8mm Forum: Re-recording

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Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on June 09, 2019, 02:36 AM:

This is a subject that for forty years i have steered well clear of apart from some very basic stuff in the early days with a cassette player. I know the Elmo ST1200HD isn't ideal for recording, (but they are still my number one machine), but now i have a Bauer T610 i was thinking later on of having a little go but only with a very short subject, possibly my Bowie/Jagger music video. I dont want to use the machine too much for this purpose as i am aware of the stress this puts on any machine if you have to start/stop/reverse all the time.

My question is this, while the instructions for recording are all within the booklet, could someone tell me as a complete recording beginner, what equipment do i need for this bearing in mind i have nothing other than a PC [Wink]

Posted by Mike Spice (Member # 5957) on June 09, 2019, 05:37 AM:

Depends on a number of things.
Your computer will have a stereo line out but will you record stereo on the film stripes?
Chances are I would guess you would record to a single stripe in mono, in which case you need a lead from your stereo line out on the computer, probably a 3.5mm stereo jack to what ever the input connector on your projector is.

What input sockets does your projector have?

Assuming it has a stereo input, is it able to take a stereo signal and collapse it to mono to record on a single stripe?

If so, you likely just need a 3.5mm to 3.5mm lead wired for stereo. (signified by jack plugs with three connections on them rather than just the mono tip and earth connection.

you have a number of options, you could just play music from the pc to the recording on the projector, or you could use software like Audacity and create a mix of some kind and then play that to the projector to record.

[ June 09, 2019, 07:23 AM: Message edited by: Mike Spice ]

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on June 09, 2019, 09:26 AM:

Thanks Mike, a good start for information,

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