[tommy]

I'm looking for recommendations on transferring my parents old Super 8 mm movies (on reels) to a digital format to edit with iMovie and iDVD. Any advice on places that do this? There are tons of sites on the web so looking for places that people have first hand experience dealing with. Thanks.

[msuper69]

Originally posted by tommy:
I'm looking for recommendations on transferring my parents old Super 8 mm movies (on reels) to a digital format to edit with iMovie and iDVD. Any advice on places that do this? There are tons of sites on the web so looking for places that people have first hand experience dealing with. Thanks.

My advice would be to find someone local if possible. What would you do if something happened to those movies?

I'm about to do a similar project, some of my movies are nearly 50 years old. I'm probably going to buy a used 8/Super 8 projector (or two) on eBay and transfer them to MiniDV by projection using a Canon GL1 camcorder. I've checked around and having them done professionally (using a telecine machine) is way beyond my means. They typically want $200-300 per hour or more.

Good Luck!

[KeyLimePi]

About ten years ago I paid a place to transfer some old super8 to VHS. Their price was good, but all they did was set up a projector and point a camcorder at the screen. Which was good enough I guess (the quality of the films weren't that great to begin with).

msuper69 is right...a film chain would be VERY expensive, and if your movies aren't that good to begin with it's kind of overkill. I would, as he suggested, just invest about $600 in a DV camcorder and try to convert these youself. And when you're finished, you'll have the movies and a brand new camera to show for it.