ARRISCAN XT

Dry Gates

Damaged material and unusual frame heights are common challenges for archive scanning. With an aperture that is not only wider, but also taller than a standard 35 mm or 16 mm, the gate has enough headroom to allow frames to be stabilized during or after scanning. Severely damaged film can be scanned with ease, as can non-standard film formats with unusually tall frame sizes.

Wet Gate system

Although digital restoration is becoming increasingly prominent in the archive world, heavily scratched film still presents big obstacles and can be expensive to repair digitally. By using a special liquid to conceal dust and scratches, the ARRISCAN XT Wet Gate system offers a solution that is more organic than digital retouching and far more honest to the original material.

Any ARRISCAN XT can be retrofitted with the Wet Gate system. After initial installation, the machine can be switched from normal to Wet Gate scanning as easily as a changeover from 35 mm to 16 mm.

16 MM WET GATE FEATURES:

• Pin-registered 16 mm Wet Gate
• 0.4 mm maximum film thickness
• 2 fps – 3 fps scanning speed, depending on liquid and film condition
• 13.2 mm x 10 mm oversized aperture

35 MM WET GATE FEATURES:

• Pinless 35 mm Wet Gate
• 0.4 mm maximum film thickness
• 1 fps – 2 fps scanning speed depending on liquid and film condition
• 34.5 mm x 21.9 mm oversized aperture

The Image to Sound Tools is a unique system designed for ARRISCAN XT to decode and digitize the optical sound on films. The package of specialized software extracts the optical soundtrack, and converts it into digital audio. Scanning parameters are usually selected for the image properties, so the system is equipped with a suite of tools that improves sound quality from scans. 

The system’s biggest advantage is its ability to playback audio directly from image files in real time. The audio playback, or looped playback, allows restorers to quickly set the optimum performance parameters for digitization, even when a soundtrack is damaged.