8mm Home Movies from the 60s

Report · Jun 04, 2020

I'm trying to edit a home movie from the late 1960s my father shot. It's mostly lights and darks and not many middle values, so it loses a bit of detail.

Has anyone dealt with these types of movies before? Just trying to "clean" it up a little and make it more professional-looking.

Thanks!

still from film

Report · Jun 05, 2020

I don't personally have any experience with it. I know it's a bit of a niche thing and there are definitely some people out there that would have experience with it - I'm kind of just bumping this so that maybe some more eyes will land on it. If you're reddit-savvy you could also try posting to the Premiere/Editors/Video Editing subreddits there.

Report · Jun 05, 2020

I would need to be able to see the Waveform (YC no chroma mode), Parade in RGB, and the Vectorscope YUV before commenting much, maybe a histogram (not something I tend to use a lot in video but at times useful). I'd want to see exactly what data was where before even starting to work the image. You may not have a lot of information to work with which gets awfully frustrating.

Sometimes people that really know this, and have the exact proper gear and techniques, can get more than you'd expect as far as scanning the original image for film-based jobs. And sometimes ... it's all you can get already.

Neil