the Super 8 only works for about a minute worth of film

When the editing is complete, I have great digital copies of my 8mm & Super 8 film Reels.

Bought this product to convert old super 8 film reels to SD.

When the editing is complete, I have great digital copies of my 8mm & Super 8 film Reels.

Bought this product to convert old super 8 film reels to SD.

The unit does a great job of converting old movies to digital format.

It does a pretty decent job with film that's in good condition.

It's very easy to set up and operate and it did a good job

This machine does a good job of converting 8mm movies to digital

It does a good job of cleaning, as well as conditioning the film

Most likely because the designers wanted to accommodate both super 8 and 8mm film, a proper vertical alignment mechanism was omitted.

Framing seems stable over a single reel but creeps in when changing reels and more so when switching between 8mm and Super 8

Although it does not make a crappy 8mm film any less crappy

, etc.you must know before digitizing your own film reels that 8mm was difficult!

I have found the Wolverine 8mm & Super 8 Reels to Digital MovieMaker Pro Film Digitizer to be a fantastic product for converting 8 mm and super 8 film too MP4 movies.

I said earlier, this is a consumer level quality machine, but it is packed with enough features to allow you to make nice transfers of you films

I've really enjoyed transferring my 50+ year old 8mm family films

I have found the machine very easy to use and have transferred about 50+ films so far.

The Wolverine did great job transferring 1950's 8mm family films to digital.

Very poor quality construction and design with very inefficient transfer of low quality, grainy images, even on the "HD" version.

Slow might be the best when working with old film.

The videos work great, and upload to my hosting site, where they work well with the video hosting feature there

Don't lose the little plastic adapters that go on the spindles to make the larger super 8mm work I can imagine that being a problem to find replacements

I can also stabilize any shaky camera work., add music, cut out bad spots, etc.

I can also stabilize any shaky camera work., add music, cut out bad spots, etc.

I believe that the amount of time invested in this transfer will yield good results.

So it misses the mark in some ways and takes a bit of monkey grease to work it properly, but the results are truly stunning.

While it does digitize and the results are pretty good, it does not work consistently.

First, don’t expect perfection!That’s not to say that the results are not amazingly good to great

- Film routing: I started with the recommendation of a reviewer to bypass a couple of the take up pins, but I found that on the 7" reel the film was really jumpy as a result.

It does a pretty decent job with film that's in good condition.

I know others have been successful and maybe my film is in worse condition than

I usually run them in the background where I can listen for a change in sound but as stated after hours and hours of use have had just two stoppages where tape was shoddily applied to join film or just bad condition, never trouble with good film

Does exactly what it claims provided film is in good condition

For film in good condition, you get watchable 1080p mp4 video

Although you can "watch" the scan process (either on a monitor smaller than a 5 year old mobile or via a RCA jack to a TV), but you can't see the end product until after downloading to your computer, so it's a risk to not ensure you can re-scan the film if something goes off (see above), hence dumping in a box is not recommendedTo get a replacement, I had to pay for the return shipping out of my own pocket, although the device was defective.

If a splice hangs up and you pull on the film, you can damage the device and the instructions make that clear

When scanning 8mm films the device works very well, with few difficulties pulling the film through the scanning mechanism

Works much better than the cheaper device also offered by Amazon.

Thank you Wolverine for putting this awesome device together!

I have not tried redoing poor quality output to determine if it can be improved

The movies are good quality and now enjoyed by the whole family.

Poor quality film may get the jitters or need some exposure/color correction.

The quality of the digitized images seems good - clean the film before digitizing.

I had some super8 from 1967 that was harder to get working probably because of the poor quality of the films.

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The medium sized wheel can hold small super 8’s no

With all the choices for LED’s, Wolverine could have chosen an LED with a more natural, warmer color.

Quality was better than I expected considering most of the reels were made in the 60’s and early 70’s.

With all the choices for LED’s, Wolverine could have chosen an LED with a more natural, warmer color.

The feed-side tensioning is inadequate, so--as the reel unwinds--it pushes the film into the claw mechanism inconsistently, which results in video that is so jittery, it's unwatchable

Quality was better than I expected considering most of the reels were made in the 60’s and early 70’s.

With all the choices for LED’s, Wolverine could have chosen an LED with a more natural, warmer color.

On top of this, the uptake side tensioning is overkill

Verily easy to use, great machine to digitize your old 8 and super 8 films

After 6 hours or so the machine would start to jam up and stop working.

This machine does not play well with splices or metal reels

The bad splices and worn sprocket holes mentioned above will jam the machine and it will generate many shots of the jammed frame

The menu is easy to use, the machine is working flawlessly so far

That is the biggest negative because anytime you stop unit to adjust film the counter advances the counter

Make sure the film is under these three tabs or you'll ruin your film.7) auto-advance with no control

The common menu driven frame adjustments - Horizontal, vertical and zoom as well as +

Most of the time super8 mm would have a vertical blur when advancing to the next frame

The common menu driven frame adjustments - Horizontal, vertical and zoom as well as +

the more sharp bends you make the more tendency to jam or break the film

These machines work by grabbing your super 8mm or 8mm film and taking a shot of each frame.

Older film is sometimes more brittle and film can break

The film jams at the spinal just after the camera takes the picture

I am a hobbyist 8mm and super 8 film collector, and like many, I have more film in my study than is good for me (that's what she said

Those grinding gears are more worrisome because the warranty on this machine is a joke

The common menu driven frame adjustments - Horizontal, vertical and zoom as well as +

(1) software dates all files starting 2016 and resets on every reboot - have to manually date files; (2) take up reel that comes with unit is for regular 8, so you have to keep switching adapters if you are digitizing super 8 - bought a take-up reel with integral 8/super 8 adapter to eliminate switching; (3) warranty good for 200 rolls, but counter steps if you restart or test a few feet of a roll; also used a few counter steps as part of unit learning and familiarization.

I have returned this product and am looking at other brands to try for the rest of the reels I have left to convert, as well as, to try re-recording the 5-in and larger reels that could not keep the frame adjustments in place.

The warranty is odd--every scanning session numbered, regardless of its length.

y muchos otros ajustes y la máquina solo te marca error, pero no te dice cuál

For 33 combo reels, it took me probably a good 4-5 total days of running from 8'ish am to approx

SO, I went on Amazon and bought [25Ft RCA M/Mx3 Audio/Video Cable Gold Plated - Audio Video RCA Cable 25ft] and also to my local Walmart to purchase a [Audio Video Gold RCA Female to Female Coupler

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With all the choices for LED’s, Wolverine could have chosen an LED with a more natural, warmer color.

And it also started to make a loud 'grinding' sound, which gave me concern.

n’t reset when you plug it back in, even with the film removed, and it just keeps making the horrible clicking sounds until it randomly decides to start

know what type of gearing it has inside, whether plastic or metal, but after 40 hours of nearly continuous use of this machine, the motor did sound like it was struggling a bit – meaning, the sound was louder and I heard a lot more “grinding” than when I first started

The medium sized wheel can hold small super 8’s no

The medium sized wheel can hold small super 8’s no

Second, if there is any flaw in the film such as a bad splice or sprocket holes, then it simply stops transporting the film through the guide.

I've run about 15 large edited-together reels, about 10 hours of film through it, both super 8 but mostly standard 8, and have had no problem, two times old worn elongated sprocket holes had it stop in place, but the cool LED lamp for small distance/conversion doesn't burn film like an old projector, so I simply had to move the film a bit and continue, you can run cut pieces through it, doesn't have to be tensioned as perfectly as a real-time projector

The only problem I had was broken sprocket holes in the first 3 or 4 frames of the reel, but after that it went through the reel none stop

That said, as long as the film doesn't hang up on a bad splice or multiple broken sprocket holes that needs to be manually advanced past it can be left virtually alone to do its thing.- Don't expect to transfer an old movie using only the machine and having a watchable video afterwards

The only downside was the slow rewind speed, but we both still had working projectors, so we used these for rewinding our large reels.

The rewind is much slower than it would be with a projector, but it's not so slow that I would drag out my projector just to rewind

While recording/rewinding, the metal reels then wobble A LOT, regardless of the size, which can sometimes be a problem on the take-up end and makes the loose winding issue worse.5

The rewind is much slower than it would be with a projector, but it's not so slow that I would drag out my projector just to rewind

Wolverine does a nice job rewinding .. slow but not forever slow - still advise be with it as it can spill off the reels making a total mess

I won’t cover film preparation like cleaning or fixing bad splices

You do have to pay attention to the process as bad splices can be a problem.

One thing to keep in mind, if your splices are good, they will run through with no problem

Spent the whole morning trying to digitize two 3" rolls of film that are in great condition (good sprockets, no splices, etc).

The bad splices and worn sprocket holes mentioned above will jam the machine and it will generate many shots of the jammed frame

The control buttons are a bit tricky to use but the results are worth the aggravation!

Do find getting the film under the feeder notches is a bit tricky but the quality of the film is exceptional.

An admission, I work in television engineering so I am a bit harder to please but at the same time, I understand the process of setting the unit up which was not hard at all

They were a bit dusty and dirty and left stuff behind after capturing the film

I was a bit reluctant at first to try this on my own but actually enjoyed the time spent.

The rewind is much slower than it would be with a projector, but it's not so slow that I would drag out my projector just to rewind

I've had many requests to do these and until I purchased these machines I had the old way of doing them and that is using a 1950s 8mm projector and a Bell and Howell super 8 projector and broadcast them onto a white board and capture with a digital video recorder.

The final product is every bit as good as watching an old film on a clunky projector in a dark room, and you can pause, rewind, capture still pics, etc

Odds are you don't have a projector or the bulb burnt out or you just don't have the patience to try to set it up

There is no hot projector bulb that burns the film

Tension is overkill with the one tiny tooth drive film advances and take up spindle pulling hard

They play just fine on my computer, right from the memory card and from the hard drive too, using two different players

In addition if the sprocket tooth encounters a single torn sprocket hole, the drive will fail completely and the film will stall in the mechanism

There are workarounds on the Wolverine website involving jamming a folded piece of paper beneath the window that latches down over the film, and this workaround does, sometimes, work

I have broken many film pieces while trying

Called support and their cute was to wedge a piece of paper between door and floor of film base to take off the tension

This was even after jamming a piece of paper where the company web site says to jam a piece of paper.

The “landing” where the film enters the actual scanner portion has a small piece of felt, but the film first drags across the plastic body