Home Movie Transfer and Film to Video Conversions:
5 Star Media can convert film to video and other formats as needed.
We transfer those old home movies & slides of yours into a crisp and colorful video complete with easy listening music. We transfer your reels to video.
North Carolina Video Services - Home Movie Transfer
Why Home Movies on Video or DVD?
WE can transfer between the following media:
8mm film transfer
Super 8 transfer
16 mm transfer
Sound film
8 mm film
"Super 8" 8 mm films8 mm film is a motion picture film format in
which the filmstrip is eight millimeters wide. It exists in two main
versions: the original standard 8mm film, also known as regular 8mm
or double 8mm, and Super 8. There are also two other varieties of
Super 8 which require different cameras but which produce a final
film with the same dimensions.
Standard 8
The standard 8 mm film format was developed by the Eastman Kodak
company during the Great Depression and released on the market in
1932 to create a home movie format that was less expensive than 16
mm. The film spools actually contain a 16 mm film with twice as many
perforations along each edge than normal 16 mm film, which is only
exposed along half of its width. When the film reaches its end in
the takeup spool, the camera is opened and the spools in the camera
are flipped and swapped (the design of the spool hole ensures that
this happens properly) and the same film is exposed along the side
of the film left unexposed on the first loading. During processing,
the film is split down the middle, resulting in two lengths of 8 mm
film, each with a single row of perforations along one edge, thereby
fitting four times as many frames in the same amount of 16 mm film.
Because the spool was reversed after filming on one side to allow
filming on the other side the format was sometimes called Double 8.
The frame size of regular 8 mm is 4.8 mm x 3.5 mm and 1m film
contains 264 pictures. Normally Double8 is filmed at 16 frames per
second.
Common length film spools allowed filming of about 3 minutes to 4.5
minutes at 12, 15, 16 and 18 frames per second.
Kodak ceased selling standard 8 mm film in the early 1990s, but
continued to produce the film, which was sold via independent film
stores. Black-and-white 8 mm film is still manufactured in the Czech
Republic, and several companies buy bulk quantities of 16 mm film to
make regular 8 mm by re-perforating the stock, cutting it into 25
foot (7.6 m) lengths, and collecting it into special standard 8 mm
spools which they then sell. Re-perforation requires special
equipment. Some specialists also produce super 8 mm film from
existing 16 mm, or even 35 mm film stock.
Super 8
Some Super 8 footage shot in Wellington New ZealandIn 1965, Super-8
film was released and was quickly adopted by the amateur film-maker.
It featured a better quality image, and was easier to use mainly due
to a cartridge-loading system which did not require re-loading
halfway through. Sometimes, the improvement was not as apparent,
since the film gate in some cheap Super 8 cameras was plastic as was
the pressure plate, which was built in to the cartridge, whereas the
standard 8 cameras had a permanent metal film gate that better kept
the image in focus.
There was another version of Super-8 film, Single-8, produced by
Fuji in Japan. It has the same final film dimensions, but the
cassette is different. The Kodak system was by far the most popular.
Super-8 was at one point available with a magnetic sound track at
the edge of the film but this only made up 5 to 8% of Super-8 sales
and was discontinued in the 1990s.
There has been a huge resurgence of Super-8 film in recent years due
to advances in film stocks and digital technology. Film can handle
far greater variations in contrast than video cameras and thus has
become an alternative for acquisition. The idea is to shoot on the
low cost Super-8 equipment then transfer the film to video for
editing. In recent years, the format itself has been further
improved by enlarging the aperture of the camera to expose into the
now obsolete sound track region allowing for a wide-screen image.
This has been given the title "super-duper-8" or "max-8" and is
gradually gaining popularity despite the availability of affordable
digital video cameras.
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