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Restoration
how long does it typically take to do the film restoration using Davinci?
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This is completely content driven. Are you talking about using Revival or Resolve or both? Revival is BMD’s restoration specific tool… although in a major restoration job you may use both depending on what you are doing. Resolve has many tools that can be used for doing restoration.
I’ve done jobs that were 20 minutes of run time that took months. There have been other jobs that were feature length that took only a coulpe of weeks.
Budget usually drives the budget. A good operator can manually dust-bust a feature length AB reel in a few days. Using automation passes with manual can cut it down to less time. If there are warping issues or many frames that require manual reconstruction all bets are off.
The speed and quality are talent driven. If you have little or no experience then the learning curve will add to the time. Some types of processing such as RGB registration and stain removal can be time intensive. For instance I just finished a color registration fix on an entire feature and the processing took 2 1/2 weeks of processing time.
– Jonathon
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