever with this service but I do know that Costco offers movie film transfer to DVD.

http://www.costcodvd.com/services_and_pricing-film.aspx

The 3" reels are 50' of film, so Costco's pricing would be about $100 to do all 15 reels.

Walmart has the exact same service. I think we just might go with the service instead of trying to do it ourselves. Thanks!!

[rz]

jimbrady wrote:
I'm thinking find a projector that works and shoot video of the projected image.

My inlaws did that a few years back. They sat around and added commentary while it was playing back too.