Hello Family,
I’m so glad that so many are
enjoying the films that have been converted to digital video from my Pap’s 8mm
movies. I am loving them as much as you
all are.
While the films are all
converted, it’s been my plan all along to down sample the frame rate so the
film doesn’t move so quickly. You see
8mm has a frame rate of about 18fps (frames per second) and these videos are
encoded at 30 fps. I’ve been studying trying to find an application that will
allow me to slow down the films, I’m still working on it and finding a good
tutorial and the right program is taking some time.
There are 59 films that I’ve
converted. The clips that have been
shared so far are just a small fraction of all the films. I have given Aunt Linda (DeSabato-Thompson) a
copy of all of the films and I’d love to share with anyone interested here as
well.
If your TV is a smart TV, and
in general it can play MP4 files, then all you need is a flash drive with all
the files loaded on them. The files I
have take up around 20 gigabytes of room on a flash drive. I recommend this drive bought on amazon for
well under $20 https://amzn.to/2GZ2GsM ... I recommend this drive because it’s the
one that I loaded and shared at Aunt Linda’s house and I know it works.
If you have a TV that is not
a smart TV or might be an older model and may not be able to play the file
format there’s a player that you can buy and connect to your TV via HDMI cable,
this is what I gave Aunt Linda and it works very well, https://amzn.to/2GqbCdF
If you send me a flash drive
I’ll send it back to you loaded up with all the video files. You can just order it on amazon and use my
name as a delivery address, select send as a gift, and use the gift message
that amazon offers to inform me of your name and address where you want the
loaded flash drive sent to. Please contact me on Facebook and I'll be glad to give you my address.
It’s my hope that everyone
wants a copy. And by the way, if you’re
close to someone that has a copy, you can just create a copy yourself
from any pc, from the source flash drive to another flash drive with enough
space.
Lastly, I really enjoy seeing
these old movies. I’d be honored and so
excited if any of you were to ask me to convert old movies that you have, I
also can do great scans of old photos with some enhancement and I also am able
to convert old slides to digital files.
These old films are laying in basements filled with wonderful memories
and I doubt any of us take out a projector and put up a screen near as often as
we’d like to. If you have any interest
in having any old media converted, please contact me. This is not a business I’m not offering to do
this for any financial gain, just to bring our families memories back to
life.
PS. My next projects will be
converting VHS to digital. So if any of
us have VHS of our weddings, I’d be glad to help out there too!
