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March 18, 2021
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captured video from scanned 8mm film

  • March 18, 2021
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I have an issue regarding the quality of captured video from a film scanner. Let me post you a background;

In early 2018 a got myself a small film scanner from Reflecta (may possibly also be manufacured as Wolverine) and with great help from Safeharbour11 in this forum, I managed to create a workflow creating a reasonably good result from scanning old 8mm film. In order to get an even better result I've got hold of a used but well kept professional scanner called Flashscan8 from a german firm named MWA. This scanner is outdated by todays standard but should be good enough for me to produce my scanned films on DVD. I use a JVC monitor with a SDI-connection to the scanner to check the running film and a firewire connetion between the scanner and my computer. I capture the film directly into Premiere Pro and here's the problem: The captured film looks out of focus and horisontal lines, or near horisontal lines, become jittery sometimes along with a color error. The film looks crystal clear on my JVC monitor (assuming its crystal clear on the original film) wich, to me, indicates that there's no problem within the scanning process itself. 

This is what I use:

Windows 10 pro 64 bit

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 2700x Eight Core 

RAM 32 GB

Monitor Eizo Color Edge

Flashscan 8 outputs 720x576 lines with 25 f/s and 25 Mbit/s on IEE 1394 (Firewire)

Though the scanning process is progressive, PP regards the film as interlaced when captured, so I change that in the sequence settings to progressive. I have tried to leave it interlaced but there is no difference to the quality other than when useing Neat video the picture is extremely distorted (from expected 4:3 to something like 16:3) but back on the timeline after filtering the aspect ratio is back to expected. 

Much appreciate some help.

 

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Inspiring
March 18, 2021

The scanning process is a nonissue. If you used a Firewire device the video is interlaced to PAL specs.

Your scanning method may or may not have had good results. You can drop the video in a 1920 X 1080 60P timeline and resize it as you wish and export at 60P.

Known Participant
March 19, 2021

Hi Andy,

Thnks for your rapid reply. I must admit I don't understand your suggestions. I tried my best to follow and made a new sequence from AVCHD 1080i in order to get the frame size 1920x1080. The 60P bit I didn't follow at all. In Sweden (or Europe if you wish) PAL is associated with 50P and furthermore I couldn't find a place to make that adjustment. I tried this sequence on a few clips but the picture is very small in the program monitor and to resize it to fit I had to zoom in A LOT and the sharpness didn't exactly benefit from that. When useing the Neat Video to reduce noice the picture becomes so stretched in width so it is hard to work with. Have I got everything wrong?? 

Ann Bens
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Community Expert
March 19, 2021

Forget about 60p does not apply to Europe or 50p for that matter.

SD PAL is 720x576 25 fps interlaced also noted as 50i.

You are trying to upscale SD to (HD 1080i) which will be very disappointing.