Re: What encoding for archival movies???

From: Tim (it2gati_at_ituniv.se)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:42:49 +0200

"Charles Sullivan" <cwsulliv@triad.rr.com> wrote
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:08:34 +0200, Tim wrote:

> > "Charles Sullivan" <cwsulliv@triad.rr.com> wrote
> >> I have some 60-year-old home movies which I had converted
> > Cool. What kind, not by any chance the Pamela kind? sorry... dont read
this
> > line.
>
> I don't know about "the Pamela kind", but there is nudity
> involved on one of the later clips - namely me writhing sensually
> on a blanket at age 6 weeks. :-)

Lol, that was good laugh.

> >> It occurs to me that I really ought to convert (or re-digitize) them
> The original movies were filmed on 8 mm, so the quality isn't
> all that great to begin with. So if it doesn't get noticeably
> worse on vcd, that may be one way to go.

> The total playing time of everything is only about 30 minutes,
> so encoding with two or three different formats is not out of
> the question. Hopefully at least one would survive.

Aha, I thought it was a whole lot of movies, 30min could definitley be spent
some time with different formats. And I am sure there is some kind of free
evaluationprogram or so that can encode 30 min? I don't know one from the
top of my head though.

> Thanks for your response Tim, it's greatly appreciated.
Well, I have asked 15 questions or so in this ng in during the last couple
of weeks so I think I should start doing some responding :)
The question is why you are askin your question here? Your question is
interesting and of interest to many people so if you asked it in a group
that are even remotley related to filming, video, history or preserving
other old stuf I think you would get a lot more responses. This group is for
issues regarding the Linux operating system

Good luck.

TIm