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restoring/remastering old film footage – tips?
Ive recently been given the oppertunity to work on documentary that involves restoring some degraded footage thats around a century old and quite important historically. Its already been transfered to digital (not sure how well…) so im guessing its just a matter of putting it into photoshop and going through frame by frame and touching them up.
Im quite confident that i can do this but have never attempted it before and some tips would be useful… If there and any good plugins i should know about or guide on the net you could direct me to i will be eternally grateful 🙂
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I don’t know what your budget is, but Imagineer’s Mokey claims to be very good at this sort of thing. Of course it’s an entirely different tool, so in addition to the prohibitive cost there would be that tough learning curve.
https://www.imagineersystems.com/products/mokey/
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA -
Cheers for that, ive checked this out and it does indeed look very handy! Ill probably end up using that.
If i did only have AE/photoshop what would be the way to go about it? This footage will be VERY degraded and i may have to go through it frame by frame. Is tackling it in photoshop a common way of cleaning it up in the industry or do they rely on my more specialized equipment?
Im my head tackling each frame as an image and touching up seems kinda right.
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Hi there,
I just wanted to say that if you still have the original footage, it will be much easier to get a higher quality transfer than touching up each frame. You need to make sure that the company transferring your film scans it properly rather than projecting it on to a screen and filming it with a camcorder.
There are a few companies that will do this for you:
https://www.cinetodvdtransfer.co.uk/
https://www.maxcommunications.co.uk/blog.html
https://www.savethosememories.co.uk/newsHope this helps.
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