<p>We have most of the significant occasions in our children’s lives on about thirty 8 mm video cartridges. I would love to have them put on DVDs so we can have a set and we can give each of our daughters a set. They would be much easier to watch on DVD and we might actually pull them out and look at them if they were in that format. Has anyone had their 8 mm videos transferred to DVDs? Did you use a certain company or how did you get it done? Were you happy with the final product?
Any information would be appreciated!</p>
<p>I work at costco, we send them out to a company called yesvideo. Pretty good quality and takes about 2-3 weeks.</p>
<p>My father recently had 8mm videos of the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics transferred to DVD at Costco, as matter of fact. He seemed happy with the process and the quality.</p>
<p>Thanks so much Mikey and emgamac! Anyone else use any source other than Costco?</p>
<p>If you got to yesvideo.com you will find a list of retailers including Walmart and Ritz photo studios. You can just enter your zip code and it will tell you which stores in your area do this. I just saw the info from Mikeyru’s post and went over there…am delighted to have found this place so thank you for your post!</p>
<p>Any idea the range of prices Costco charges to transfer to DVD???</p>
<p>abasket - here you go:</p>
<p>[Costco</a> Wholesale 1-Hour Photo Counter - Services & Pricing](<a href=“Home Video & Photo Transfer | Costco Photo Center”>Home Video & Photo Transfer | Costco Photo Center)</p>
<p>Price depends on how many feet of film you have. We just found our 16-mm movies and we’ll be taking them to our local Costco.</p>
<p>Thanks! We have the Hi8 tapes - will have to check them out to see what we can put together - unfortunately we did a bad job when taping and just taped a bunch of events on one tape - no real organization with them. :(</p>
<p>I recently did this myself, and it was much easier than I expected. If you have a digital video camero with a pass through feature, it will digitize the videos for you and they can be captured on your computer. I hook up VCR to video camera using audio/video cables (the red/white/yellow ones), then hook the camera to my laptop with a IEEE 1394 cable. I use Videowave as my video capture software but you could also use Windows MovieMaker. Hit capture and then play. You then have to produce you movie, so you can burn it to DVD, but this is a simple process. You can also do some simple editing, add titles, etc. if you want. It was far easier than I expected. The only annoying part was that it takes the full play time. You can’t speed it up, but you can watch TV while it’s recording.</p>
<p>Good to hear that it was easy to do, tango14! This is on my to do list. I checked into having a local company transfer the HI8 tapes to DVD for me, but it was incredibly expensive. I will bookmark this thread and will hopefully (fingers crossed) begin my project this summer.</p>
<p>Years ago we had a local company transfer my husband’s old 8mm movies to VHS tapes and gave one to each of his 5 siblings and to his parents. It was expensive back then, but they all seemed to be quite happy with the results!</p>
<p>There is a site called Homemovies.com that I’m pretty sure will let you edit and customize your home movies online before putting them on dvd. The problem is that I could never figure out how to do the editing as there were some compatibility issues with our browser at the time. Should retry again now that we have a Mac.</p>
<p>Like tango14, I made the conversion (VHS –> DVD) myself. If you don’t have a digital video camera that will make the analog to digital conversion for you, there are converters that you can buy (about $100 last I checked, probably less now).</p>
<p>I liked the ability to do some editing. I cut things down a bit…for instance, 20 minutes of oldest D going down the slide gets boring, but make that 3 minutes and it’s cute. </p>
<p>One trick I learned was to get everything ready in the evening, then let the computer run overnight to “render” and burn the DVD. On my system, that whole process seemed to take 2 or 3 times the length of the DVD.</p>
<p>Thanks for starting this thread - so timely for me! D wants to use some old VHS footage in a video for school, which I presume she will create on her Mac.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve got time to figure out how to do it myself, so I guess I have a couple of questions: 1) if I take the tapes to Costco, how long does it take to get the DVD back? and 2) once the footage is on the DVD, will she be able to copy or edit it?</p>
<p>(and I realize that “footage” is an anachronism - what is the right word?)</p>