Any modern software for Moviestuff DV8 Sniper HD telecine

Clark Nikolai · March 26

We have a Moviestuff 8mm Sniper HD telecine. The company, moviestuff.tv went bankrupt a few years ago.

It's a model that doesn't have a rotating shutter, instead it puts a click in the audio track of the recorded video to indicate a non-blurry frame. In this file you see the pulldown blur. You then use software to process these files which keeps only the frames where there is a click and makes a new file of just those good non-blurred frames. It's a two step process.

It uses a Canon HV-30 camera with HDMI out. That goes in to a specific capture card in a Windows PC. The software it came with, called Velocity-HD, only runs on Windows XP to Windows 7 Ultimate in 32bit. I don't have the capture card it wants so I tried to capture with a different card and bring the files in to the software for the processing but it didn't have an option to import files made by any other software.

Has anyone heard of some other software that people have used with these old units? We have a Mac OS video capture setup that can record the camera's output to a file but need to find something that can process it to keep only the good frames (that have the click.)

Pilvari Pirtola · March 29

On 3/26/2026 at 4:25 AM, Clark Nikolai said:

We have a Moviestuff 8mm Sniper HD telecine. The company, moviestuff.tv went bankrupt a few years ago.

It's a model that doesn't have a rotating shutter, instead it puts a click in the audio track of the recorded video to indicate a non-blurry frame. In this file you see the pulldown blur. You then use software to process these files which keeps only the frames where there is a click and makes a new file of just those good non-blurred frames. It's a two step process.

It uses a Canon HV-30 camera with HDMI out. That goes in to a specific capture card in a Windows PC. The software it came with, called Velocity-HD, only runs on Windows XP to Windows 7 Ultimate in 32bit. I don't have the capture card it wants so I tried to capture with a different card and bring the files in to the software for the processing but it didn't have an option to import files made by any other software.

Has anyone heard of some other software that people have used with these old units? We have a Mac OS video capture setup that can record the camera's output to a file but need to find something that can process it to keep only the good frames (that have the click.)

Just bought a similar machine couple of months ago, also unfortunately without the capture card. Haven't yet figured out a way to use it...

Clark Nikolai · March 30

18 hours ago, Pilvari Pirtola said:

Just bought a similar machine couple of months ago, also unfortunately without the capture card. Haven't yet figured out a way to use it...

Which model is it?

Steve Switaj · March 31

what kind of motor does it have, and how many FPS is it shooting?

Clark Nikolai · March 31

10 hours ago, Steve Switaj said:

what kind of motor does it have, and how many FPS is it shooting?

It's an electric motor of some type but from what I can tell it's running at about 8 or 9 FPS. That doesn't match up well with the 30 FPS of the video camera. There's no way to change the speed.

Perry Paolantonio · April 1

I had no idea that's how those worked. What a wacky setup!

Honestly, this is not something you're going to find off the shelf software for because such a thing does not exist. The software that runs film scanners is custom built for the scanner, or it's some kind of janky setup that uses the camera manufacturer's generic software, triggered by the movement of the film (like a perf reader or similar).

Custom software for this is definitely more trouble than it's worth, given the age and relatively low quality of that scanner. If you were going to go that route, you're diving into the deep end and you may as well gut it and start over. I would check out the Kinograph forums (kinograph.cc) to see some examples of DIY scanners. There's more there than just info about the actual Kinograph project (which has been in development for some time).

Clark Nikolai · April 2

14 hours ago, Perry Paolantonio said:

I had no idea that's how those worked. What a wacky setup!

It is odd but apparently it worked good enough for the time. Not all models from this company did it this way. There were variations over the years.

14 hours ago, Perry Paolantonio said:

Honestly, this is not something you're going to find off the shelf software for because such a thing does not exist. The software that runs film scanners is custom built for the scanner, or it's some kind of janky setup that uses the camera manufacturer's generic software, triggered by the movement of the film (like a perf reader or similar).

I have ideas that something like an Apple Script that could control Final Cut to edit out any frames that don't have the click. For someone good at scripting it might not be too much work to code. I did this manually for a few seconds worth of film and it sort of worked. Just need to automate the process.

14 hours ago, Perry Paolantonio said:

Custom software for this is definitely more trouble than it's worth, given the age and relatively low quality of that scanner. If you were going to go that route, you're diving into the deep end and you may as well gut it and start over. I would check out the Kinograph forums (kinograph.cc) to see some examples of DIY scanners. There's more there than just info about the actual Kinograph project (which has been in development for some time).

The quality of it is quite good actually. HD but that's a function of the video camera it's designed to work with. If something can be done otherwise than a 4K camera could be used instead.

We're thinking now that maybe we just need to find an old 32 bit PC and the capture card it requires (Blackmagic Intensity HD) as we do have the original Windows software and license key it came with.

Since the company is bankrupt, it would be great if there was some online place for all the people with orphaned telecines to compare notes and help each other.

Edited April 2 by Clark Nikolai