Grandpa's home movies

[Bob-Stith]

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My father has just discovered 2 8" canisters of 16mm home movies my grandfather shot just prior to his death in 1960. Dad is planning to have the film transfered to DVD and editing the resulting file(s) to produce video DVDs that include naration, backgroung music and special effects. Dad has created other family history documents on CD, but this is his first try at video.

My primary questions are:

For the best quality, in what file format should the orignal 16mm film be recorded? What file format would be best for making the family history DVD/CDs for the children and grandchildren.

Dad knows that his 8 year old (PC) system is not up to the task at hand so my next question is how large a hard drive will he need in the new system he is going to buy? It is a given that we will cram as much memory into the system that it will take. And, since the only video imput will be from a DVD, will he need a video capture card? Are there any other hardware considerations?

Do you have any software recomendations?

Thanks
Bob Stith



Also:

Since the data imput is from a DVD only, does he need a video capture card?