The movie project I’m currently working on runs 43mins. It has been a tedious process trying to get 8mm film that is 40 years old into a digital format good enough to out to DVD. The key to the whole process is quality but, what I have learned is quality is expensive. Being that I’m not rich I have had to find the best medium between cost and quality. At the end of the day I found with a couple hundred bucks it’s been well within my grasp to make a fairly inexpensive product.

My equipment consisted of my mother’s Analog video recorder and an 8mm/Super 8 movie project which has variable speed control. With a bit of experimentation with backlighting, speed control and angles I was able to copy the movies to VHS tape format.
Once you get this into this media it’s a simple matter to get them into an AVI NTSC format that can be enhanced digitally. All of the above was the really the hardest part of the entire project.

I’m now in the editing phase using Pinnacle Studio 9.1 and having so much fun editing out bad spots in the film. This software cost me about $90 dollars and is proving to be worth every penny I paid for it.