Relive childhood memories by watching your old 8mm films on DVD.
Playing old family films and short movies shot on 8mm film can be an arduous task in the digital age. Converting 8mm film to DVD allows easy access to all of your old home movies in addition to saving them as a digital copy for archiving. Preserving 8mm films can be accomplished through the use of a video card with a TV tuner and capture capabilities. There are several options available for video capture cards, including internal cards that plug into a computer's motherboard or external cards that connect via a USB cable.
Instructions
Capturing 8mm Film to MPEG-2
1. Install the video card into your computer, following the manufacturers recommendations.
2. Connect the 8mm player to your video card via the composite media cables. Composite cables consist of three colored plugs: yellow, red and white. The yellow cable is always used to display video information. The red and white cables represent the right and left audio streams respectively. Connect each cable to the corresponding colored hole on the video card.
3. Turn on the computer and launch the video card's capture function according to the manufacturer's instructions.
4. Select the option to save the video in the MPEG-2 file format. If given the option, set the frame rate to 16fps and the film ratio to 16:9 to avoid distorting the film during the conversion.
Creating a DVD
5. Open the DVD-burning software on your computer.
6. Select the option to create a DVD disc.
7. Select the MPEG-2 files that you created from your 8mm film.
8. Organize the files in the order that you want to display them on the DVD.
9. Choose the option to burn the DVD. Test the DVD on a DVD player before deleting the MPEG-2 files.
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