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rdpatrick
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I have a bunch of 8 mm home movies that my dad made when i was little. Is there any way to convert them to DVD short of videotaping them as they are shown on a screen?
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Join Date: Jan 2000
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I have a bunch of 8 mm home movies that my dad made when i was little. Is there any way to convert them to DVD short of videotaping them as they are shown on a screen?
You need to find a company that uses the telecine process to scan each frame and convert it to digital. It is not cheap but it provides the best quality possible.
I would advise trying to find someone local as shipping irreplaceable video to an unknown entity in another town is rather risky in my opinion. Insuring your shipment does no good as you can't replace the film if it gets lost, damaged or destroyed. Best to take it to the location yourself, talk to the people who work there and then decide if you trust them to handle the conversion.
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I got several of our old, silent 8mm movies done here 2.5 years ago:
http://www.homemoviedepot.com/
I highly recommend it.
If you have iMovie and iDVD, you may want to consider doing the final product yourself and just have them do the telecine transfer onto a mini DV tape.
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Buy a movie scanner, use it, then sell it on ebay.
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I'm gearing up to send some less important 8mm movies to http://www.homemoviedepot.com/ as a test. They seem to have the best combo of quality and price that I could find. Especially since I'm also going to get a copy on miniDV.
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Is there any way to convert them to DVD short of videotaping them as they are shown on a screen?
DVD Recorders/Disks are cheap now!!
I copy my 8mm to my DVD recorder and then can play them on the DVD player. If I want to edit it on my Mac I convert the DVD to MP4 through the free iSquint program then edit it through Quick Time Pro.
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Originally Posted by FishNrib
I copy my 8mm to my DVD recorder and then can play them on the DVD player.
I think the OP was referring to 8mm film rather than the 8mm video format. 
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