LaserSoft Imaging

I'm new at Silverfast, but am knowledgable with other scanning and photo-software. I'm trying to scan a whole roll of film using JobManager (JM), but it's not responding intuitively to me. Here's my workflow:
- I set the negative-type and do a prescan.
- I use the offset-tool to center the image in the frame.
- I start JM and click the Add all frames-button
- I do a prescan of the whole roll of film and after a while they are all prescanned and visible as thumbnails.
- I select all thumbnails to go into the JM

So far so good, but I now want to be able to change the settings per frame, like cropping area, etc. But when I select a frame in JM and select Edit, I can change the options, like DPI, output, etc, but the image is NOT visible in the screen. So how the ---- am I supposed to select a cropping area, when the prescan is not visible?? SF made all the prescans, so they must be on memory somewhere, but why doesn't it display them?
Bug in SF or am I doing anything wrong??
Now I just manually (!) have set the cropping fields of all the frames to the maximum size and I'll edit it afterwards in Photoshop. But there must be a better way than this?!

Anyone have any tips??

Dear JvDBosch,

please let me know which scanner and which SilverFast you are using and I will try to verify whether this is a bug.

For now it sounds like you are doing the right thing.

Best,

JAN

Dear Jan,

I'm using the newest version of Silverfast with a Reflecta Proscan 4000 (just got the software 2 days ago brandnew).

Thanks for your help!

Jaap

Dear JvDBosch,

in fact a real prescan wasn't done for every image of the film, but only a small thumbnail scan, which isn't good enough for the preview window. As a real prescan takes time and you might only want to change things which don't need the prescan (like changing the resolution), a prescan isn't done automatically when entering the JM edit mode. Please press the Prescan button while in JM edit mode to get the Prescan done.

Best regards
Ralf

Thanks for the info. Is it possible to change an option in Silverfast so that it does make a full prescan of each frame and you can then select cropping frames, etc and after that make all the scans automatically? Because if I have to make a prescan each time it takes so much time...
And if that's not possible, then please implement it in the next version, if possible.