I believe the border setting is only to zoom in a bit so that no clear parts of the film are included in calculating the conversion, it is not an actual crop of the image in conversion. This can be changed if you have larger areas of border. Areas that are not part of the image should be gone with the border setting or else you may get an inaccurate conversion.
I find that you should find a well exposed frame, something not all dark or light, average and use that to set the exposure. There is usually no need to adjust. Some recommend to overexpose slightly maybe 1/3-2/3 stop. If there are very large differences in the films exposure you probably should adjust those frames a bit to get them close. Sometimes NLP will give a message saying it sees large exposure variance so it will not use exposure data. It just means you problem have large changes in the lighting within your roll of film.
White balance does not matter on the scanning process, just use daylight. Once loaded into lightroom, use the white balance dropper and reset it on the edge of the film or any area that is even color.
Jul 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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