Has anyone had any experience transferring your old 8mm to DVD?
I’d like to get our old home movies transferred for my parents for Christmas, but have no clue how long it should take, how much it should cost, what options I want etc. Anyone?
I don’t know much about 8mm’s. Did you tape them using a camera with standard (red and white or yellow and white) AV connections?
I recently (and somewhat serendipitously,) ended up with a DVD player/recorder and soon realized I could ignore the illegal roadside signs offering to make transfers for $20 a pop and do it myself. Just a matter of getting a stack of DVD+R’s at Office Depot, plugging the VCR into the DVD recorder and the DVD recorder into the monitor.
Presumably your camera could be plugged in similarly to a DVD recorder?
(btw, I do not recommend the 25 for $5 stacks of DVD+R’s on the specials table at Office Depot. About half were duds, i.e., would not format.
Expect to pay at least $20-30 for a functional stack that size.
The DVD recorder was about $100.)
I have seen a few places offering to do this locally but never followed up. I’d be interested to know what you find out about it, too.
djm
A local studio does a nice job of converting 8mm to DVD.
They recently made a two disc set for my aunt and uncle who lost their first child to cancer… it brought back a lot of memories to be able to watch those old home movies again.
They have also restored and converted some historic footage of my hometown that was shot in the 40’s and 50’s by the owner of the local cinema.
You’ll want to provide your own soundtrack though… theirs is worse than elevator music! 