VueScan, Mac, Multiple frames at a time

[oscroft]

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere - I did a search and all I could find were old threads talking about previous versions of VueScan that are different to my 9.5.27.

I want to find out how to scan multiple negatives at a time from strips, but all I can get it to do is one neg at a time (and it takes a far longer time than the EpsonScan software, but that's not important right now).

The discussions I can find talk about using the "Batch" options under the Input tab, but my version of VueScan doesn't have "Batch" anywhere that I can see.

The reason I'm doing this is to help a friend who has just upgraded to a new Mac with the newest OS, only to find that his Epson 3200 is no longer supported and EpsonScan no longer works.

Can anyone please help?

Thanks in advance,

 

[kxl]

From Vuescan Release notes:

http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#changes

If this doesn't answer your question, you may want to send an email to Ed Hamrick.


Scanning Roll of Film

If you're scanning many frames from the same roll of film, the following procedure will optimally set the CCD exposure and film base color (i.e. mask color):

Set "Input|Options" to "Advanced"
Set "Input|Media type"
Insert film with most transparent area
If "Input|Lock exposure" visible
Clear "Input|Lock exposure"
Press "Preview" button
Adjust cropping if necessary
If "Input|Lock exposure" visible
Set "Input|Lock exposure"
Press "Preview" button
If "Input|Lock film base color" visible
Set "Input|Lock film base color"
Batch Scanning

To scan multiple images in a batch, set "Input|Batch scan" to "All" to scan all frames in a device, or set it to "List" and type in the list of frames (i.e. "4 3 1" for frames 4, 3 and 1, in that order).

 

[Godfrey]

From Vuescan Release notes:

http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#changes

If this doesn't answer your question, you may want to send an email to Ed Hamrick.


Scanning Roll of Film

If you're scanning many frames from the same roll of film, the following procedure will optimally set the CCD exposure and film base color (i.e. mask color):

Set "Input|Options" to "Advanced"
Set "Input|Media type"
Insert film with most transparent area
If "Input|Lock exposure" visible
Clear "Input|Lock exposure"
Press "Preview" button
Adjust cropping if necessary
If "Input|Lock exposure" visible
Set "Input|Lock exposure"
Press "Preview" button
If "Input|Lock film base color" visible
Set "Input|Lock film base color"
Batch Scanning

To scan multiple images in a batch, set "Input|Batch scan" to "All" to scan all frames in a device, or set it to "List" and type in the list of frames (i.e. "4 3 1" for frames 4, 3 and 1, in that order).

The options to scan in batches works well with Nikon Coolscan V and Super Coolscan 9000 film scanners but I haven't yet found a way to scan batches with an Epson flat bed scanner. Scanning a roll of film in one go with a flatbed scanner means, essentially, stepping the VueScan capture frame*(cropping) through the scanner's input area in an automated manner through the grid of negatives held by a negative carrier.

If you know of a way to do that, I'll be delighted to hear it. The page you pointed to does not suggest anything of that sort that I can find.

G

 

[kxl]

If you know of a way to do that, I'll be delighted to hear it. The page you pointed to does not suggest anything of that sort that I can find.

G

G - Something like this? Scroll down to the Vuescan section. I used to do this when I shot medium format and had Doug Fisher's (betterscanning) film holder and ANR glass insert. Worked quite well. But I've never done it for 35mm since my Coolscan 5000 is obviously much more convenient for 35mm. BTW, thanks for the tips re: saving scanned negs to DNG (which I'm doing now).

http://www.betterscanning.com/scanning/batchscanning.html


Good luck!

-Keith

 

[oscroft]

Thanks folks, I'll try that and see how it goes...

Problem is, my Input tab does not have a "Batch scan" option - that's what all the stuff I already found tells me to do, but it's just not there.

Here's my Input tab contents...

"Input|Options" doesn't have "Advanced" either, just "Basic", "Standard" and "Professional", none of which offers "Batch scan".

 

[oscroft]

Actually, just a thought - is it likely that the Trial version doesn't do batch processing?

 

[brbo]

I just tried it on my Epson 4990 (I don't normally batch scan):

Vuescan got all 24 frames. Not perfectly aligned but if you set Crop - Border (%) to something like 3-5% I'm sure you will get all the picture area in the scan (or just untick "Auto offset" and manually adjust the position of the frames)...

 

[oscroft]

I just tried it on my Epson 4990 ...

As you can see, my Input tab isn't the same as yours - yours has the "Batch scan" and mine doesn't.

I am using a trial version, as I'm not going to pay for it without seeing if and how well batch scanning works first.

(Please note I'm trying it with my V700 first, before I head over to my friend's and try it with his 3200).

 

[oscroft]

Aha, I've got it!

In the Crop tab I have to select a "Multi crop" option before "Batch scan" appears under the Input tab!

 

[Mudman]

Alan I just had the same "fun" with my Epson V700 and Vuescan. Once you get it figured out it's not so bad. Make sure to check each crop though; it gets close, but a lot of times I have to reshape it to actually hit the negative fully.

 

[oscroft]

Thanks for the help and the tips, folks - it's doing batch scans successfully now.

The cropping is indeed a little bit off, so I'll have to do some tweaking. The scanning is very slow compared to other scanning software I've tried, but the first sample images do look pretty good.

 

[Godfrey]

Aha, I've got it!

In the Crop tab I have to select a "Multi crop" option before "Batch scan" appears under the Input tab!

Interesting! I'll check that out when I get home. I have two flatbed scanners I'm using ... an Epson 2450 and an HP Multifunction ... so I'll take a look to see what they do.

Just a thought, why not scan the whole strip of film in one file and crop the individual images from it later in Photoshop or Lightroom (even better)?
...

This works best with scanners that have a full page wide negative scanning area.

My old 2450 can only scan about a two-three negative strip set this way. I've done it, it seemed a little clumsy. But yes, it does work.

G

 

[oscroft]

Just a thought, why not scan the whole strip of film in one file and crop the individual images from it later in Photoshop or Lightroom (even better)?

Interesting idea, but the image processing software I use (GraphicConverter) tends not to like enormous files too much - I don't have Photoshop or Lightroom. Also, I'm evaluating it for a friend whose computer skills aren't great, so the simplest workflow to a set of individual frames is what I really want.