Hello to all Saraff.Twain fans,
I have setup a project (named CineStripScanner) to scan cine film strips. This are 5 to 20 cm long snippets of a cine film ( 8mm, 9.5 mm Pathé, 16 mm) in order to digitize these cine films (footage mainly recorded by amateurs - most of them using Super 8 or Regular 8 film material).
The part of the program suite, that deals with the digitization and video generation already works perfectly since several years. ( See http://hosting.aktionspotenzial.de/CineToVidWiki/index.php/Hauptseite ) and there was also a program to support strip scanning. But with the advent of Windows 10 (32 and 64 Bits) this program (called ScanController) did not work anymore and we found no way to activate it under Windows 10. The problem is the native scanner driver (e.g. from Epson or other manufacturers). There is no way to evaluate several internals, which are needed to allow their exploitation.
When I started the project I did some surveys to find out what software might be needed to achieve the goal. There was MS WIA, TwainForC# from the Twain Working group and finally SARAFF.Twain.
First attempt was to exploit TwainForC#. But severe problems came up und the TWAIN Working Group was not really responsive. So I had a look at WIA, But WIA seemed to be not very well supported using C# and .NET as a conveniant development platform.
So I finally switched to SARAFF.Twain - and this was an excellent decission.
I up to this moment was a real novice in the TWAIN domain and I had several problems.
But a very big compliment to SARAFF. He is very responsive and provided all the required information - so I am currently in the situation, that the individual GUI I designed for my project is almost completed ( a few minor errors, but nothing severe).
All envisaged functions of the CineStripScanner related to scanning work well.
SARAFF.TWAIN provided all the needed functions in the SARAFF.TWAIN Package.
Again congratulations.
And this is a list of the offered functions of the CineStripScanner:
Dialog to define the parameters needed for scanning - e.g.
I want to thank SARAFF a lot, that he was so patient with me - because I had for sure also some very silly questions. But again, I got the needed support almost immediately.
I wish SARAFF good luck and good success in carrying on this excellent project.
Wolfgang
[Image](http://wkurz.com/upload/Screenshot_05-GUI2set-scanning-and-transport-parameters.jpg
I have setup a project (named CineStripScanner) to scan cine film strips. This are 5 to 20 cm long snippets of a cine film ( 8mm, 9.5 mm Pathé, 16 mm) in order to digitize these cine films (footage mainly recorded by amateurs - most of them using Super 8 or Regular 8 film material).
The part of the program suite, that deals with the digitization and video generation already works perfectly since several years. ( See http://hosting.aktionspotenzial.de/CineToVidWiki/index.php/Hauptseite ) and there was also a program to support strip scanning. But with the advent of Windows 10 (32 and 64 Bits) this program (called ScanController) did not work anymore and we found no way to activate it under Windows 10. The problem is the native scanner driver (e.g. from Epson or other manufacturers). There is no way to evaluate several internals, which are needed to allow their exploitation.
When I started the project I did some surveys to find out what software might be needed to achieve the goal. There was MS WIA, TwainForC# from the Twain Working group and finally SARAFF.Twain.
First attempt was to exploit TwainForC#. But severe problems came up und the TWAIN Working Group was not really responsive. So I had a look at WIA, But WIA seemed to be not very well supported using C# and .NET as a conveniant development platform.
So I finally switched to SARAFF.Twain - and this was an excellent decission.
I up to this moment was a real novice in the TWAIN domain and I had several problems.
But a very big compliment to SARAFF. He is very responsive and provided all the required information - so I am currently in the situation, that the individual GUI I designed for my project is almost completed ( a few minor errors, but nothing severe).
All envisaged functions of the CineStripScanner related to scanning work well.
SARAFF.TWAIN provided all the needed functions in the SARAFF.TWAIN Package.
Again congratulations.
And this is a list of the offered functions of the CineStripScanner:
Dialog to define the parameters needed for scanning - e.g.
- desired resolution (must be between 3200 and 4800 dpi or even more)
- definition of scanning rectangle and rectangle position on the scaners pane.
- definition of the desired image format (bmp, png and jpg - jpg with quality setting)
- defining the target directory with the range of needed strip image file names
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defining the number of scans that have to be performed in a loop (several hundreds)
- the number of steps needed for moving the film foreward one strip
- the time delay between steps
- parameters to position the film in the scanner .
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and so on........
I want to thank SARAFF a lot, that he was so patient with me - because I had for sure also some very silly questions. But again, I got the needed support almost immediately.
I wish SARAFF good luck and good success in carrying on this excellent project.
Wolfgang
[Image](http://wkurz.com/upload/Screenshot_05-GUI2set-scanning-and-transport-parameters.jpg
