When you were a kid, did you ever ask your parents what they were like when they were a kid? What about your grandparents or great grandparents? What if you could turn the clock back in time to see how they lived? With a little bit of luck you can. Many people have old home movies sitting in their garage or closets and can convert these 8mm films to DVD preserving your family's history for you and future generations to enjoy.
Having your 8mm movie films digitally converted to DVD is really very easy to do and actually quite rewarding. Everyone in the family has enjoyed seeing how my my parents and their parents lived. Personally I've really enjoyed knowing more about my grandfather who passed away unfortunately before I was born. Its been neat to see how they really lived: what their houses were like, how they dressed, what cars they drove, and how the celebrated life and it's special moments.
It's funny how you feel like you know someone so much better when you get to see them in motion. Viewing these films are very much indeed a visual family history. This has been a real pleasure and endless source of conversation for the whole family - everyone now would like to know more.
Interest in family history and genealogy as a whole has grown significantly.Many people are hunting for documents and public records of all types such as marriage licenses, birth certificates, immigrations, and old photos to name just a few. Documents like these leave us to only imagine what our ancestors were really like. What if though, we had a movie of them, in motion, something as simple as a walk, or even a smile? Such a thing would be a family treasure. For this reason digitizing your 8mm films to DVD is so important for you and future generations.
8mm movie film, like all film, is decaying. Many classics form Hollywood's golden era are gone forever, and because of this there are many film preservation groups spending large amounts of money to preserve and restore what is still left. It's more than just age that affects a film's survival, other determining factors include how its been stored, the film's manufacturing process, and the quality of it's development or processing. Shockingly even some films less than 20 years old have faded badly - Jaws (1975) is a famous example of this. The film's director, Stephen Spielberg, viewed his master copy only 15 years later to find it badly deteriorated. Since then, Mr. Spielberg been a big proponent of film preservation.
Those of us without Hollywood size budgets to spend on film restoration should put our attention to storing our films correctly to slow down their deterioration and to convert them to DVD as quickly as possible.
The task may seem daunting, but you can start as soon as today; I'll show you how. To help you along I've created a website dedicated to 8mm film to DVD conversion, 8mmfilmtodvd.net that summarizes hundreds of hours of my research on 8mm film conversion. Admittedly, I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I've researched how 8mm film was manufactured, why it's decaying, all the various techniques and equipment used to convert it to digital, the best ways to store the original films, DVD media types and their respective lifespans, the video compression formats available, among many other topics. I've spent the time doing it, why not benefit from it? The website will show you that after a few quick decisions, mostly regarding how to you want to use and enjoy your movies, you can begin as soon as today. I hope you find converting and sharing your home movies as enjoyable as I have.
Having your 8mm movie films digitally converted to DVD is really very easy to do and actually quite rewarding. Everyone in the family has enjoyed seeing how my my parents and their parents lived. Personally I've really enjoyed knowing more about my grandfather who passed away unfortunately before I was born. Its been neat to see how they really lived: what their houses were like, how they dressed, what cars they drove, and how the celebrated life and it's special moments.
It's funny how you feel like you know someone so much better when you get to see them in motion. Viewing these films are very much indeed a visual family history. This has been a real pleasure and endless source of conversation for the whole family - everyone now would like to know more.
Interest in family history and genealogy as a whole has grown significantly.Many people are hunting for documents and public records of all types such as marriage licenses, birth certificates, immigrations, and old photos to name just a few. Documents like these leave us to only imagine what our ancestors were really like. What if though, we had a movie of them, in motion, something as simple as a walk, or even a smile? Such a thing would be a family treasure. For this reason digitizing your 8mm films to DVD is so important for you and future generations.
8mm movie film, like all film, is decaying. Many classics form Hollywood's golden era are gone forever, and because of this there are many film preservation groups spending large amounts of money to preserve and restore what is still left. It's more than just age that affects a film's survival, other determining factors include how its been stored, the film's manufacturing process, and the quality of it's development or processing. Shockingly even some films less than 20 years old have faded badly - Jaws (1975) is a famous example of this. The film's director, Stephen Spielberg, viewed his master copy only 15 years later to find it badly deteriorated. Since then, Mr. Spielberg been a big proponent of film preservation.
Those of us without Hollywood size budgets to spend on film restoration should put our attention to storing our films correctly to slow down their deterioration and to convert them to DVD as quickly as possible.
The task may seem daunting, but you can start as soon as today; I'll show you how. To help you along I've created a website dedicated to 8mm film to DVD conversion, 8mmfilmtodvd.net that summarizes hundreds of hours of my research on 8mm film conversion. Admittedly, I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I've researched how 8mm film was manufactured, why it's decaying, all the various techniques and equipment used to convert it to digital, the best ways to store the original films, DVD media types and their respective lifespans, the video compression formats available, among many other topics. I've spent the time doing it, why not benefit from it? The website will show you that after a few quick decisions, mostly regarding how to you want to use and enjoy your movies, you can begin as soon as today. I hope you find converting and sharing your home movies as enjoyable as I have.
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