Movie film to DVD

Is there any way to transfer super 8 movie film to DVD. I have literally thousands of feet of movie film that I want to transfer so even at $.15 a foot I can not afford to have it done "commercially". I am willing to sacrifice quality if need be.
Any help/advice would be much appreciated.
Dave

Well, I have a really labor-intensive way to do it...but the results are pretty good.
I have a GAF model 788 projector, which has a sprocketless drive, an inching knob, and a reflector lamp mounted at a right-angle to the film plane, with a small front-surface mirror right behind the gate. What I did was to remove the mirror and the lamp from the projector. I stuffed a daylight-balanced 40w vanity light into the lamp holder (using a socket and cable I bought at a hardware store) and replaced the mirror with a piece of white styrene plastic. I attached a 3" slide projector lens to the front of my camcorder lens, and lined everything up. I connected the camcorder to my PowerBook and used a frame capture program to capture frames at 720x480. The camcorder is focused (via the three lenses) directly on the film in the projector gate. I captured frames on the PowerBook and assembled them as a QuickTime movie at 18 FPS. I'm not sure if iDVD can handle a QuickTime movie with an oddball frame rate or not, but I also have Avid Xpress Pro, so I can use that to change the frame rate to 29.97 FPS for conversion to DVD.
I'd put together a web page detailing the process, but it's kind of hard to take pictures when my camera is the subject of the photo.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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