Once you hit that “scan” button, there’s no going back. It’s so much more efficient and more enjoyable to capture all of the underlying image first, and then be able to edit your negatives as a group anytime you want. Having to edit and adjust each image preview before capture is exactly the WRONG way to be doing it. While Epson Scan can do a good job working with your scanner to capture the underlying film negative, you may have found that there are some MAJOR headaches with a workflow that fully relies on Epson Scan: (If not you can always download it along with the drivers you need from the Epson website for your particular Epson scanner, like this Epson V600 downloads page.) I prefer this method to scanning the whole strip and cropping individual frames since not every frame is worth keeping and I can have serially numbered keepers without having to rename the files.If you’re using an Epson scanner to scan your color or black and white film negatives, chances are that your scanner came with the “Epson Scan” software. I tried using VueScan, but I could not get the dizzying number of options to work for me within a reasonable period of time. Delete any unwanted and then select All before scanning. Then duplicate the frame, move it and repeat. After the preview, a marquee frame of that size appears next to the images. I set and locked the image size to 28x28mm. This helps to keep the film (convex side down) from popping up over the ledge of the cardboard. I attached a strip of heavy paper as long as four frames to the right edge with just enough overlap to cover the sprocket edges. I made a cardboard strip 3.5" wide and 12" long and attached it with masking tape to the left edge of the bed. 
I am using a V500 photo with the Epson software (updated to 3.74A) in "professional" mode. These are 30+ year old photos that initially were not of super high quality, so I am not worried about perfectly exact framing or film curl.
As Jack Fisher noted, one needs to delineate each frame manually. Just found some old 126 film strips and this was helpful.
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