Originally posted by Corys:
Hello,
I have a few old family clips on 8mm that I have had converted to digital..
the quality isn't that great, lots of scratches/lines..
I was wondering what would be involved to clean the footage up..
is it a task so monumental that I wouldn't want to touch it?
i'm not even sure the process to do it, do I have to dump each frame as a picture and clean it up in photoshop then recombine?
pretty much a video newbie so any help or suggestions would be appreciated..
Thanks!
BTW: there is only have 4 minutes of total video I would like to work on, so it's not a ton of footage.
The thing to bear in mind is the cost involved worth what is on the film.
The pro way is a process called wet gate printing (there are a few variations to this) wear-by the film is run through a liquid with the same refractive index as film emulsion filling in the scratches and exposed onto another unexposed film roll. But this cost, but might still be worth investigating.
Then there's the wipe method to remove surface junk, whilst being careful not to create anymore scratches.
But since you've already transferred your film the only way is to use digital post-production tools. The main technique is to use the same tool that's used to perform wire removals in movies. This is a manual process. They way they remove the wires holding up a stuntman can also be used to remove scratches, but it's much more time consuming with scratches since there are like to be many more "lines" and are random.
Don't know of any cheap app that does this. I think there's an After Affects plug in which does, can't remember if AE has it built in. Commotion does, and I suspect Combustion, Shake and so on.
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