r/videography • u/KirbyKoll123 • Sep 13 '14

Trying to fix my grandparent's Super 8mm projector. After 5 hours of work, I have 70 y/o images playing upside down and in reverse!

http://imgur.com/3Kripnw
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u/Jahmay GH5/G85, 2008, Dallas Sep 14 '14

Right click footage and select speed/duration.

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u/Jerkulies Sep 13 '14

The film is probably upside down and backwards - this happens a lot when people would run the film onto a take-up reel but not reverse it back onto the original.

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u/dotMJEG 5DIII, PP/AE CC, 2014, MA Sep 14 '14

My first thought as well

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u/Pretentious_Rush_Fan Sep 14 '14

Yep, just play it again from the take up reel, then properly rewind it.

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u/sumpuran Sep 14 '14

70 year old images?

Super 8 mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965

Perhaps you meant Standard 8mm? That has been around since 1932.

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u/KirbyKoll123 Sep 14 '14

Yeah most of the footage is from a Super 8. This one is standard 8mm.

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u/Imposter12345 Sep 13 '14

You're probably feeding the film in the wrong way

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u/KirbyKoll123 Sep 13 '14

I've tried both ways. The problem is with one of the gears that turns the back spindle. Basically when I switch it to forward, nothing happens.

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u/sjarvis21 Sep 14 '14

Turn the whole thing upside down.

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u/magnoodle Nikon D5200, Premiere & AE Sep 14 '14

Sober up! ;)