The power of Avisynth post processing

[VideoFred]

I have posted an example clip on Vimeo to show you all the incredible power of Avisynth.

http://www.vimeo.com/2823934

The example clip is showing the result of a special film restoring script I have made.

The filmtransfer itself was done by me, but that film needs a second wetgate transfer.

There was a dirt spot on the CCD from my camera too. But that's easy enough to fix.

I just could not wait to show you all these first results.

Fred.

[StoneBuilder]

Astounding !

[granfer]

Superb! Most of all I envy you the ability to understand and configure (program?) Avisynth. I've made a number of attempts to fathom it; but I don't speak "computer greek". Perhaps I'm just too old and analog saturated.

Granfer

[aj]

Nice images, certainly great improvement over the raw footage. Was it filmed with anamorphic in 1958?

Visited the Atomium last december. Looks nice and shiny again after the restoration. Too bad so many expo houses were demoslished after the ending. So many wel designed and beautifully built structures. The trains would make a nice attraction nowadays Nobody has a TEE locomotive left?

[VideoFred]

Thank you all for the positive feedback so far!

@André: yes, it was filmed with an anamorphic lens in 1958. An Iscomorphot. The author still has all his equipment and I have made him an adapter so he can use the same lens on his newer 1980's Noris projector.

The author is 80 years old now and he is going to give me all his footage. Of cource he knows I will take great care of it.

Fred.

[bulldogpictures]

Hi Fred,

It's really AMAZING !
You have reached the Top of DIY transfer !

Kind regards,
Rob.

[paul]

Great Job Fred! I'm impressed!

Paul

[CelluloidDisco]

Fred, I have been following your clips on Vimeo, and the quality of your work is truly amazing!

[VideoFred]

Thank you all so far for the very kind words. :oops:

But of cource nothing is perfect and you can say what could be improved. For example: is this still the film look for you? Am I not overdoing things?

Fred.

[reflex]

Wow, Fred. That's beautiful.

[VideoFred]

I'm in a creative mood today.

I have added a second comparison clip on Vimeo:
http://www.vimeo.com/2827387

This time a recent E64T film I have made in the summer of 2007 in my garden. Realy exellent processing by Richard from Nanolab.

Please tell me if my denoising/sharpening looks like overkill to you.

Fred.

[MIKI-814]

SIMPLY UNBELIEVABLE!

Have you ever thought of doing this as a business?? Your transfers are by far the best I've seen in small format...

[aj]

Thank you all so far for the very kind words. :oops:

But of cource nothing is perfect and you can say what could be improved. For example: is this still the film look for you? Am I not overdoing things?

Fred.

That might indeed be a feature if you take it too far. It looks very much like professional documentary footage. Not always the best. Nice for home-movie of the past people who just want it as beautiful as possible. Others may want to retain some of the look of projected film to keep the ambience of the movie-evenings of the past or to have graininess as an artist's choice.

Here the telecine on the samples is well done but it still looks like film. http://www.retroroadtrips.com/ Which is important if you want to connect to the feel of the past time or the projected film.

[supa8]

Great Job. How did you manage to sharpen the footage to such an extent. Is it just the auto levels feature? Would the same work on Final Cut or Premiere?

[VideoFred]

Hello Supa8,

The very heavy degraining makes it possible to apply this amount of sharpening.

The sharpener is very special. It's a so called Avisynth function made by a very talended man: Didée. The name of the function is LimitedSharpen(). It's in the name: it sharpens, but limited. It is looking for the edges. It is using internal upscaling/downscaling too. Downscaling after sharpening can realy make an image look a lot better. After LimitedSharpen, I apply some unsharp mask too, in 3 steps: big radius first.(I have learned this trick from an expert)

Fred.