Transferring 8mm video to ???

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Throw 'em up in The Cloud

 

Make a private YouTube channel, use DropBox or Flickr/SmugMug, any number of possibilities. 

 

Alternatively, use USB flash drives.  The price per GB keeps dropping every day.

 

With optical drives vanishing from new PCs, DVDs are approaching the same state as ZIP discs when Iomega went belly-up.
 
 

 

Why not continue with DVD's?

 

I have a feeling they (players) are going to be around a while and DVD's don't degrade like other media.  Sure you can put them on a memory card / chip / drive or hard drive, but those can (and have) fail as time passes.
 
I still burn stuff on DVD's for archiving. Cheap and reliable and won't be going anywhere soon. Yes Apple has tried to kill off optical drives but one can buy an external USD DVD drive for ~$25 and you will have at least a decade with that.

When you burn the video onto the DVD is it in a TV DVD readable format? You could store them as raw video files too but seems like making it DVD player readable might make them easier to share.
 
DVD's don't last

If you read the writable dvd package inserts the manufacturers do not advise using writable dvd's for archival purposes. This type of dvd will break down over time and will become unreadable. More susceptible if light is allowed to come in contact over time. At some point in the future (some say as little as 10 years) consumer writable dvd's become unreadable or fail. Many a debate out there to read about on this subject. Just my 2 cents. I use external hard drives or thumb drives, and only plug them in to the pc as needed. I don't leave them up and running all the time.
 
We finally retired our home PC and have both moved to Laptops, so we still have central storage and somewhere for our scanner to store files, I bought a Synoptics two disk NAS for on premise storage.

The Disks are Mirrored in a Raid array so there is redundancy, but I also have the NAS configured to synchronise with my Onedrive account as well.

We buy an Office 365 subscription for $120 a year, which includes 5 users with 1 TB of Storage each. This way I have a local copy thats quick to access and easy for my non technological other half to interact with, plus there is an online copy.

From Onedrive, you can then share the files with friends and family.

Cheers

Nathan
 
Indeed everything has a lifespan. And yes the "archival" discs probably last longer then a DVD-R... but how long do you need a format to last?

I seriously doubt that a DVD-R stored at reasonable temperatures won't last decades. Some estimate burned media expected lifespans in the 20-100 year range. NIST did an accelerated aging study and they concluded 30 years was likely.
 
Maybe the recorded DVDs can be stored in a DARK,cool area.That may help-not exposed to light.For now just keep my pictures and videos on the SD cards from the camera.My devices can "play" the cards esp if your computer has a built in player or you can get an add on one from just about anyplace these days.I can even connect any of my camers to my Samsung UHD TV and have a GREAT,fun slideshow!!Kinda like the old days!But no projector or screen.I do have a projector and screen for slides that wwere taken by family in the old days-just leave them as they are!!!Just store them in a cool,dark area.
 
Hmmm. How long to last?

Interesting question. How long would I want these recordings to last?
I am going to be a bit weird here - but why not? We're among friends.
I suppose I would want the recordings to last until I die or until a better format comes along.
Whichever comes first, LOL.
Lifespans are changing. The chances of living past 100 are getting greater every day.
The DVD player, or the format will not likely exist in 50 years.
(Yeah, yeah I know vinyl lasted way past 50 years but let's get real..)
I appreciate the NIST reference. I follow them and totally trust their conclusions. I did not know they studied this recording format.
Therefore I will probably record the most important things on two formats. I'll do DVDs for some and perhaps memory sticks for others. That'll at least "stabilize" the recordings for now and then when some new format comes along I'll perhaps transfer again.
I won't cry in my soup if all recordings are lost tomorrow. However I'd like to try to keep some memories alive as long as I can enjoy them.
 
Paul- How did you complete the original conversion? Did you do it yourself? Pay a service? I ask because we have some 8mm and Rich shudders at the thought of handing them over to someone to convert lest they accidentally ruin the originals.

Chuck
 
Originally I did them myself.

I started conversions using a "Lite-On" branded DVD recorder that I bought inexpensively from COSTCO.
Attached it to my camcorder and did the recordings manually. Worked out really well.
Conversely, my sister took our 8mm FILM to someone to have them converted to DVD. That worked out well too. However, she got referrals from others who used the same person. It was very professional and she got all the materials back quickly.

Also, I totally agree that one must save all original recordings. And IF I were to send stuff out, I'd do so in batches just in case something goes wrong.
 
What Rex (Tolivac) said. Keep the originals!

If you have them professionally transferred, DO NOT mail them away somewhere, but rather have them done locally, where you can take them and pick them up in person.

Even the big studios such as Warner and Universal make new archival prints on film after doing digital restorations. Black and white movie film is quite stable if stored at the proper temperature and humidity. Technicolor masters are 3 separate strips of B&W film. The original Technicolor process (dye imbibition) prints are also pretty stable; Eastmancolor however is not.
 

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