Digitising cine films, slide and 35mm photos

I’m sure many of us will be in a similar position to me, having old cine films that we no longer watch or indeed have the capability to watch. Who remembers setting up the living room with black out curtains, a big screen and projector, getting all the family together to watch the last three months of family life captured on 4 minutes of film? Then the projector bulb blew straight away and you had no spare, or the film jammed/broke in the cogs and having to splice it back together ending up with missing a vital bit. Then we did the same with a family slide viewing evening, only spending most of the time viewing them upside down if not back to front.

Anyway back to the point of my post, I’m hoping to get all our old family cine films/photos/slides scanned in over the winter period and viewable on the PC.

35mm PHOTOS
Most of our family photos are quite well organised in albums so (using my all-in-one printer/scanner) I could scan each album a page at a time. It’s time consuming but the few I’ve tried come out well.

An alternative time-saving idea is to pay to have all the 35mm negatives scanned onto DVD then spend time matching them up to our albums. Trouble is I don’t have negatives for all of them (e.g. photos sent from friends/relatives) and the negatives are all in a big jumble in a shoe box. So I’d have to scan in the few photos that have no matching negative. I wonder if that might be quicker than me scanning in all the photos?


CINE FILMS:
There are about 4 ½ hours of Super 8 cine footage, I definitely need to pay to get this transferred onto DVD. The prices I’ve seen on the internet seem reasonable and since me and my brother/sisters are splitting the cost we don’t mind having them done professionally. I would love to hear of any personal recommendations for companies offering this service.


SLIDES:
I’ve got around 300 slides (in 126 format) plus a load more that were my Dad’s (not sure how many or what format yet till I get my hands on them). There are too many to do it myself, I already tried with a cheap slide scanner. It was taking me ages to set up, scan and then post process each slide so I will be looking at getting these done professionally too.

So I’m interested in hearing members’ experiences of getting negatives/photos/slide/film scanned, either themselves or using a shop/web based service or any other thoughts.

 

Dave; thanks for your advice. Can you tell me which model of Epson scanner you use and also how long does it take to scan? I have a Brother scanner and it takes a couple of minutes for each one, then the image needs loading into software to be cropped, I can see it taking me a very long time using mine.

For all the videos I had overlooked editing, so I'll have to factor that in too. I will look into Magix Edit Pro thanks.

pete; that's a good point. I'm thinking that once they are digitised I can copy them from DVD onto other computer media, and in future it will just be a software conversion into whatever is the latest format Anyway I have to do something, right now I can't do anything with them, there are some precious family films going back at least 50 years that my kids have never seen and even to me are fading distant memories.