Thank you very much for allowing me to join the forum. I’m hoping someone can provide me with some answers on how I might cut down or eliminate dust from getting into the film gate while I’m digitizing a huge collection of 8mm films. I have repurposed a Revere 8mm projector as a telecine, and I have a LUMIX G85 in place as my destination source. I won’t go into describing the system of electronics that makes the telecine function. All I’ll say is that it works very well. I’m able to capture almost a full-frame image and the resulting video is very workable. The system is almost “set it and forget it”, and because I’m using a mirrorless camera, I can capture the film much quicker than if I were using a regular DSLR.
The big problem I have is trying to keep dust out of the film gate while I’m capturing the 8mm film. I ran a 400’ reel through the telecine yesterday, and upon examining the individual images, everything looked perfect until I got half-way into reviewing the images. A huge hair or piece of dust had suddenly accumulated in the bottom frame and remained there for the rest of the digitizing process. I have several small fans cooling the electronics, and even a blower fan directing a concentrated stream of air at the film just before it enters the film gate. I even have a tiny fan pulling air away from the film gate to try and keep the dust out. The entire setup is in an enclosed cabinet that has been meticulously cleaned and is always wiped down before another film is ran through the telecine. Each film is cleaned prior to it being digitized. Unfortunately, this annoyance occurs more often than I like.
I supposed once I import the thousands of images into Premiere Pro I could run the offending footage through Boris FX Mocha Pro to “detect and remove” the dust, but that will take countless hours of tracking and rendering to accomplish. If anyone has solved this ever-present problem, or has a better way of addressing it, I would greatly appreciate the feedback.
Thanks much.,
Aaron
The big problem I have is trying to keep dust out of the film gate while I’m capturing the 8mm film. I ran a 400’ reel through the telecine yesterday, and upon examining the individual images, everything looked perfect until I got half-way into reviewing the images. A huge hair or piece of dust had suddenly accumulated in the bottom frame and remained there for the rest of the digitizing process. I have several small fans cooling the electronics, and even a blower fan directing a concentrated stream of air at the film just before it enters the film gate. I even have a tiny fan pulling air away from the film gate to try and keep the dust out. The entire setup is in an enclosed cabinet that has been meticulously cleaned and is always wiped down before another film is ran through the telecine. Each film is cleaned prior to it being digitized. Unfortunately, this annoyance occurs more often than I like.
I supposed once I import the thousands of images into Premiere Pro I could run the offending footage through Boris FX Mocha Pro to “detect and remove” the dust, but that will take countless hours of tracking and rendering to accomplish. If anyone has solved this ever-present problem, or has a better way of addressing it, I would greatly appreciate the feedback.
Thanks much.,
Aaron
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