Elmo Trans Video Super 8 Sound Movie Film Transfer Machine Equipment Demo by Got Memories TRV-S8

Elmo Trans Video Super 8 Sound TRV-S8  super eight sound transfer machine which is extremely rare and hard to find. In this video I’m going to show you a brief overview of the equipment and the audio coming through it most film transfer machines especially the ones that you get off Amazon, the Wolverine for example cannot transfer sound most film transfer companies do not transfer super 8 sound either because equipment is very rare. Parts are in short supply and also people that can repair them. Super 8 sound is about 1% of film out there and was produced from December 1973 onwards. Most companies don’t either invest or transfer sound correctly using the correct equipment because it’s such a small portion of the market and it’s not worth the time to invest. Popular companies like legacy box, south tree, Kodak digitizing services all do not transfer sound, but they will take your money and transfer your film silent with zero notifications to let you know and they do not offer refunds either.

Some companies transfer super 8 sound but they are doing a two pass transfer so they capture the video portion first and then the audio separately and then they do their best to try and sync it together which is near impossible so what you end up with is out of sync video/audio.

Also, some companies are filming off the wall with a projector and a piece of paper and a camcorder and speeding up to 20 frames per second to eliminate flicker from the difference in the shutter rates and you get audio that sounds like the chipmunks, because the speed is increased.

If you’d your super 8 sound movie film digitized by Got Memories, you can go to gotmemories.com and click on get a quote and can send you a quote from there just be warned it is not cheap to digitize because as mentioned the equipment is rare, parts of rare and I have one repair guy in the country that can fix these machines and he’s not cheap either! Http://www.gotmemories.com
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