[Frameworks] stabilizing a scan using the sprocket holes? (Davinci Resolve or Avid?)

[Jeff Kreines]

Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
jeff at kinetta.com
kinetta.com

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> On May 29, 2024, at 6:46 AM, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> What WERE they scanning them on?  A line scanner should be able to take
> some pretty awful splices.
> --scott

And it will typically distort the geometry of the frame several frames away from the bad splice because the encoder sprocket reading out the scan lines is typically offset from the aperture by up to a foot.  Frame height will vary.  Called the “waterfall effect.”

That’s why line scan scanners like the Spirit or Rank or Scanity have big problems with any splices and with shrunken film. 

An area scan scanner may jump at a bad splice but if overscanned that’s easily fixed in Resolve.