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I'm pretty sure your Yelco has an electronic speed control Mike, so - like the GS1200 - it can be set exactly to 16.67 fps for ciné transfer.

You won't get an answer Mike. Remember these machines were being sold 5 years before the recipient of your email was born.

Mike, glad to hear you've been inspired. There are drive belt firms around that sell the belt material by the mm. You buy a strip of it, feed it round the drive pulleys and use superglue to butt-fuse the ends together. The glue is so strong that if you pull the belt to destruction it'll break somewh...

For those of you that have an interest in telecine, there are some fascinating pages here on building your own machine out of an old Eumig projector:

http://www.movie2video.com/

You say VHS looked 'very impressive' but a DVD holding your Z5 footage didn't? I'd question the inputs to the projector - is the DVD feeding via HDMI? The projector's menu may well have different settings depending on what inputs are being accessed, and it sounds like your DVD is being shown in the ...

Glad you got there in the end Mike. Yes, the film transfer wouldn't fill the screen but with the technical quality of most old movies that's no bad thing. Also there'd be no overscanning - and this is important as 1) projector gates mask a big chunk of the original frame to avoid frame lines showing...

[quote="Mike Shaw"]What happens though, with those who still have the 4:3 shaped CRT TVs? [/quote]

No worries Mike. The 4:3 film shows perfectly normally on a 4:3 TV screen - it just doesn't fill it, that's all. Best of all there's no overscan - as happens if you do your transfer 4:3.

I'm now very aware that people who send me 4:3 ciné film for transfer will most probably be playing the resulting DVD on a 16:9 TV. Now if I send them a 4:3 transfer their TV will either automatically zoom it to 16:9 (so cropping their film footage) or the TV's remote will be used to stretch it to f...

Billy - have a read of this thread:

http://forums.dvdoctor.net/showthread.p ... +vob+files

Alternatively NLE programs such as Edius allow you to play the DVD and put it in its entirety onto your timeline. From there it can of course be reedited any way you want to.

tom.

When you transfer digital video (copying files from a Compact flash card to your pc, making a copy of a DVD, transferring a MiniDV tape to another tape and so on) you rely on the new medium (HDD, DVD-R blank, MiniDV tape) being in perfect condition. If it's not, then electronic error correction will...

Here's an oddity. You know that you can 'see' the burnt track on a DVD - it doesn't reflect the light so evenly. I have a 40 minute film burnt at 6.5 mbps to a 16x Verbatim DVD-R. Flipping it over I can see that about half the disc has been used up. I then copied this DVD onto exactly the same Verba...

John, you need have no fears in buying a telephoto converter that doesn't have Panasonic engraved on it. I'd go for a name you recognise though. Have a look at the Raynox site: http://raynox.co.jp/english/dcr/dcr1540pro/index.htm as they have a lot of fine lenses, available in different powers, pric...

Hey Ned - my father in law lives in Clare, just down the road. Next time I'm up there I should try and find Cavendish Arts. It would be great to have a chat with Stuart and see what he's doing.

And whatever happened to Stuart Rumens? One of the best writers after Ivan Watson - last I heard he was living in Sudbury, Suffolk.

Laurie - your experience with Visual FX is not uncommon. Always worth googling a company to see what the feedback's like. I did this just now:

http://www.avforums.com/forums/lcd-tele ... ience.html

tom.