Originally posted by: mcfly89
If we only scanned the parts that were changed, how would we go about that?

That would bring it down from Alpha Centari to Jupiter. Keep in mind there were trims in the 2004 dvd. If you want to bring it down to skyscraper, then the absolute most important bit would be a few seconds of Cantina footage...

Any old scanner is higher resolution than 1920 x 1080, but does film require some kind of special scanner? How do we re-align the frames when we put them together?

Scanners do dpi. Not very many square i's in a negative... Article writers who review scanners don't seem to think you'd need a whole lot for the average slide, but I suspect their estimation is way off. Haven't tried it yet.

Bare minimum, you need a transparancy adaptor. (A light that shines through the film, by whatever means the manufacturer chooses). You'd be better off with a dedicated slide scanner. And, to really do the job, it needs to be 48-bit (and not just claim to be). It also needs to be able to save in raw format. Once that's taken care of, you would have to align each frame--- at 24 frames per second. And then there's the matter of making the brightness curve match the 2004 DVD (or future HD botchup), the color-correction & matching, cleanup... sounds like it could be done. But a few seconds would make a bonafied Project, with a capitol P. Of course there's probably something I'm overlooking...

Tinkerers have websites on their results for stepping systems to advance 8mm film, frame-by-frame through a scanner. One of them tried a bunch of ways, and one even wrote a bit of software for automatically cutting strips that were scanned on a flatbed. Too bad I don't know where I saved the links. (Tired now, will probably forget tommorow. But you could probably Google them up). I'd think a person could adapt that to 16mm.