Federico Rampin

The Reflecta stops each frame for 2.5seconds, no idea how many scans it does during this time...

Dears, very nice discussion,really. In the meanwhile I had a try with Film9 software. It's the only suite dedicated to reversal, it's not perfect but it's really good. I'm trying to get in touch with it. Have a try: http://www.film9.org/film9/SetupFilm9.exe

Well, unfortunately that's the stuff I need to play with. Anyway, I can say at least one version for any scene is good, I think just a bit of tuning will be enough. Of course working in HDR would be the best, but you're right stating this may lead to time waste. I'm just surprised, having the S8 been a leading format for 20 years, to confirm nobody developed a restoration tool for home movies, this could be a business...

Well, this scanner is over 1000$, I'm not sure it supports HDR, it supports auto brightness and contrast anyway, the JPEG output was the reason of my 1st complain to the vendor. By the way, this scanner is very precise in the frame detection and crop, it's just up to sync the 5 versions I have, isn't this like a manual HDR? I can have a try, then if this will be too hard I'll just proceed as I originally stated. Photoshop is capable to automatically overlap different digitizations loaded as multiple layers: it shifts layers to obtain a perfect overlap. If this will work I'll just need to find a way to do an automatic cropping and finally to combine, correct? Tks!

Wow... Your answer confirms I have no idea what to do :) I've been carefully reading it. It's now clear to me what to do, but honestly I need to learn how. I purchased a scanner by Reflecta (I wrote a rewiew in Italian but I can translate it to English for thug forum if useful). Its software saves frames to JPEG, then combines to MJPEG AVI. I think I'll work on JPEGs, because such software is crappy and MJPEG is a mess in 2018. I think I'll rely on the Adobe CC suite for HDR and all the rest if I won't find dedicated tools. I can only find a tool called Film9, but I haven't been trying it, yet. Tks!

Hi everybody. I've just being digitizing some Super8 films with a frame-by-frame scanner. Any films has been digitized 5 times with different brightness/contrast settings. My idea is, for any films, to sync all versions in order to select, for any scenes, the best version. Finally, I'd like to fix brightness, contrast, white balance and color distortion at best. I know many video editing tools, but I've never been performing this job so I risk to operate in the wrong way and to not to achieve the best quality because I'm inexperienced. So... I'll really appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance.