Footage I scanned on a flatbed, compare with a pro telecine

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Footage I scanned on a flatbed, compare with a pro telecine

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Here is a bit of Kodachrome 40 super8 I shot handheld on a Beaulieu 4008ZMII at 70fps half a year ago, which I scanned on an Epson 4990 flatbed film scanner as 3200dpi TIF's. I cut each frame individually (108 in total) in CorelDraw paint and composed them together as an uncompressed AVI at 18fps in a stop motion program called Monkeyjam. The uncompressed 989X649 pixel AVI file is 178MB and runs for only 5 seconds. You don’t have to download it, I thought I’d just uploaded it for those interested in comparing it with their professional telecine jobs.

http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1GMK ... 2T8ED66QWV
There is a limit of how many downloads so I guess its first in first served.

Here is a gif I made of the actual shot for those who don’t want to download the file.
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aquagak wrote:Here is a bit of Kodachrome 40 super8 I shot handheld on a Beaulieu 4008ZMII at 70fps half a year ago, which I scanned on an Epson 4990 flatbed film scanner as 3200dpi TIF's.
Looks fantastic!
From a professional telecine owner/operator perspective, however, there actually is no comparison, because of time consumption - what would be the turnaround on say, 1000 feet of film? ~:?)

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Looks pretty good especially the registration. I've done flatbed scanner transfers before with 35mm films from the 1920's that had severely damaged sprockets. Transferring 150 frames took me about 5 hours. I only do this with damaged film and prefer the 6fps Workprinter XP. Even I don't have the patience at 1fps which is what I get on my Laird Optical Multiplexer 16mm unit.
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Mitch Perkins wrote:
aquagak wrote:Here is a bit of Kodachrome 40 super8 I shot handheld on a Beaulieu 4008ZMII at 70fps half a year ago, which I scanned on an Epson 4990 flatbed film scanner as 3200dpi TIF's.
Looks fantastic!
From a professional telecine owner/operator perspective, however, there actually is no comparison, because of time consumption - what would be the turnaround on say, 1000 feet of film? ~:?)

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Really, cool thanks. Well that 5 seconds took me around 4 hours Haha, that's from scanning the strips, cutting each frame and composing as an AVI. But I mainly shoot super 8 just to project, if I have a favorite few seconds of footage then I’ll flatbed telecine it.

Haha 1000 feet of film would take 2626hours which is 109days or 15weeks.
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aquagak wrote:
Mitch Perkins wrote:
aquagak wrote:Here is a bit of Kodachrome 40 super8 I shot handheld on a Beaulieu 4008ZMII at 70fps half a year ago, which I scanned on an Epson 4990 flatbed film scanner as 3200dpi TIF's.
Looks fantastic!
From a professional telecine owner/operator perspective, however, there actually is no comparison, because of time consumption - what would be the turnaround on say, 1000 feet of film? ~:?)

Mitch
Really, cool thanks. Well that 5 seconds took me around 4 hours Haha, that's from scanning the strips, cutting each frame and composing as an AVI. But I mainly shoot super 8 just to project, if I have a favorite few seconds of footage then I’ll flatbed telecine it.
Well, it just looks great. Nice work.
aquagak wrote:Haha 1000 feet of film would take 2626hours which is 109days or 15weeks.
...not to mention getting that green stuff all over your hands. ~:?)

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Post by Carlos 8mm »

Hi Aquagak, great work (and patience) ! :wink:

Which flatbed scanner did you use (brand & model) :?:
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Oops, forget it, I didn´t read your post properly. :oops:
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Post by steve hyde »

Wow! That is really imaginative. Stuff like this looks great on framed LCD screens.

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I´d love to see it but it´s gone already...
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Aquagak,
could you please reload it? I am pretty curious as Mathis.
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Post by Scotness »

Perhaps you could post a clip sized somewhere between full rez uncompressed and an animated gif :D

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Post by Shion »

Or even a couple of full-size stills?

Looks very interesting, based on the GIF. I have that same model scanner, so might have to try this myself sometime. :)

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Post by aquagak »

I'm uploading it again, it should take a few hours. I will bump this thread with the link when it’s ready. It expires after 25 download.
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how about uploading it somewhere that allows more than 25 downloads? just a wild and crazy idea... ;-)

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mattias wrote:how about uploading it somewhere that allows more than 25 downloads? just a wild and crazy idea... ;-)

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I would if someone offered to host, my site only has a 30MB upload limit.

In the meanwhile here is the 2nd yousendit link
http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1YDM ... NTIRL086LT
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