On Aug 28, 2005, at 9:17 AM, Gianni Maselli wrote:
I'm sorry if I seem to complicated; it's just to say I don't believe
possible to have good results starting with 8mm tapes and passes
them thru
iMovie; I don't think FinalCut has the right tools either but I
might be
wrong...
In 8mm tapes the bandwidth is narrow and shared by the luma and chroma
signals which sometimes even crosses their own room. Spacial
resolution is
also low.
All that is true, but if you just bridge the analog signal into DV,
it looks about as good as it ever did in 8mm.
If you're planning to broadcast the film on the history channel, you
might want to do more. If its your own film for your own watching
pleasure, then 8mm bridged into DV will be fine.
If you want to abandon the format of the original tapes, probably
better to copy them onto DV or other format for original video rather
than count on the DVD-R to be archival medium.
The easiest way to do this is to get a Sony Digital 8 camera. It can
play your 8mm tapes into iMovie, and most of them can act as a live
bridge, which is very convenient.
