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I wanted to scan some old family super-8 movies. You can buy film scanners that will do the job on amazon. The only problem seems to be that they will encode the video, but nobody seems to convert the magnetic audio track.

EDIT: example - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN93JSX6

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I used a similar scanner from Amazon for some 8mm. It mostly worked, but I ultimately decided it was a better use of my time to have the film professionally digitized.

I would still love to figure out a good process to clean and upscale the video. I tried Topaz a while back, but it didn't seem suited for some of the artifacts in old, jittery film.

Do you have a service or an individual you’d recommend? My fiancé’s mom has some old film from their childhood that is meaningful to them, and we’re considering gifting them some digitization services if we can find someone to help.

I used legacybox. I was wary of shipping off something so irreplaceable, but it came back safe and sound.

I've used Kodakdigitizing.com

It was costly (but the price per roll went down if you have a number of rolls) but the mailer they sent was high quality. I never had any worries about my film being damaged in transit.

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