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Where can I transfer my home movies onto DVDs?

Good place to get super-8mm home movies put on DVDs in NYC?

  • Lots of home movies, some are super-8, some are tapes, some are mini-DV tapes, etc. I'd like to get them put on DVDs that I can then easily edit. I'm in Manhattan, NYC. thanks (oh a long time ago there was another question like this and somebody suggested a mail-order place, but I don't feel comfortable sending off my precious home movies from the 1950s etc. away)

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    I hear good things about Dijifi from my analog filmmaker friends. If you don't know about it already, http://filmforever.org/ is a wonderful guide to DIY preservation best practices for taking care of your originals.

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We had this done by http://www.dijifi.com/ in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It's a clean, well-run place, and they did a great job with fast turn around.

kimdog

Digital is easier to work with than full fledged DVD format and can easily be transferred to DVD after you're through editing.

Obscure Reference

http://www.pac-lab.com/ are about the only walk in super 8 transfer place in Manhattan nowadays. I used to use them for film making and they were fine. They do do transfer to digital but I don't know specifically that they transfer to DVD. I can't imagine they don't though!

merocet

I did it recently via somebody I found on Ebay. The prices were quite reasonable. I'm on my phone at the moment but if you want me to dig up the info let me know.

COD

My friend did this the low budget way, by playing the movies and filming the projection with a digital camera...the results were actually pretty good.

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