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Originally Posted by TylerDurden389
Hey everyone. I was at my Uncle's house for Thanksgiving and he showed me 6 reels of Super 8 film (one case said "standard 8") and asked me how they can be converted. I gotta say I got a kick out of seeing this old format in real life. I told him I have no idea how to convert them, but that I'd get the experts opinion and get back to him. They're audio only and it's of my grandparents making music, as well as my mom and uncle singing when they were kids.
I took some pics of the boxes which contained the reels.
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Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving TylerDurdden389!
Sorry to be the one to disappoint you, but that is not Super 8 film. It's Reel-to-Reel Tape. What's that you may ask? It's audio...not video. If you look in the pictures it says "Magnetic Tape". It's like a big audio cassette tape (but often much higher quality).
This should give you good info as to what you should look at to give you better information as to what you have and what you may need to transfer it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel-to...tape_recording
It may be somewhat of a letdown. I think film (video) would have been a more exciting discovery than audio, wouldn't you say? If someone told me what I had was audio....I think I would have felt that way. It may be fun to go through the audio (most likely it's high quality at least). But it's certainly not film; this assumes the outside case reflects what is in side
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I have Reel-to-Reel tapes too.
Hope that helps you out!
Erik
Correction: you wrote, "They're audio only and it's of my grandparents making music, as well as my mom and uncle singing when they were kids." At least you know it's audio then. But, it's certainly not film. Super 8 film and Magnetic Reel-to-Reel tape are just different things completely (although granted they have a similar appearance in some ways)
Your title is misleading, "Converting Super 8 film".
