hi jordan,
i would say no. davinci is a great piece of software, but mainly for color correction/grading. originally
the whole restoration tools were a separate software software package, so called revival. they implemented
some small things from that software, like dust and scratch removal, but only to a certain extent. i never
used it, but i know it only works right now with dpx footage… davinci has great up-/downscaling algorithms
but if you also need deinterlacing, field-reversal stuff you can’t do this in a proper way. (unless you buy their
teranex unit, which can do some of those things).
i would say take a look at nucoda filmmaster, they are planning to make the software available for about
2000 dollars i’ve read lately. further investments in some of their plug-ins might be useful for restoration
work!
just my 2 cents, perhaps in the next version of davinci they will implement more restoration features,
would be useful, now that they have launched film-scanners, but for now…
andy