Is there really any point to digitizing 16mm film to 4k, instead of 1080p? The initial quality of 16mm film is so bad, I don't see how 1080p is really limiting.
I figured that since the scanners had that option, I'd just take it for starters and find out myself if the FHD version I'd process looked worse or not. It wasn't that much more expensive.
I also got the ProRes lossless format (345 GB) rather than having them compress it for a similar reason. I compressed it with ffmpeg on my computer and am pretty sure it looks fine with h264. If I do more of the I may still ask for ProRes, compress myself, and then discard the ProRes files if it works ok.
