[KLUG Members] 8mm to DVD

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

Scott Thurmond wrote:
> 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 recording
> the video with a video recorder.

Ouch!  Don't any 8mm players have a composite/s-video out?

> 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.

There was one non-linear (i.e. professional), free [beer] video editing
suite for Linux, but they've removed it from their site due to threads
from the MPAA.

As far as analog video capture, I highly recommend a video capture card
that does at least real-time, hardware MJPEG capture (there are several
support under Linux that cost <$200) for 30fps capture at 704x480 NTSC. 
I don't know of any real-time, hardware MPEG-2 capture cards that cost
under $1,000 though (for Windows for that matter!).  Expect frame loss
regardless of your CPU if you try to software capture.

The other option is to just re-record (as you explained above) with a
digital video record that has an IEEE1394 Firewire interface.  Then
you're already digital and Firewire is pretty much an open standard
(with only a small royalty on the actual hardware per IEEE standard
requirements).

-- TheBS

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