Cine to DVD

Thrifty_sister_2

For Christmas I converted 40 year old cine film to DVD by projecting onto the wall and recording with a camcorder.

My parents and siblings were delighted with the chrismas surprise but the quality could have better as the pic kept going in and out of focus.
I assume this is to do with the camcorder readjusting to the changing picture.

Has anyone any Ideas how I can improve on this as I still have loads of tapes to do.

Many thanks fpr any Ideas xx

evilgoose

Are you able to turn off the autofocus on your camcorder. then just manually focus it onto the wall/screen where the projection is. Then aslong as the projected image is in focus your recording should be aswell.

There are companies which can do the transfer for you (as you probably know, its quite expensive). I remember seeing a DIY conversion kit somewhere, but again that wasnt the cheapest of things.