I'm an 8mm film star, baby!

Part of the film being digitized in the previous video. I think I'm around 13 months old here.

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  1. P^2 - Paul (29 months ago | reply)

    Toolset:
    K100D camera, with AC adapter
    Irfanview for batch cropping/resample/colour correction
    PhotoLapse to build video clips
    MS Movie Maker to assemble into a movie.
    (real men would have used ffmpeg...)

    >16000 frames, 200 feet, 17 minutes of film
    12 hours of digitizing
    8 GB of source images
    6 GB of disk space
    6 hours of data massaging
    100MB output file

  2. Tate Nations (29 months ago | reply)

    I bet you were trying to figure out how that car worked.

  3. alan_sailer (29 months ago | reply)

    shockingbird,

    Heck no, he was walking around to flex his tired legs after working under the car :-)

    Nice job Paul.

    Cheers.

  4. P^2 - Paul (29 months ago | reply)

    Thanks.

    I can't recall what I was doing with that car. :-)

    Actually, I find it mildly disturbing that I have absolutely no recollection of any of the events in the whole 17-minute film.

  5. Rob Cruickshank (28 months ago | reply)

    This looks really good!

  6. alan_sailer (28 months ago | reply)

    Paul,

    Deep hypnosis and the proper drugs will bring total recall.

    Advise against :-)

    Cheers.

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  8. Pyrofer (28 months ago | reply)

    For Some reason, the last few seconds look very much like you filmed the JFK assassination.

    Looks like a fairly average day for a boy that age, no reason you would have committed it to memory. I cant remember last week...

    Great work on the conversion though, always great to save those treasured family memories.

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  10. Knusper (28 months ago | reply)

    I seriously think of filming in 8mm again, because there is some aura all these films have... And who knows, maybe in 30 years or so, many of the digital formats cameras produce today will be unviewable?!

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  11. mike cash (28 months ago | reply)

    I didn't recognize you without your mustache.

  12. Tilly_McKellar (28 months ago | reply)

    Just wanted to brag on your work. I know it took a lot of work but the outcome is great.
    Good job!

  13. 3960cc20250c1cbbb2d5cce90359c063 (28 months ago | reply)

    Great job, but what about the audio? :)

  14. aragost (28 months ago | reply)

    I just bought an app that makes my phone shoot fake-8mm video. The irony! ;) Nice idea, and love the result!

  15. wolfdog_1987 (28 months ago | reply)

    Awesome work, im a huge fan of anything retro and old. Being able to bring back an original film from that long ago and making it viewable on modern equipment makes me feel all fuzzy inside hehe.

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  17. Holden Richards (21 months ago | reply)

    Super result!

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  19. technograd1 (14 months ago | reply)

    Yes, a little resemblance with the JFK footage, but nevermind, you were CUUUTE! :D

  20. vineyardedge13 (6 months ago | reply)

    That came out great. I am still trying to find out how to do the LED light source and the frame by frame. Thanks for the help!

  21. P^2 - Paul (6 months ago | reply)

    Well, stay tuned... I have a new shutterless camera and multi-colour (IR-R-G-B) LED source being tested now... I seem to have acquired a cubic foot of film reels from family wanting to see them in digital form, so Rev2 of the digitizer is warranted.

  22. Cyrix_2k (6 weeks ago | reply)

    Nice! I'm working on my own DIY 8mm Telecine so digitize our old family movies. Glad to see you picked up a shutterless camera because this kind of work will burn up shutters in a hurry! I see a lot of people using webcams with good results. I'm planning to use either a broken P&S with a bare CCD or a webcam myself.

    See my project log here:
    www.rjnunnally.com/tag/telecine/

  23. Alan Klein 100 (5 weeks ago | reply)

    Nice conversion. Cute kid. Thanks for posting. Alan

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