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Tom Photiou
Film God

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From: Plymouth U.K
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posted September 13, 2005 11:16 AM

Transfering from super 8mm to DVD, (or video) is relativly straight forward but here is a problem i wonder if anyone can help with.
1/ How do u mute sound for silent films. i.e, i dont want to pick up any sound of the projector running or anything going on around.
2 / for sound films the same again but i only want to get the sound of the film, how should i connect for audio? [Frown]

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Jim Schrader
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Savage, MN, USA
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posted September 13, 2005 11:53 AM

Hi Tom there is a thread on this topic under the 8mm fourm titled "Copying cine film" hope this helps

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Steven Sigel
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Massachusetts
Registered: Jun 2003

posted September 13, 2005 03:04 PM

Tom --

I'm not sure I understand -- if you are using direct input of the sound from the projector into the DVD recorder - then just don't plug anything into the audio input jacks - you'll get silence. If you are using a microphone (bad idea for sound films too), just unplug it to get silence... Am I missing something???

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Tom Photiou
Film God

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From: Plymouth U.K
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posted September 14, 2005 01:25 PM

Steve i may not have explained my self to well.
I use a small canon DV cam corder. I set the projector up pointing to the little cine to video transfer box with the cam corder looking into the appropriate glass. I.E .picture is ready to project all i have to do is press rec on the camera to start getting the picture.
Its how i can cut off the sound recording of the cam,(which i dont think i can do) or for sound films i'm trying to work the best way to conn the Elmo's aux out to the cam corder>
maybe theres an easier way. (i' m getting to the point where i think it may be easier to just get them done by a pro. [Confused]

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Steven Sigel
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Massachusetts
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posted September 14, 2005 01:40 PM

If the camera has an Aux input, just plug a cable into it (not connected to anything else)... That should disable the microphone. Or if that doesn't work, there will be a setting in the camera to take the sound from the aux input rather than the mic...

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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

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From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

posted September 14, 2005 08:13 PM

If you can't disable the camera's microphone and/or connect your projector's line-out to the camcorder... how about this: Just go ahead and transfer the film to your computer... then, using whatever video editing software you have, remove the sound part and replace it with an audio recording taken directly from the projector (meaning, you capture the film, then run the projector a second time and capture just the audio using your PC's sound card). This shouldn't cause too much problems with the picture and sound running out of sync in your finished video file, either... a bit complicated, I know, but it's one way to do it if all else fails. [Smile]

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Tom Photiou
Film God

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From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003

posted September 15, 2005 11:26 AM

thanks men, i'll try these suggestions. [Wink]

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