{"id":3175,"date":"2011-01-10T18:52:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2011-01-10T18:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:52:41","slug":"from-8-mm-film-to-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/from-8-mm-film-to-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"From 8 mm film to YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

My maternal grandfather, Otto Nielsen, was a keen photographer, and he also recorded the family on 8 mm film from 1973 till around 1978, when he had to stop due to illness.<\/p>\n

As an example, here is a brief recording from my first birthday (which is quite appropriate, given that my youngest daughter will be one tomorrow):<\/p>\n

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However, going from the original film strip to YouTube has not been all that straightforward.<\/p>\n

After his death, his 8 mm films were lying around in a drawer in my grandmother’s flat, mixed up with some films he must have bought at some point.<\/p>\n

After quite a few years, my grandmother finally got round to viewing them all with a view to throwing away the ones he hadn’t made himself, and she took the remaining ones up to a shop where they converted them to VHS, added some easy-listening music and discarded the original films.<\/p>\n

This week I then bought a kit<\/a>\"\" to connect our VHS recorder to my Windows 7 computer, which creates an MPEG file.<\/p>\n

I then loaded this file into iMovie on my Mac (which was a bit tricky, because iMovie won’t admit that it likes MPEG, so I had to create a MP_ROOT folder at the root level of my USB key and create a folder called “101PNV01” inside this folder and put my MPEG files inside this [thanks<\/a>!]).<\/p>\n

From then on, it was easy – iMovie is great for editing films and putting them onto YouTube.<\/p>\n

My only remaining problem is what to do about a church service starring my mum which was broadcast back in 1982: I have it on VHS, too, but the video capture software on my PC claims it’s copy-protected and stops after five seconds. \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My maternal grandfather, Otto Nielsen, was a keen photographer, and he also recorded the family on 8 mm film from 1973 till around 1978, when he had to stop due to illness. As an example, here is a brief recording from my first birthday (which is quite appropriate, given that my youngest daughter will be one tomorrow): However, going from the original film strip to YouTube has not been all that straightforward. After his death, his 8 mm films were lying around in a drawer in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,104,114,119,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-family","category-computing","category-media","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}