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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted December 04, 2014 11:44 AM

Hey everybody.

I have a classic 30's era film that is in desperate need for a film restoration (lots of scratches white marks ect on it), and I really don't have much of a budget. If there are freewares, I'll have to try them first, but if there are other good low cost programs for the PC out there, I'd love to know.

I thank you for your time.

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Janice Glesser
Film Goddess

Posts: 3468
From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2011

posted December 04, 2014 02:47 PM

Osi ... I've had very good results using the free Avisynth scripts with VirtualDub.

Here is a sample restoration I did on 16mm home movies from 1947.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqQfz4ccvy8

I used scripts written by VideoFred downloaded from this link:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=144271

[ December 04, 2014, 04:22 PM: Message edited by: Janice Glesser ]

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John Hourigan
Master Film Handler

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From: Colorado U.S.A.
Registered: Sep 2003

posted December 04, 2014 10:36 PM

Wow -- impressive!

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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted December 06, 2014 01:52 PM

Janice ...

Does it allow for scratch repair as well as white speck repair, frame by frame?

What I'm going to work on is an early 30's film that the original negative material is not available, so I'm going to clean up the best copy that I have found of this film I like a lot.

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Janice Glesser
Film Goddess

Posts: 3468
From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2011

posted December 06, 2014 02:10 PM

Yes Osi... you can set parameters to adjust the amount of cleanup. If you haven't used Avisynth scripts and Vdub before...there is a bit of a learning curve...but the results are worth the effort. Good luck!

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Osi Osgood
Film God

Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted December 09, 2014 01:39 PM

Many thanks Janice!!

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