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Making archival material look better.
I am finishing a film with extensive archival material. Some of it is really ugly looking. Who knows how many iterations removed from the original it is, shot poorly and then I convert it to HD! Yuck. I fully realize their is a greater latitude for archival material in a doc; but anyone have any tips on making it look a little better? Obviously I have CC’d it, applied noise reduction, deinterlaced, applied minor blurs.
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Yeah its seems that beside some effects and maybe some color correction if you can, their is not much to do because their is no real miracle with bad quality footage…other wise it would be to easy.
Good luck in your work.
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In some ways the ugly look can help give it a historical look and feel.
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Garbage in, garbage out. If your source is many generations of dubbing and copying old, then there is nothing much that can be done. Getting as clean of a copy as you can is the best way to get the best quality. Then to upconvert that from SD to HD via hardware, or darn good software (AE and a long weekend) would be the way to go.
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Is there a good reason to deinterlace? You are further reducing resolution by deinterlacing.
FCP is not renowned for its internal scaling. I have used Video Purifier from Innobits to both denoise and rescale.I can also rescale on capture with the Kona3 card but if the archive arrives as a file, I use Video Purifier.
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