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Is that really your recorded narration 40 years ago?  You sound the same.

Yes, when I put my audio visuals and my old 8mm film movies into digital I still had my original reel to reel tapes and my Akai tape deck.  Apart from one, my tapes, some going back to the 60s in UK, were in good condition.  Most were Scotch Dynarange. I transferred the tape contents to my pc.  All my analogue material and equipment has now long gone.

Here's something different again.  An 8mm film movie made in 1969 https://vimeo.com/33854096

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How come I have to log in in order to watch Samoa? Not being a member it's not possible, any ideas?

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Albert Ross wrote:

How come I have to log in in order to watch Samoa? Not being a member it's not possible, any ideas?

Here's what I get when I use Eric's link to the Samoa video ... AS you can see I'm not signed into Vimeo .. I do have a 'Free" account at vimeo but I don't sign in to see Eric's video.

Can you post the screen you get? 


https://i.postimg.cc/75mG19k5/Eric-Capture.jpg

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pberk wrote:
Albert Ross wrote:

How come I have to log in in order to watch Samoa? Not being a member it's not possible, any ideas?

Here's what I get when I use Eric's link to the Samoa video ... AS you can see I'm not signed into Vimeo .. I do have a 'Free" account at vimeo but I don't sign in to see Eric's video.

Can you post the screen you get? 


https://i.postimg.cc/75mG19k5/Eric-Capture.jpg



https://i.postimg.cc/t1N9q7Pc/Log-in-to-watch.jpg

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I can watch it with no problem, and I only have a free account.

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Albert Ross wrote:
pberk wrote:
Albert Ross wrote:

How come I have to log in in order to watch Samoa? Not being a member it's not possible, any ideas?

Here's what I get when I use Eric's link to the Samoa video ... AS you can see I'm not signed into Vimeo .. I do have a 'Free" account at vimeo but I don't sign in to see Eric's video.

Can you post the screen you get? 


https://i.postimg.cc/75mG19k5/Eric-Capture.jpg



https://i.postimg.cc/t1N9q7Pc/Log-in-to-watch.jpg

Strange. Vimeo says you don't need an account to watch a video if you have the link and the video is unlisted (meaning not private) .. Try this one of mine.  Can you see it?    https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/11197112

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ericlnz wrote:

Is that really your recorded narration 40 years ago?  You sound the same.

Yes, when I put my audio visuals and my old 8mm film movies into digital I still had my original reel to reel tapes and my Akai tape deck.  Apart from one, my tapes, some going back to the 60s in UK, were in good condition.  Most were Scotch Dynarange. I transferred the tape contents to my pc.  All my analogue material and equipment has now long gone.

Here's something different again.  An 8mm film movie made in 1969 https://vimeo.com/33854096

Outstanding Eric .. Beautiful restoration work .. who could have dreamed of such a thing in 1969?  You've documented a bit of history -- I imagine the men shown in the video have mostly gone to their rest ???

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Albert - try clearing your browser cache as something is screwed up.  Which browser are you using and can you try another one?

259 Reply by GStree (edited by GStree 2022-12-13 10:40:04)

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Eric, I just loved the film as it reminded me of going to the local "flea pit" cinema on a Saturday morning and watching one of the shorts on Movietone News.  Did you do the 8mm to Digi yourself?, as I have thought about buying one of those machines that convert film to Digi frame by frame onto an SD card.
Over the years I have tried various ways (with limited success) to get some of my old 8 and S8mm films  onto Digi before they are lost forever, even projector bulbs are getting harder to find let alone any other parts!

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It's all very odd. I can watch Eric's video of the North Head with no issues, but cannot watch either the video of Samoa or the one of Norton Simon Museum.

I have tried it in Edge as well as FireFox, guess I will try and clear the browser cache as suggest by Eric and see what happens.

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Just a quick update. I have now cleared the cache but still cannot watch Samoa. The strange thing is that I can watch some of Eric's older videos like the one made in 2015 featuring the insects in his back garden, etc., but as for Samoa...

I'll see if I can watch it with my Alexa device.

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Albert Ross wrote:

Just a quick update. I have now cleared the cache but still cannot watch Samoa. The strange thing is that I can watch some of Eric's older videos like the one made in 2015 featuring the insects in his back garden, etc., but as for Samoa...

I'll see if I can watch it with my Alexa device.

Albert .. I may have found the problem.  Eric's video is "unrated" and Vimeo says this: "Selecting a rating is encouraged. If your video is unrated, viewers in certain countries won't be able to access it even if you make it public." 

My Norton Simon video was also unrated.  I just added a rating of "For all audiences". 
Can you see my video now?  https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/11197112

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pberk wrote:
Albert Ross wrote:

Just a quick update. I have now cleared the cache but still cannot watch Samoa. The strange thing is that I can watch some of Eric's older videos like the one made in 2015 featuring the insects in his back garden, etc., but as for Samoa...

I'll see if I can watch it with my Alexa device.

Albert .. I may have found the problem.  Eric's video is "unrated" and Vimeo says this: "Selecting a rating is encouraged. If your video is unrated, viewers in certain countries won't be able to access it even if you make it public." 

My Norton Simon video was also unrated.  I just added a rating of "For all audiences". 
Can you see my video now?  https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/11197112

It seems that you’ve found the solution, Paul. I can’t see Eric’s unrated video, but I can see your Norton Simon video.

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Albert Ross wrote:

Just a quick update. I have now cleared the cache but still cannot watch Samoa. The strange thing is that I can watch some of Eric's older videos like the one made in 2015 featuring the insects in his back garden, etc., but as for Samoa...

I'll see if I can watch it with my Alexa device.

Albert, it does seem very strange as I can simply put in https://vimeo.com/33854096 on Edge or Google
and it goes straight onto it. Perhaps your laptop needs a new mainspring !

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pberk wrote:
Albert Ross wrote:

Just a quick update. I have now cleared the cache but still cannot watch Samoa. The strange thing is that I can watch some of Eric's older videos like the one made in 2015 featuring the insects in his back garden, etc., but as for Samoa...

I'll see if I can watch it with my Alexa device.

Albert .. I may have found the problem.  Eric's video is "unrated" and Vimeo says this: "Selecting a rating is encouraged. If your video is unrated, viewers in certain countries won't be able to access it even if you make it public." 

My Norton Simon video was also unrated.  I just added a rating of "For all audiences". 
Can you see my video now?  https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/11197112

Bingo, I can now watch your video!! Thanks very much for your input, very much appreciated.

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Weird.  I never touch the rating when uploading so have no idea why Samoa is different.  It's been there for seven years.  Anyway I've given it the "All audiences" rating so Albert try it now.

Paul - yes many of the riders will have passed on.  It was 53 years ago!

Gordon - I did my transfers around 16 years ago using the crude method of copying with a digital video camera off a small screen onto which the film was projected. The quality varied from good to barely acceptable depending on the quality of the original.  40 Plus was my first and probably my best.  Shot on a Sankyo 8CM Standard Eight camera purchased secondhand from Wallace Heaton in 1967.

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Here's another film oldie - "Jasons Trip" https://vimeo.com/50749945  Historical as the Camden Town area is now very different.  A few years ago I saw a video taken of the trip in reverse and was amazed at the change but then my film is 53 years old!  I've checked the rating.

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Gordon - I did my transfers around 16 years ago using the crude method of copying with a digital video camera off a small screen onto which the film was projected. The quality varied from good to barely acceptable depending on the quality of the original.  40 Plus was my first and probably my best.  Shot on a Sankyo 8CM Standard Eight camera purchased secondhand from Wallace Heaton in 1967.

Yes that's what I tried with different textures of screen to hold back the highlights. I did find that running the projector at 24 frames and slowing the copy in post helped as well to avoid flickering. I must admit that your copying was very good that's why I asked.
The only projector I still have is an Elmo stereo sound that I bought towards the end of my S8 filming days, and surprisingly I sold a couple of S8 sound cameras to the USA in the last 2 years as there are still some "film anoraks" over there.
Although I used to enjoy editing film back then you didn't get a second chance if you made a balls up along the line somewhere, and I'm sure that todays video makers have no idea what it was like, and of course the price of the film itself!

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Norton Simon Museum 2009 - Thanks Paul.  Very interesting.

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Gordon - I did my transfers around 16 years ago using the crude method of copying with a digital video camera off a small screen onto which the film was projected. The quality varied from good to barely acceptable depending on the quality of the original.

Eric and Gordon .... Eric's transfer method is what I'd call an "optical" transfer to digital.  Remarkable.  I've never seen anyone achieve such high quality with that method. 

I did some transfers like that with mediocre results so I finally bought (about 8 years ago) a "Retroscan Universal" that could do a digital scan frame by frame.  It was expensive, but when I added up the cost of paying someone else to do the job, it seemed worth it.  I had a fair amount of 16mm, Super 8mm and Reg 8mm to transfer.   The hardest thing was doing the 16mm release prints that included sound.   

Here's a small sample of the results off the "Retroscan Universal" .. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/158708010/privacy

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Thanks Paul.  All yours look great.

I did a lot of work with mine on the timeline.  Levels, colour correction, sharpening.  Plus cutting into sections and varying the play speed to match the audio waveforms of the captured film stripe with the audio from my original tapes. At least I had reasonable audio quality.

I chuckle when some try to make old film look like modern digital.  That destroys the atmosphere of film.

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Thanks Paul.  All yours look great.

I did a lot of work with mine on the timeline.  Levels, colour correction, sharpening.  Plus cutting into sections and varying the play speed to match the audio waveforms of the captured film stripe with the audio from my original tapes. At least I had reasonable audio quality.

I chuckle when some try to make old film look like modern digital.  That destroys the atmosphere of film.

I noted in my post how good it was and I did think that it had been done with some sort of film scanner !
Although I do agree to a point regarding the atmosphere of of old films, I find that when they are done with the very best equipment the results are truly amazing, years ago it would have been impossible !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHkc83XA2dY

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Whilst we are getting nostalgic about film here's another old 8mm one "Flipper, Splash & Friends"   https://vimeo.com/781037937

I thought I had it on Vimeo but no and it seems I didn't even have a mp4 version.  So I dug out my original avi and ran it through Handbrake. It's a Dec 1970 visit to Marineland, LA on my way from UK to NZ.  Travelling with an Aunt we stopped off at LA for one or maybe two nights.  It's all I've visited in the US.  I've subsequently passed through twice but only the airport.

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Just spent a happy hour or so going through all of the videos I missed over the last few days! Thanks Eric, Paul and Gordon. It's funny, very few submissions over the last few weeks, and suddenly a whole lot come up in the space of a few days. Great stuff!!

I had a bit of trouble with the last one "Flipper, Splash & Friends". For some reason it just would not play. It started off OK once I altered the quality down to 240, then after about 20 seconds it just gave up. I'll have another go tomorrow, the computer is probably getting a bit tired, at one stage it actually told me that it had "encountered a problem" and had to be restarted.

Such is the joy of computers in the 21st century, can't live with them, can't live without them.

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I had a bit of trouble with the last one "Flipper, Splash & Friends"

It's probably unrelated but I've just noticed a "." at the end of the link which I've now removed.  I also had a difficult pc yesterday (my time) with nothing responding.  The usual problem - windows performing an update.

I've several friends who live without computers although some don't really.  They just don't realise that surfing the net on their phones is actually the phone being a "computer".  My London based brother doesn't believe in computers.  Not being able to email him is a nuisance.