Ok, I just tried scanning a slide and it worked perfectly. So in theory, this could be done. I scanned a standard sized slide (very small) at 1600 DPI and it came out to 2216x1508 (roughly cropped to the edges). A 35mm frame would be larger than these little slides, so my scanner is more than capable of making an HD scan of the movie. According to wikipedia, 35mm film is 16 frames per foot. My scanner can scan up to a foot at a time. Of course I would probably have some overlap so lets say I do 12 frames at a time to make calculations easy. It would take me two scans for every second of film. Assuming the movie is 121 minutes long, that would be 7260 seconds or 14520 scans. If I did 100 scans a day on average, it would take me about 145 days to complete the whole movie. I would probably do a lot more than 100 scans at a time, but not every day. The only thing left would be to cut and paste the scanned frames into single pictures and digitally remove any blemishes using photoshop or whatever if desired and resize/stretch them to the proper resolution and aspect ratio and save them in a lossless format such as .PNG, then import the pictures into Vegas or whatever, correct the color, and make the AVCHD movie.

Am I crazy, or would this work?

Mike