Digitizing and post processing a 16mm film at Case Western Reserve University's Digitization Annex

At the Digitization Annex of the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University, we recently acquired a Retroscan Universal Mark II for digitizing film. This video is an overview and sample of how we used to to digitize a 16mm sound film and converting the audio using AEO Light 2. We get our leader and splices from Urbanski Film.
Final film:
High Voltage Electron Microscope Facility - Olin Materials Center 1970
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[@jaredx2]

um? I’m gonna stop replying to these condescending comments now. Have a good one.

[@frame_by_frame]

16mm film has incredible resolution, 2048 x 1536 for the full film (looks like about 2 frames vertical) is quite low, specially now that 4K displays are everywhere.

[@recumbentjohn]

John, Need your input/opinion for massive restoration project, thank you

[@matthewboyd4638]

Jared, I am in need of scanning/digitizing about 2 hours of 16mm from 1955 for a documentary. Is this something I can hire you to do, or is there someone you recommend for a high-quality scan? I've already spoken to a few people who do this, but thought you might have a more refined opinion. Thanks

[@SkySim]

Great educational video!

[@robfriedrich2822]

I'm at the start and wonder, if it would possible to digitize the picture frame by frame, digitize the sound and to synch both.

[@speakeasyarchives8764]

Im surprised you didnt get a good scanner for true archiving of film.

[@markjob6354]

Jarod, that was an awesome demonstration. I'm intrigued how the AEO Light Free Software reads and processess the 16 mm Optical Soundtrack. The transfer image quality seems to be quite good.

[@tbmpvideo]

Jared. thank you for your excellent work creating this demo. I have the same machine - Roger makes some incredible gear. I noticed you rethreaded the film for the rewind process. I just skip that and thread it under the scanner elements. Do you rethread for any reason I should know about? Also, I see you are are using the auto feature. Do you normally use this with good results in post on most films or was this for the demo? Once again, fantastic job and a contribution to the community of users. I liked the splicer demo - I have been using film cement with often bad results. I learned something. Terry in Seattle

[@orangebetsy]

That was tremendous.

[@jayvadgama5663]

Excellent video. Thank you very much.

[@clarkkellogg3243]

Thank you for posting,this is a great demo. What if I have 16mm film that has magnetic sound?

[@RickGreenPhoto]

How long do you cut your head and tail?