Posted by Phil M on 02/08/07 22:01

To telecine Regular 8mm in with a professional Rank Cintel Flying Spot
Scanner (the one that Hollywood uses to digitize their motion pictures
for DVD authoring) using a wetgate transfer, scene to scene DaVinci
color timing to uncompressed AVI or MOV, you don't have many options:

The only company in North America who has a regular8 gate for this
beast is Posthouse:

www.posthouse.com

I used their regular 8 and s8 services and their prices are extremely
reasonable. In a wetgate transfer, the scratches of your 8mm are
greatly reduced. The Cintel's Xenon lamp reproduces faithfully the
color on the film. Furthermore, no cameras are involved. The film is
scanned frame by frame. You simply get the best of the best.

Next in quality, you have the Video Workpriner by
http://www.moviestuff.tv/8mm_telecine.html
Their quality is very good. (no wetgate transfer is possible, and a
camera pickup device is used to "capture" the film)

Further down in quality you have the so called Elmo 8mm projectors.
They are essentially 5-bladed modified film chain projectors with a
built-in single CCD cameras. Quality is mediocre at best. (most "pro"
shops use this method...)

And way further down the list is project your movie to a screen and
sync the shutter of a Canon GL-2 to capture the screen with no
flicker, and hope for the best...


>I want to convert about 1000' of standard 8mm movie film to digital
>Any suggestions on a company that's doing a good job with this?

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