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Topic: Review Wolverine Reels2Digital MovieMaker 8mm film digitizer
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Kamel Ikhlef
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 213
From: Arches, France
Registered: Oct 2018
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posted October 14, 2019 03:18 AM
Stan,
I did not know that thingiverse was offering this type of service. Thank you for the link...
I think it's better for people interested to go through this type of service because I'm just a passionate and it would really take me too much post processing time.
I will not be able to answer the request. If it's for one-time troubleshooting only, of course i'ts no problem.
That's why I have shared my files for the community to help each other. maybe some can print for others?
For PCBs, If you finish the development of a V8, I will be happy and looking forward to having the shematic.
Thanks again Stan for initiating this great project and of course, have very good holidays, well deserved. ![[Wink]](wink.gif) ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
[ October 14, 2019, 08:14 AM: Message edited by: Kamel Ikhlef ]
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Mike Spice
Master Film Handler
Posts: 421
From: none of your business
Registered: Jun 2017
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posted October 15, 2019 02:51 PM
The beauty of the FB group is that we can post very many video clips instantly, to demonstrate problems, photos can be posted in HD by the 100's without re sizing, and it is much quicker to get a reply.
I am happy to say my mod is working well, but I do have to get the correct lens mount from imaging source as the 3D printed lens mount that Kamel made for me is just a bit too deep so I can't focus properly.
The new films guides printed for me by Kamel are very nice.
other than that, very happy.
I understand some folks dislike of the FB platform, but it is possible to join and not give any details other than a name.
An empty profile with no personal details or even rogue details would allow you to at least join mine and Stans group to see what's going on.
Stans group is modding of the scanner, where as mine is more based around my 8mm scan service, but right now, talking about the mod and looking at pictures and clips.
Once my mod is complete, my group will go back to being a film scanning service
My FB group
A few observations from my mod experience today:
Pro users using the Hawkeye face plate for switches will need to buy tiny little nuts and bolts to secure it to the case.
The fan wire may come complete one day, but right now requires joining two wires together in what appears to be the wrong way round. Red to Black on one side and Black to Red on the other.
This is clear in stans original video at the forum.
I had an issue with the LED not coming on, but stan now assures us that further boards will have a short or switch option across the point I shorted today.
Setting the resolution on my camera was a little confusing to begin with, but now sorted.
I stumbled on my first test scan as I didn't follow stans exact instructions about setting the external trigger before then going to the timer and actually starting the timer, even tho the timer as such is not required, because everything is triggered by the scanner.
My very first 14 second test scan in tiff format came out at over 3Gb uncompressed but I got that down to 11mb in mp4
Image size was 2592 x 1944.
Large hard drive space is most certainly the order of the day, that said I will be testing out scans in jpg as well.
I did get a little confused with the LED power wire as I didn't see it specifically being disconnected in stans forum video, but only being reconnected to the new board.
I realised once unplugged from the old board, it dropped away behind the stepper motor un noticed.
[ October 15, 2019, 03:57 PM: Message edited by: Mike Spice ]
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Mike Spice
Master Film Handler
Posts: 421
From: none of your business
Registered: Jun 2017
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posted October 15, 2019 11:43 PM
Bruce I can't remember what resolution I have the capture software set to but it is the maximum size.
That is set in a drop down box along to the upper menu area of the capture software.
5am in the morning here, everything packed away, so writing this from memory for now.
In device properties menu you can set the destination folder and image format, tiff files will be ENORMOUS jpg files will have some compression but be significantly smaller.
Once you have set those, click the external trigger icon along the top of the menus.
Hover he mouse over the icons and it will tell you what each icon does.
Then go to to the timer menu and set it to zero and again I think you can check image type and destination folder here also.
Click start timer, you probably get an alert box open at that point to say something about timings, ignore it, OK it away.
at this point, nothing should happen, start the scanner up and at that point it should start saving images.
for post process I am using VirtualDub (free)
VirtualDub
You will need to also locate the divxX mp4 codec online, also free. Install that codec first from the Divx website only
once running, go to open video file and point the program at the first image in the sequence, it will the automatically load the sequentially numbered images as well.
The viewer windows left, original input screen, right, filtered output screen, can be re sized to your laptop/computer with a right click each.
in the video menu choose FRAMERATE and there select change framerate to and insert your desired fps
in the video menu choose COMPRESSION and hopefully the xvid codec will be among the choices offered.
In the FILE menu choose save as.
Once processing starts, ini the process window un check 'show input and output video options' to save computer resources chugging away while trying to render the video, go have a cup of tea.
let it do its thing, job done.
This is just my personal preference for stringing together an image sequence, there are many other ways of doing it, many video edits will do it too, I would look for youtube tutorials on your particular edit software.
That said, saving as a compressed avi file will degrade quality for post edits....
You could use a different codec, your choice.
VDub will do a myriad of other tricks too but it can be confusing, but basic image sequences are pretty straight forward.
The completed video will still need editing and cropping post VDub.
I hope that helps, and even makes sense, as mentioned, typing this from memory over a 5am coffe before heading out for a long day filming.
good luck, if you can't get the program to capture, my only suggestion is to watch stans video posted a day or two ago, step by step, the bit where he startes it running, worked for me after a couple of goes.
setting the resolution to max was the thing I forgot to set and thus not getting a proper image of the frame in the gate on my live preview
top tip see if you can find a 30 second strip of unwanted film to scan with, over and over, until you get the entire process working well, spend a couple of days perfecting your workflow, rather than trying to scan an entire reel at this early stage.
That way you can work with with jpg and or tiff files to get an idea of file sizes, quality, and the amount of storage space it will be eating up....
I may be wrong but I think tiff files are better for colour correction but they will be enormous compared to jpg.
I don't think jpg files have the same colour profile, I may be wrong, perhaps someone else has more info on this subject.
[ October 16, 2019, 08:14 AM: Message edited by: Mike Spice ]
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