8mm Movie Scans - Preserve Your Past!

[@timothylarson3558]

The FPP has done a FANTASTIC job with all of the films I have sent to them to scan. The difference between transfers from 20 years ago and the scans from within the past year is just incredible. Thank you!!

[@super8blog71]

Getting digitised version of family footage is essential. I got this done locally a few years ago and this was before 4K. I remember some of my grandfather's footage melted in the projector when my uncle was filming it with his camcorder and projecting on a wall. The direct scan method is always best.

[@spencerbacon]

I have had four vintage scans done by FPP and their great! Redundancies are best way to be safe. When I get my scans back, I upload them to 2 hard drives, my desktop and I put them on my Google drive.

[@cltmuscledude66]

I have bought the Wolverine film scanner and have scanned a whole lot of old family films, both regular 8 and super 8. It worked well for the most part, but was tedious at times sometimes having to manually feed the film through (from the supply reel) because sometimes the back-tension of the reel caused the scans to come out jumpy, and I had to re-do quite a few films as a result. It is quite slow, only scanning about 2 frames or so per second. Good news is the scans surprisingly came out well as a result of the individual frame scanning process. I had to use VLC software to redo the files so that they would play back at 16 to 18 frames per second as original, as the scanner records files at 30 fps (the NTSC TV scanning frequency). Great to hear that FPP is doing it for people now as well, and I'm sure their equipment and work is much more professional than trying to do it yourself.

[@gianlusc]

Awesome scans. But the real long lasting archival medium is the film itself 😉

[@N556ND]

I am so happy with the scans that the FPP did for me. Like Owen the films had been transferred to VHS but the tape had been lost. The films look amazing and I look forward to having Mike and his team scan more of what I've been finding in the family archives.

[@LyndonSoulGroove]

Hi Guys & All At FPP Happy 2021 so interesting, my Dad had some films transferred to VHS in the 80's & later when VHS to DVD recorders were available he transferred them to DVD was good to but he had the forsight to keep the 8mm & super8 films, when he passed away in 2018 i decided to get back into super 8 & using a similar piece of equipment to Wolverine done some of them again, and yes its good to have them on Blue ray as well as thumb drive , hard drive. Yes Owen you mention Blu ray. in Dec 2020, I bought a pioneer Blue ray burner too, as you say you got to think of future preservation ....I bought 4 blank blue ray discs of M type for better longevity

[@bluelightnin9819]

The FPP scans look awesome. I have family home movies 8mm and super8 dating back to 1957, unfortunately they've been in 2 floods and one fire. They are in hideous shape, some are not even legible, and the ones that are, are blue, many looking almost B&W, and lots of the films' sprocket holes are terribly torn. Can FPP restore much color. When I take stills from the frames, I can then edit them in XNview, and just by increasing the red level by 33, they look much better. I got my Dad's college graduation, in 1959, and made some pretty good stills from very blue faded frames. Tell me/show me, link me to what I might expect if I have FPP make these as good as possible. I'm happy to see this. I got your address/URL on a card that came with a bottle of emulsion I bought on Amazon.

[@DethronerX]

I guess you guys said it all, whats more to be said. Film is film, digital is digital, they have their own beauty and agree that film should be stored, because you never know what technology you get tomorrow that can do even a better scan or projection. May even turn your movie into a 3D Hologram. Also, i was checking up on what new movies are coming on celluloid and so many titles and i feel overwhelmed, because some people can start to make you feel like the format is dead and Hollywood has turned it's back and Arrie Alexa is taking over, but that's not right, check "kodak . com/en/motion/page/shot-on-film" and there is list with some badass titles coming our way. Get ready!

[@Brendan9674]

You may have mentioned this in a podcast episode but does the F.P.P. scan regular 8mm as well? Also, if I understood correctly, you clean the film first; should this concern me for regular 8mm film shot in the early 60´s and Super 8 from not much later? I worried about the emulsion lifting off. Thanks

[@FilmPhotographyProject]

Hi Brendan, The FPP can scan 8mm, Super 8, 16mm and 35mm movie film. We inspect, clean and prep all vintage film before scanning. No worries on lifting the emulsion. - Mike

[@N556ND]

Brendan, The FPP did about 1500 feet of regular 8 for me and they look beautiful.

[@Brendan9674]

@@FilmPhotographyProject Thanks very much. Happy New Year.

[@Brendan9674]

@@N556ND Thanks Tyler. I appreciate it. Happy New Year!