[KLUG Members] 8mm to DVD

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>I have tons of old 8mm film that I want to burn onto a DVD.  I have
>been looking on the net for video houses to do this for me but the cost is
>enormous.  By doing it myself I can but a video card and a DVD burner
>and still have saved myself a ton of money (and have a DVD burner out of
>the deal when I am done!!)
>I have been reading about this on the web and it looks like the way
>the video houses accomplish this is to play the 8mm movies with a working
>8mm projector ( I actually have one of these!!) onto a screen while

Hey! So do I.

>recording the video with a video recorder.  Then run the video from the
>recorder into a computer with some video editing software, edit the video
>however you want and then burn it to a DVD.
>First of all, I want to do this totally with Linux and open source.  I
>know I will have to purchase a DVD writer and a good video card.  I need
>some killer video editing software and some pointers if anyone has done
>this before.
>Any ideas?

See if you can find a copy of Broadcast 2000.  It's authors pulled it off the
net for some lame reason but you can still find copies of it on mirrors.  I
played with it a little and it seemed pretty slick,  and I read lots of very
glowing articles about it.  But alas I have no read video acquisition equipment
so I never got anywhere.