Image quality is often more about perception than technical specs and the reaction to the Wolverine-digitized movies has been totally positive. I fly drone/quadcopters and it is amazing how often something ships without key components (twice I've gotten empty envelopes from Chinese vendors).īack to the quality: I've worked professionally in digital media since the 80's and I am pleased with the kind of video produced by this $300 machine. It's a pain to deal with that but sadly Chinese-made products suffer from poor quality control and often inferior parts. I'm going to try to remove the melting belt and see if I can find a replacement online and Wolverine needs to find a better quality belt. This is a serious problem unless you like having a tar-like substance gumming up expensive gear. My latest video on the playlist gets into that. My Wolverine is melting! The drive belt is soft, sticky and melting onto the drive pulleys and other parts of the Wolverine. Okay - ONE MORE VERY SERIOUS ISSUE (shouting is intended): Here's the You Tube playlist for those: Wolverine videos Yet another issue is that the machine can't use 7 inch reels: I made an adapter to play them: It's easy to slow the video down in your editing program: slow it to 53 percent for 16 fps film or 60% for 18 fps.Īnother issue is Kodachrome: yellows are really bright: I roll back the color saturation a small amount to clean that up. The Wolverine digitizes at 30fps, which is the NTSC standard and - I understand - is hard-coded into the video chip they use. These were on the Super 8 Technicolor Super 8 Magni-Cartridges: it's a chore getting the film out of those!
I've also digitized a bunch of my wife's family's movies.
I digitized some old movies I've had for years and by selling those films on ebay, I paid for the Wolverine in about a week or two (I link all the ebay listings to the You Tube videos: being able to see the whole movie really makes it so much easier for buyers). Overall I love it: it is highly compressed but when I upload my movies to You Tube and watch them on a 40 inch HDTV they look great. Posted by Robert Hudson (Member # 3996) on April 01, 2017, 09:58 PM:įor just over a monrth now I have been using the Wolverine Reels2Digital MovieMaker to convert Super 8mm and Regular 8mm film to video. This is topic Review Wolverine Reels2Digital MovieMaker 8mm film digitizer in forum 8mm Forum at 8mm Forum. 8mm Forum: Review Wolverine Reels2Digital MovieMaker 8mm film digitizer
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