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<p><font face="Calibri">Funny. Back in the 80's I worked at a place
that converted S-8mm film (and other film formats) to VHS tape.
I saw the care they took most of the time and was on the
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sense to do it yourself, unless you feel the condition of the
tape is too delicate to handle yourself (like the oxide is
falling off the acetate). I had about 50 tapes to transfer, so I
bought a ClearClick Video2Digital Converter 2.0 and borrowed an
S-VHS semi-pro deck from my local public access TV station (they
don't use them anymore -- was just in storage) and recorded the
tapes onto thumb drives, which I then moved to my internal HD
for editing and clipping. The quality of the video generated by
the ClearClick is pretty good, all things considered, and it was
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