1930's 40's family footage. Best format for FCP?
I apologize in advance for what are probably rudimentary questions...
Short of the long, a family member paid to have a treasure trove of old family films that were shot by my Great Grandfather in the late 1930's and into the early 1960's. They were filmed on 16mm and 8mm, which were transfered to avi's. Some of the earliest stuff was even shot in color!
Anyway, the job of putting these on dvd has been bestowed onto me. Believe me I'm not complaining. But one of the questions I am running into is what would the proper file format be to convert all the digital files into?
Like I said they are avi's. No audio. In Compressor they read like this - Encoded bounds 720x480 Display 640x480 NTSC FR 29.97. There is probably around three hours of film. Pretty much all I'm going to do for this first round of dvds is do some minor editing in FCP such as slow the frame rate, slight color adjustments, add period music, titles, etc., then export to dvdpro.
And speaking of color adjustments, anybody have any experience in color adjusting old bw film? If so I'm all ears.(eyes)
Obviously, I don't want to screw this treasure trove up. It's just that I don't have any experience working with files like these. I would greatly appreciate any advice or suggestions in how to handle files of this type. Anybody else have experience with doing a project like this?
Thank you in advance!
Short of the long, a family member paid to have a treasure trove of old family films that were shot by my Great Grandfather in the late 1930's and into the early 1960's. They were filmed on 16mm and 8mm, which were transfered to avi's. Some of the earliest stuff was even shot in color!
Anyway, the job of putting these on dvd has been bestowed onto me. Believe me I'm not complaining. But one of the questions I am running into is what would the proper file format be to convert all the digital files into?
Like I said they are avi's. No audio. In Compressor they read like this - Encoded bounds 720x480 Display 640x480 NTSC FR 29.97. There is probably around three hours of film. Pretty much all I'm going to do for this first round of dvds is do some minor editing in FCP such as slow the frame rate, slight color adjustments, add period music, titles, etc., then export to dvdpro.
And speaking of color adjustments, anybody have any experience in color adjusting old bw film? If so I'm all ears.(eyes)
Obviously, I don't want to screw this treasure trove up. It's just that I don't have any experience working with files like these. I would greatly appreciate any advice or suggestions in how to handle files of this type. Anybody else have experience with doing a project like this?
Thank you in advance!
