logo Sign In

Post #639932

Author
mikeaz123
Parent topic
Info: POSSIBLY FOUND - Star Wars A New Hope Technicolor I.B. dye transfer print - random post on reddit
Link to post in topic
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/639932/action/topic#639932
Date created
19-May-2013, 2:38 AM

poita said:

There are a few reasons why that wouldn't work, Apart from whether that scanner would work for cine film at all, which I doubt, but assuming it did,  it takes around 17 seconds per frame, that would equate to 816 hours to scan 2 hours of film.

So at 8 hours a day, it would take around 100 days, assuming you did nothing else.

Even time considerations aside, I personally wouldn't put a valuable print anywhere near something like that, and I doubt the internal software would identify the frame boundaries etc. correctly.

I looked up that scanner and I don't think it would work, I mean you could set the scanner in between the rewinds and slowly do, but that scanner doesn't look very high quality at all.  And I have a feeling that it would take much much more time than that.... however, I assume once the training session is over (or if you're already a pro at it), one could reasonably make a scan that quick.