Thank you is not enough to say. My sister and I are using the Wolverine Moviemaker to digitize our dear moms 8mm movies our grandfather took of her from 1937. We could not have done it without your detailed instructions. Incredible to see our grandfather Stu capture all these great memories of our mom. We are looking forward to the Super8 movies our dear dad took of his time in Vietnam and our travels of the world. You are truly a treasure of the invaluable information Thank you helping us preserve our families memories.
Thank you for taking the time to do this video. I really appreciate it. I am trying to decide whether to but a Wolverine or similar to convert 50 year old films. Your video helps regarding the process and output. You are right, the original 8mm wasn’t the greatest format.
I had the more 'consumer' version of this and it did a reasonable job but the 'Pro' version you have is much better. These are often sold under different brands but essentially they are all the same thing. Great tutorial, thanks for sharing.
I saw a video showing to NOT zoom with the Wolverine and do the crop later in post editing. This makes a huge difference. The video with the digital zoom of the converter is riddled with compression artifacts. The video with no zoom is virtually artifact free.
Just recently started to scan in some old reels from the 60s and 70s and the quality is pretty good even for standard 8mm especially for the age, being a pretty low res film and being stored in an attic where the temps fluctuate a lot. The only issue I have is the camera that scans the film may not be perfectly focused from the factory and for some reels this resulted in some pretty blurry scenes but some reels were fine. Some others online have had similar issues going back a few years so they've never bothered to correct this unfortunately, what fixed it for me and others was to take the scanner apart by removing the screws on the back, remove tiny screws holding the plastic LCD housing on the front and from there you should see a little cog wheel attached to the camera which you can turn to adjust the focus and this made a vast improvement to some reels that were blurry. Problem is I sometimes have to ever so slightly tweak the focus from reel to reel to get the best image which is a little more work but that's fine, had to cutout a hole so I could freely adjust the focus once the unit was back together with my fingers, if I see the image in a scene is out of focus slightly I can now pause, focus and start again which works great and as its frame by frame its not even noticeable on normal playback if I catch it quick enough. if they never built in an auto focus the least they could have done is have a cutout so you can manually do it. It really is expensive for what the internals are which is pretty much a motor and a tiny motherboard that's about the size of a playing card, but as it is a very niche market you can understand the price. Just nice to be able to scan the film with very little effort, as long as it doesn't get jammed by poor splices its pretty much run the scanner and wait, overall though its a pretty good scanner which I would certainly purchase again given the choice, just wish they would do a better job with the focusing.
Yes. Generally, you can take the SD card, plug it into a USB reader, and plug that into a smart TV and it will recognize it as a USB drive. Otherwise, you can import them to your computer and copy them onto a thumb drive.
Is there any option to just save the individual frames and assemble them afterward in another piece of software? This should help with the artefacting, something I came here trying to see if was in your review.
I paid bit more for a Kodak reels but i was looking at this model as well but i like the larger screen . in Canada but consider it is a niche market and why they are expensive. My father filming goes going back to the 50's. It was considered to be pricy hobby back then and out of reach for most people. I remember anything around photographs was a expensive hobby and i had my own dark room too . My father tried to transfer super 8 to a camcorder video 8 back in the days and it looked horrible but he send me videos on VHS. So many years later he passed away and i have the originals and spent time passing them through. I say it did an amazing job for the price in all consideration and i saved tons of money then sending it out. Just in time the film was degrading the splicing glues was done so had sections come apart but it was easy with these machines to get back on track. But now lets look at you get a rough copy digitize keep that separate but soon we are going to see AI do a huge clean up. I am doing this for my kids and family this way they wont have to do it in the future or ai tech will improve so much , but yeah 65 years worth of film does fall apart but photo quality surprising not so bad .
We tried transferring to VHS years ago as well. We couldn't get the shutters to sync. It looked terrible. I debated between the Wolverine and the Kodak. Other than screen size, I think the specs are similar.
@VintageElectronicsChannel I should have said it turns off. I can't keep the alignment adjusted. I line it up, and it goes great for a few minutes, then starts missing, then shuts off. I don't feel like they are connected. I think I just need a new one and a better one.
New subscriber, enjoyed the video. I have the older Wolverine Moviemaker which scanned the movie film (regardless of type) at 30 frames per second, I wound up correcting the frame rate in Adobe Premiere Elements for Super 8 and regular 8, not a big deal. Does the Moviemaker Pro automatically do this for each type of film?
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has hacked this so it produces a folder of individual, uncompressed images instead of a video vile with dodgy compression. That would make it a lot easier to clean and enhance prior to creating a video.
Thank you is not enough to say. My sister and I are using the Wolverine Moviemaker to digitize our dear moms 8mm movies our grandfather took of her from 1937. We could not have done it without your detailed instructions. Incredible to see our grandfather Stu capture all these great memories of our mom. We are looking forward to the Super8 movies our dear dad took of his time in Vietnam and our travels of the world. You are truly a treasure of the invaluable information Thank you helping us preserve our families memories.
Thank you for the kind words. I'm happy to have been able to help. Being able to save those treasured memories is so important.
Thank you for taking the time to do this video. I really appreciate it. I am trying to decide whether to but a Wolverine or similar to convert 50 year old films. Your video helps regarding the process and output. You are right, the original 8mm wasn’t the greatest format.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
I had the more 'consumer' version of this and it did a reasonable job but the 'Pro' version you have is much better. These are often sold under different brands but essentially they are all the same thing. Great tutorial, thanks for sharing.
Happy to help!
I saw a video showing to NOT zoom with the Wolverine and do the crop later in post editing. This makes a huge difference. The video with the digital zoom of the converter is riddled with compression artifacts. The video with no zoom is virtually artifact free.
Good point. I'm going to have to try that.
Just recently started to scan in some old reels from the 60s and 70s and the quality is pretty good even for standard 8mm especially for the age, being a pretty low res film and being stored in an attic where the temps fluctuate a lot. The only issue I have is the camera that scans the film may not be perfectly focused from the factory and for some reels this resulted in some pretty blurry scenes but some reels were fine. Some others online have had similar issues going back a few years so they've never bothered to correct this unfortunately, what fixed it for me and others was to take the scanner apart by removing the screws on the back, remove tiny screws holding the plastic LCD housing on the front and from there you should see a little cog wheel attached to the camera which you can turn to adjust the focus and this made a vast improvement to some reels that were blurry.
Problem is I sometimes have to ever so slightly tweak the focus from reel to reel to get the best image which is a little more work but that's fine, had to cutout a hole so I could freely adjust the focus once the unit was back together with my fingers, if I see the image in a scene is out of focus slightly I can now pause, focus and start again which works great and as its frame by frame its not even noticeable on normal playback if I catch it quick enough. if they never built in an auto focus the least they could have done is have a cutout so you can manually do it. It really is expensive for what the internals are which is pretty much a motor and a tiny motherboard that's about the size of a playing card, but as it is a very niche market you can understand the price. Just nice to be able to scan the film with very little effort, as long as it doesn't get jammed by poor splices its pretty much run the scanner and wait, overall though its a pretty good scanner which I would certainly purchase again given the choice, just wish they would do a better job with the focusing.
Great Overiview. Thank you!
Are you able to view the finished product on tv screens -- and if so, how do you accomplish that?? Sorry for being a little green in this area!
It saves them onto an SD card, so you can put them on a USB drive and watch them on a smart TV, or burn them to DVD or Blu-ray.
@@VintageElectronicsChannel Thanks -- so would I need a usb card reader to accomplish that?
@@VintageElectronicsChannel Sorrry-- I meant to ask if that requires an sd card reader
Yes. Generally, you can take the SD card, plug it into a USB reader, and plug that into a smart TV and it will recognize it as a USB drive. Otherwise, you can import them to your computer and copy them onto a thumb drive.
Is there any option to just save the individual frames and assemble them afterward in another piece of software? This should help with the artefacting, something I came here trying to see if was in your review.
I wasn't able to find any way to do that in the unit.
Haha, gotta ask, is that little kid you in the film? 😄
It is!
I paid bit more for a Kodak reels but i was looking at this model as well but i like the larger screen . in Canada but consider it is a niche market and why they are expensive. My father filming goes going back to the 50's. It was considered to be pricy hobby back then and out of reach for most people. I remember anything around photographs was a expensive hobby and i had my own dark room too . My father tried to transfer super 8 to a camcorder video 8 back in the days and it looked horrible but he send me videos on VHS. So many years later he passed away and i have the originals and spent time passing them through. I say it did an amazing job for the price in all consideration and i saved tons of money then sending it out. Just in time the film was degrading the splicing glues was done so had sections come apart but it was easy with these machines to get back on track. But now lets look at you get a rough copy digitize keep that separate but soon we are going to see AI do a huge clean up. I am doing this for my kids and family this way they wont have to do it in the future or ai tech will improve so much , but yeah 65 years worth of film does fall apart but photo quality surprising not so bad .
We tried transferring to VHS years ago as well. We couldn't get the shutters to sync. It looked terrible. I debated between the Wolverine and the Kodak. Other than screen size, I think the specs are similar.
Neat device, thx for video
Thanks for watching!
I'm having a problem with mine it keeps stopping. No noise it just stops. I am trying to do a friends 9 inch reel. any ideas.
Nothing that springs to mind right away, but you might check to be sure the reel isn't binding up and/or the memory card you're using isn't full.
@VintageElectronicsChannel I should have said it turns off. I can't keep the alignment adjusted. I line it up, and it goes great for a few minutes, then starts missing, then shuts off. I don't feel like they are connected. I think I just need a new one and a better one.
New subscriber, enjoyed the video. I have the older Wolverine Moviemaker which scanned the movie film (regardless of type) at 30 frames per second, I wound up correcting the frame rate in Adobe Premiere Elements for Super 8 and regular 8, not a big deal. Does the Moviemaker Pro automatically do this for each type of film?
Thanks for watching and subscribing! The Pro doesn't do any type of frame rate correction.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has hacked this so it produces a folder of individual, uncompressed images instead of a video vile with dodgy compression. That would make it a lot easier to clean and enhance prior to creating a video.
I agree. Surely someone has figured that out. The compression kills the end result, and there's no good way of fixing it.