[anjc]

I also restored some Super 8 footage recently and had great success. The biggest win I had wasn't resolution, but slowing down the speed to be correct in DaVinci, and interpolating frames to make it 60fps using the RIFE algorithm in FlowFrames. I then used Film9 to remove shake, colour-correct, sharpen and so on.

Correcting the speed and interpolating frames added an amazing amount of detail that wasn't perceptible to me in the originals (albeit it was there).

All of this processing does remove some of the charm of the medium, so I'll be keeping the original scans in any case.

[dreamcompiler]

How did you do the original scanning? I have a ton of Super 8 that needs to be scanned.

[anjc]

I bought one of the cheapish (€300) Super 8/8mm scanners on Amazon. It scans quite quickly while displaying the results on a small screen.

It's a nice convenient device, but I can't now unsee the artifacting and compression arising from it. If I were to do it again I'd just pay a service to scan properly, or build a rig to photograph the frames.

On the other hand, I'm very pleased to have scanned and archived the films given that they've been unseen for so long and can now be shared easily.