Transfer your Super 8 movies to DVD to extend their life and make them convenient to watch.
In the heyday of film home movie technology, buyers captured their life moments on an improved version of Kodak 8mm film, called Super 8. The product offered an improvement in picture quality over "Double" or "Regular" 8mm film, but nevertheless the format eventually folded against videotape and digital media. The old films still contain bygone moments, but in the modern era they are inconvenient to watch and run the risk of degrading over time. A fairly simple transfer to DVD will give them a whole new lifetime of easy viewing.
Instructions
1. Take your equipment into a reasonably large room with no windows or one in which the windows can be completely shuttered. Place the projection screen against a wall and set up the Super 8 projector in front of it. Beside the projector, mount the camcorder on a tripod and aim it at the projection screen. Activate the light on the projector and make sure the light fits tightly within the bounds of the screen.
2. Turn on the camcorder and look through the viewfinder, adjusting the focus, zoom and position to make sure the light of the projection fits in the camcorder.
3. Load the Super 8 film in the projector. Press the red "Record" button on the camcorder and immediately activate the film projector. When the movie ends, press the "Record" button on the camcorder a second time to end the recording. Turn off the projector.
4. Connect the camcorder to your computer with the Firewire cable. Open the file explorer in the operating system and wait for the icon identifying the camcorder to appear. Double-click the icon to reveal the movie file for the film recording. Open a second file explorer window. Create a new folder for film transfers and open it. Click and drag the movie file from the camcorder folder to the new folder.
5. Open your DVD authoring program and start a new project, creating a blank menu. With the "Add/Import File to Library" button, bring the movie file of the Super 8 recording into the program. Click and drag the movie file onto the blank menu, which will create a button with the file name in text. Right-click the text to delete the file name; type in "Play Movie" or a title for the movie that you will remember. Click the "Burn to Disc" button, insert a blank DVD disc when prompted and wait for the disc to write.
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