Francisco, The flatbed scanner process I am most familiar with is Wolfgang Kurz's software CineToVidPro http://wkurz.com/ His software seems to do a decent job at composing the frames. In spit of being a java-based program I believe this only works on Windows-based machines and seems like a very laborious process. As far as I know you still have to compile the stills in the same way the JK process calls for. Also, you can only scan as many frames that fit into a flatbed scanner at a time. So you would have to sit there and scan 60 frames or so at a time, wait for the program to process them and then scan some more! For a 100' of 16mm you'd have to sit there and make 70+ individual scans, and put more effort into cleaning the film/scanner between each strip/risk scratching. Also, flatbed scanners that scan transparent materials are typically more $$.
Though I would really be interested in seeing someone hack a Nikon 35mm scanner (32-bit system only without VueScan or a few other scanning programs) that has the feed-thru function to take 16mm film. It would also be slow, but if you can get the driver support for the 32-bit system to operate on Kurz's software it'd be pretty effing awesome. Unfortunately those scanners are very expensive now and Nikon doesn't want to make more in spite of the demand, so it's probably not worth it to rip one apart. With the JK/camera option I can more or less "set it and forget it". I just count the number of frames with the film on rewinds/a sync block, input that number into the program and walk away for a few hours. I believe the method I described should yield fairly high quality results, though I'm skeptical about archival/broadcast given the number of variables and presence of a lens. As of late I rent a film scanner and go through a bunch of film in one sitting. I'm more inclined to buy a camera because it serves more than one purpose, plus if the results are any decent it's paid for itself after 200' of film. I generally need an OK camera more than I need a really nice film scanner. I know people/organizations that post here have done what I'm talking about so I'm hoping someone might chime in. Chris
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