Rogue Idea

Well like I said I found a lot of different Video Conversion things in my quest to burn a dvd. I’ve even thought about playing it and re recording it off my screen but I thought the quality would be halved. Anyways you know those tape to dvd converters they have? Well yeah we’ve tried those before and lets just say the quality isn’t really top notch. But then again, I think maybe we just used a bad machine.

Okay so I found this place that can convert 8mm film to dvd , which surprisingly I actually have a lot of from my really old camera. They have a website that tells you about it at www.videoconversionexperts.com. This is great because then I don’t have to lug film around (not that it is going anywhere, but clearing up space is always good). Plus I can put it on the computer and make sure I can keep it or back it up whenever and still have some sort of hard copy to keep. They also do film transfer which is like film to dvd. Now the thing that doesn’t make sense is that they have different levels to choose from and the first two are the cheapest but they don’t improve the quality at all. In fact, the first one says the quality will be reduced! I guess if you were really desperate and had no money (although, if you had no money you probably shouldn’t be worrying yourself with converting film or 8mm film to dvd) you could choose the lowest ones. But obviously if I wanted to do this I’d probably just choose the highest one and let them make it better to get it over with. They charge anywhere from 12 to 45 cents per foot though and honestly I have no idea how many ‘feet’ of film I might have. It’s mostly old stuff from my parents.

Anyways I’ll probably ask my parents if they want to convert anything so I’m saving the address here in case I need it later. Plus their samples look pretty good and it would be nice to move on and away from some of the old tape and film we have.