Revival

[Jack Jones]

I noticed this too, anyone able to expand?

I think this forum is going to start to get quite busy, very quickly!

[Joseph Owens]

Yes, it was moribund for so long, it was beginning to look like a mistake.

No longer.

jPo

This IS my blog!

[Gary Adams]

Revival software is offered in two versions. Revival and Revival Pro. Revival is similar to the older DaVinci base software which includes only manual tools for fixing frames. These include Region of Interest dirt and dust and Reveal Brush. Also include is manual splice repair and frame reconstruction. There are no automatic tools or specialty tools in Revival. Revival Pro is what was DaVinci “Revival Complete” which is all of the Revival automatic and interactive toolsets. Revival would be used when only manual frame by frame repairs are necessary. Revival Pro provides a complete set of both automatic and interactive specialty tools for repair of motion picture film. Revival currently runs on high performance PC hardware on the Linux Operating System. If you have further questions, feel free to see me at the Blackmagic Design boot at NAB or via garya@blackmagic-design.com.

This is my first post to this group and I trust I have not broken any rules.

Gary Adams
Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Arnie Schlissel]

Thanks for the info, Gary.

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Steve Macmillan]

As mentioned, Revival only runs under Linux and is a stand alone program and not a module within Resolve.

The demo at NAB was both impressive and concerning. They had before and after clips that were vastly improved, but not perfect. It seemed like either they could have gone a little further with the fixes or there were short comings. It seemed like stuff they had cleaned up would be harder to fix than the dirt that was still in the cleaned clips.

STeve

[Keith Rocheck]

I’ve been using the product for over a year now. I didn’t see the clips at NAB, but none of the film restoration products are perfect. Most shops doing a lot of restoration have workstations for Revival and a competitor product for that reason. I have PFClean in house.

I adore both of the products. As I’m budgeting I very easily can split the work between Revival and PFClean based on a ton of factors. I can even tell you which product’s automated dirt tool will handle a specific kind of dirt in a scene better. I may even want to run something through both to fix different things.

I’m not particularly fond of Revival’s destructive workflow, relative to a PFClean where I can get a list of every paint-stoke or piece of dirt it found and disable or delete those as needed. However, we’ve come up with interesting ways to fix some really hairy problems leveraging the destructive workflow to our advantage. I can honestly say there are some things I don’t know how I’d fix as quickly as I can without it.

Revival, in general, I think could fix almost anything I throw at it. I can’t say the same of PFClean, however, it can do some things faster or more efficiently on an operations level than Revival, though not necessarily better. At the time, PFClean gave us more bang for our buck, but if Revival’s pricing now starts at $1,495, if I built my shop today I may have done it differently.

[Pasupuleti Kumar]

Hi..

I want to know what is the price for both Revival and Revival Pro as on date??? i am getting different prices from all.. pl help me

[Gary Adams]

The posted prices at NAB for DaVinci Revival software is US$1495. DaVinci Revival Pro software is US$9995. Always a bit nervous to type prices for fear of a typo. Revival is the manual toolset and Revival Pro is the full automatic and interactive product.

With regards to the demo material. I was showing reels from actual customers with a wide variety of source material and restorations. Certainly the word “perfect” is difficult to achieve and the demos I had, definately had some scratch and remaining defects. Sometimes with archival material, many defects are left at the descretion of the archivist. For finished products like BluRay and DVD, the customer often doesn’t want to see any visible defects. Films 100 years old are, of course, difficult to be made to look like films today. It’s mostly about what the end customer wants to achieve and can pay for. I never wish to be decptive about demos. If there are any questions please feel free to contact me.

Gary Adams
Blackmagic Design

[Steinthor Birgisson]

Hi Gary

What about the compatibility of Resolve and Revival in terms of exchanging material/seguences?
Can Revival also be clustered via infiniband? If so, is there a further license fee involved? What video I/O boards are currently supported?

Many thanks

Steinthor Birgisson
Post-manager
The Engine Room
Reykjavik
Iceland

[Gary Adams]

All good questions. Revival and Resolve can easily share the same material when connected in a SAN type environment. Revival, in it’s current form can connect to a Pre Blackmagic Resolve database where the colorist can tag frames and sequences for repair. The new database in the BMD Resolve is not yet available to Revival since Revival is slightly behind in the development process. All in good time. Revival will indeed work in an infinibad environment just as easily as Ethernet. Using IB would move the bottleneck to CPUs, Bus, and Disk I/O probably. Be sure to weight the costs effectively. There are no license fees or costs for rendering in Revival any more. The user may add as many CPUs as desired without additional cost. I would be happy to discuss this further with anyone contacting me. Some processes may not benefit from lots of CPUs, while others may. Currently, only the DVS Centaurus family of Video I/O cards are supported with Revival as we are still running the DaVinci software. That, of course, may change in the near future.

Gary