Review on Wolverine Converter Scanner Convert Scanning by Brandon Mcvey

So far this machine has worked very well for me. My father-in-law asked me to digitize some of his father's old 8mm film. After realizing how much it would cost to send them to have it done professionally, I decided to try it myself. I started out trying to use his old projector to play a movie by pointing a digital camera at the screen to record. It didn't work that well and I quickly realized it wasn't worth the disappointment. I noticed this product a few months ago, but was put off by the fact that it only holds rolls 5 inches or less. of the coils I had to convert were larger than this. But later reviewers commented that they figured out how to make it work with kick drums, so I decided to give it a try. As other reviewers have covered some of the things you need to deal with such as: B. High frame rate recording (after that I use the free VLC software to slow down video files from 30 fps to 18 fps), I think I'll share with you how I used it to get 6" and 7" "-to digitize coils. The photo I'm posting shows this better than I can describe, but I just installed an old projector to the right of the unit, facing the projector, and a large empty take-up spool is slipping onto the lower arm (as a whether you would play a movie with the projector itself) e) I put the empty 5 inch spool that came with the device on its left side and leave the right side empty. Then I feed the film over the digitizer, around the empty 5" spool and into the digitizer. When the film comes out of the digitizer, it is taken up by the projector's take-up spool. I just start the projector (without light). ) at the same time as digitizers. Works like a charm although it takes a good 4 hours to watch a reel. I know this requires the right hardware, but hopefully this helps anyone else trying to figure out what to do. A few other notes: A fairly recent firmware update added the ability to customize the frame you're capturing, which is pretty nice. You can move it left/right, up/down, and zoom in/out. The initial settings actually worked pretty well for me, but eventually I started playing with them without writing down the initial settings in case I needed to go back to them. There is an option in the menu to reset the device to default settings, so I figured I could just use that if needed. Well, it turns out resetting to default only works for things like exposure, not image adjustments. I called tech support to ask about the initial settings but the guy just laughed at me a few times and said he didn't know. I find it funny that I assumed the default settings option would include frame setup settings. I didn't mind that they didn't have (or weren't aware of) default settings, but the laughter was just an odd reaction from the customer. Anyway, the settings are easy to understand and it's a very useful option, but be aware that there are no default settings. However, overall it was great. With so many films I have had to convert (now I have a 48 roll) it would never do without them. And my FIL recently let me know that he's planning to bring back some Super8 reels that he got when my wife was little, so I'm looking forward to that too. I think I'll be just as happy with how this machine handles those movies, but if not I'll come back and update this review.