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Here is Volume 7 of the Genesis Museum 8mm masters project, over 10 years of work and hundreds of reels of film in the making. All of these films I personally held in my hand and took to a film lab for a 100% digital transfer. I am not making these volumes in any particular order, other than they are all in the same format on the disc and have a running time to fill the disc without sacrificing bitrate.
These files are blu-ray formatted. If you have a blu-ray burner, you can burn these as-normal and play them in a blu-ray player. But I also adjusted the indexes for AVCHD, and sized the collections for standard DVD-Rs. All you have to do is burn these files in UDF 2.5 format using a program like Nero or Imgburn (or Toast 11 with HD plug-in) onto a regular DVD-R. This AVCHD will then play in almost all blu-ray players, PS3s, etc. If you don't have a blu-ray player, you can always play these files on your computer. But they will not work in a regular DVD player and converting them will only unnecessarily reduce the quality.
HD offers many advantages over SD, even for tiny 8mm film. Of course, the increased level of detail exposes film grain and damage, but the picture detail is much higher and can use the widescreen HD format. To my eyes, the resolution looks to be about twice SD. In addition, for films or segments that are far away, I can zoom or reduce shaking without reducing image resolution. The only caveat is that most of our 8mm film is in a dark concert hall, which greatly reduces the capability and detail of the film. But in the films I have included in HD for this project, I felt the HD offered a significant improvement. I have done many before and after comparisons and the new detail is obvious to me. |