u/JDelta1999

I’ve been getting into preserving media the past few years. I’ve been learning a lot about proper formats for things, aspect ratios, bitrate, interlacing, etc and have done a few projects for friends with DVDs, CDs, and VHS.

But I’ve got a friend who’s been asking to convert a bunch of old 8mm and other types of film reels (he’s a reseller so he comes across a wide variety of stuff) and I’ve been trying to research the best method to do it myself. I think it’s an incredibly useful thing to learn for myself at least and I’ve hit a roadblock.

The easy answer is to ship it off to Legacybox or another similar company. But I want to do it myself. But I’m not sure what the best machine converter would be, and I’m looking for general advice from people who’ve been doing this themselves. What are some things you learned? What machines do you use? Things to avoid? I’m looking to invest so I don’t really mind a higher price point for a high quality machine. Where did you learn all of your skills? Any general pointers would be incredibly useful and helpful. Even if you guys have a YouTube series or want to message etc. It’s one of the last formats I’ve yet to learn.

I’m not sure how many of you are into wrestling but within the past few days, WWE released the New Day and more importantly Xavier Woods, who runs the Up Up Down Down YouTube channel. The channel was bought out by the WWE in 2016/17 and he was allowed to bring WWE stars onto the channel and the WWE would inverse promote the channel itself.

With him getting released, we don’t know yet exactly what’s gonna happen but I imagine there are two scenarios. Either WWE keeps the rights and removes all references to him and rebrands the channel. Or Woods gets to keep it and he’ll have to remove all of the episodes with all of the WWE branding and stars.

The channel itself has close to 4 THOUSAND videos. I’m not posting this as a personal army message but I do believe written in the rules for that one, there is a massive chance a good amount of content is about to privatized forever. I never really had any personal connection to the channel itself but catching onto something like this and telling others is the only way something like this gets archived before it’s too late. So if you ever had any personal affinity for the show, go grab your favorite episodes.

Hey everyone. Just wanted to rant and just have a discussion with anyone who has a similar story to mine so maybe we can pool together to rant or get something done idk. I watch ALOT of movies. And nothing disappoints me more than getting to the tail end of a director or an actor and finding out that a bunch of short films they starred in are all completely lost with no way to access them.

They all debuted at some fuckass film festival 20 years ago and are either gatekept (I know the age old discussion of is it lost if someone has it but has no intention of releasing it but it still exists so blah blah) or they have no idea where it went or that people want it.

Me personally, I went to go look for Pieces (1997) by the Russo Brothers. The poster for it looks hype. I always LOVE watching directors early work to see what it was like. But I found it was a film festival movie with no chance of distribution and no push for it to be released. So now it’s in limbo. I was originally gonna post the movie as “lost” but I’d rather have a discussion about similar experiences. Cause it’s in that limbo of not accessible, no intentions of release, and anything could happen to the film reel rendering it lost forever similar to that Spider-Man vs Kraven the Hunter fan film story.

Got me curious to see who else here has come across films or short films from film festivals and how your searches have gone. Have you guys ever recovered anything? What did you guys come across that’s stuck in limbo or confirmed to be gone?