Wolverine 8mm and Super8 Reels Movie Digitizer with 2.4" LCD, Black (Film2Digital MovieMaker)
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Product Specifications
- A fully automated apparatus to digitize 8 and Super 8 Movie Reels FramebyFrame digitizing for highquality digital conversion
- 8mm or super 8 media must be mounted in with proper reelup to 5 in diameter and adapter before recordingrewinding
- FramebyFrame digitizing for highquality digital conversion Converts 8 and Super 8 movies into MPEG4 MP4 digital movie files at 720P 30 fps
- Scans and directly saves digital movies into SDSDHC cards 32GB max not included
- Playback to TVs using the included TV Cable Compatible with all Windows Mac and Linux Operating Systems Note Do not drop or handle too aggressively as it may cause damage to the device
NOTE: Check Instruction video before use
Product Description
Your old reel-to-reel 8mm and Super 8 films are degrading. Worse, the memories are fading and the film is becoming more brittle just sitting in the box. Convert your Film into digital now before the memories are lost forever! Introducing the Wolverine Reels2Digital Moviemaker. A very simple to use device that will convert your movie reels into digital movies (no sound) with few strokes. Works like a typical projector where you mount the 3 inch or 5 inch reel, insert a memory card, press few buttons and the apparatus will play the film and scan frame-by-frame to create a digital MP4 movie file that you can play on any computer, you can edit, upload to the internet or burn to DVD’s. The Wolverine Reels2Digital Moviemaker pays for itself taking into consideration that photo Labs are charging more than a dollar to digitize a single foot of film!
Product Reviews
Nice for Price
This is a nice product for the price. I have hundreds of old 8 and super 8mm films that I haven’t been able to view in many years. Sending them out for conversion is so expensive. I’ve been very happy with the results I’ve been able to get with the Wolverine MovieMaker. My first unit only lasted for a day before the light went out. I contacted the manufacturer about getting a replacement bulb and was told it was an LED and should last years. They replaced my unit and the new one has worked well for several days and 20+ film transfers of 50 to 200’ each. One issue I discovered is that the film supply reel often spins forward on a frame advance and then, when the slack is taken up, it snaps forward again. The result of this on the transfer is a jumpy video. My guess is, each time the slack goes away and the reel pulls again, it causes the film to register in a different position. I came up with an easy fix. I just folded a piece of card stock and put it between the supply reel and the device. It creates a little tension that prevents the film from spooling out too fast. Wolverine, if you’re reading this, some sort of tension on the supply spindle would be a cleaner fix than my solution.
By all means, buy this
If you have a stack of old 8mm home movies gathering dust, do not hesitate in purchasing this item. It’s a pretty good deal. I had a few issues with it, reflected in my 3-star rating, but none were deal breakers.My old home movies, and I have a ton of them, are joined together with splicing tape. These splices often got caught in the sharp S-curve between the film gate and the take-up reel. This means that, for long movies, you can’t leave the unit unattended, else you’ll end up with long passages of one frame. I found that you can bypass the S-curve, and the film captures smoothly.This unit captures at about two frames per second, so be prepared to babysit with it for extended periods of time.The unit captures at a 4:3 aspect ratio, but when I imported the video to iMovie, it stretched to 16:9, with no way to adjust i backt. I had to pre-process the video in order to preserve the aspect ratio.The unit wants to play back video at 30 frames per second, which is way, way too fast. In iMovie I could adjust the speed to 60%, and this worked out well.
Simple to use, wish this was around 20 years ago.
I finally pulled this thing out of the shipping box, and within 10 minutes I was up and running. (probably could have been 6 minutes, but my fat fingers and arthritic hands tend to slow me a bit). I had watched many online videos on how this thing worked, prior to my purchase. So it was pretty easy to “hit the ground running”. I have digitized approximately 24 3-inch reels of old 8mm film, and they are really fantastic looking. I am looking forward to converting all of my parents’ home videos from way back in the day, they should be delightfully surprised. As far as converting what I have done thus far, the default exposure settings have been optimal. Hopefully all of the films that I still have to do are just as simple, but I’d like to play with the various exposure settings just to see what affects will occur. I will say that the only downside that I have encountered is the use of the little puffer-brush that they provide you with the machine. It is very short in length, and the angle in which you must take to brush the Light Table, makes it a chore. I generally use a quick burst of compressed air (in a can), and it does a pretty good job at removing the residual particles from the older tapes. Glad I made the purchase.
I have higher expectations for this
I have higher expectations for this. It really is disappointing that it will not accommodate larger reels. Ive done 4 reels so far, like others have said it takes forever. I’ve problems too, primarily at the end of a film, none of the control buttons work. I called tech support and they said to clean it out with air duster. Well it does fix the problem temporarily so that’s good but still seems like its an unnecessary inconvenience. For the price it is reluctantly one of the better options out there that I’ve been able to find.If you found my review as helpful please mark it as such.
Quality of the movie files was really good compared to what I expected after watching some of …
Takes a little while to get use to the menu. Setting up the film is a little tricky. Quality of the movie files was really good compared to what I expected after watching some…
Great product
I wanted to process the 8mm films myself and this works great. I would recommend it.
Worked great for our small but long overdue job
Worked really well. Transferred a dozen or so very old(1930s) and fragile 8mm family movies that I’d been meaning to get to for years.
Nice little compact memory maker!
This item is ridiculously easy to set up and use! It is worth the price, especially given the number of memories brought back by using it.
720? MP4? Why convert an obsolete but HIGH quality format to yet another obsolete but LOW quality format?
Clever device for “emergency” situations or those in a careless rush with zero regard for preserving the quality of their priceless memories.
Excellent Product! Just need to be patient and work around issues.
Excellent Product! I tend to rate down alot of product but the Wolverine lives up to what it is intended to do. The reason for only 4 Stars is…1.
Does the job very well, frame by frame so …
Does the job very well, frame by frame so tou can preserve these memories into a digital format. Uses native mpeg files.
Five Stars
great product
Slow and steady wins the race
Through about 10 of the small reels (3”). Yes, it is slow, but just leave it run for the requisite 30 minutes and let it chug along.
Faulty Wolverine 8mm Film Digitizing Movie Maker
comments powered by DisqusThe machine arrived with the incorrect manual for a totally unrelated machine, made of crudely cut photocopies stapled together.
