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After some good success shooting B&W 9.5mm film, I tried expired 16mm colour movie film with a plan to cut down 16mm to 9.5mm later, but after 6 "fails" developing colour I gave up.
This week I tried the free and rather amazing software Deoldify, which colourises images in seconds using deep AI. It works on video too so today I tried it on some of my 9.5mm film and the first results are promising.
This is a short 9.5mm B&W film of my nephews, shot with a hand cranked 1923 Pathe Baby camera, and also a brief clip at the end, shot with a different Pathe Baby with the camo motordrive attachment, bucket developed in my shed (Results previously posted here and on my blog
https://9point5mm.blogspot.com/2020/...athe-baby.html).
The film is long expired 1960s stock which is very grainy. The colourising was done with 3 different render settings. Higher settings work better on good quality film, but with low quality film such as this, lower setting work better, it seems.
Top left was rendered at 37, Top right at 22, and bottom at 11. The 11 setting produces brighter results which don't "grey out" with movement so much as the high setting rendering. More tests to come!
Link to the video:
https://youtu.be/jfJbMFjBuIs
This week I tried the free and rather amazing software Deoldify, which colourises images in seconds using deep AI. It works on video too so today I tried it on some of my 9.5mm film and the first results are promising.
This is a short 9.5mm B&W film of my nephews, shot with a hand cranked 1923 Pathe Baby camera, and also a brief clip at the end, shot with a different Pathe Baby with the camo motordrive attachment, bucket developed in my shed (Results previously posted here and on my blog
https://9point5mm.blogspot.com/2020/...athe-baby.html).
The film is long expired 1960s stock which is very grainy. The colourising was done with 3 different render settings. Higher settings work better on good quality film, but with low quality film such as this, lower setting work better, it seems.
Top left was rendered at 37, Top right at 22, and bottom at 11. The 11 setting produces brighter results which don't "grey out" with movement so much as the high setting rendering. More tests to come!
Link to the video:
https://youtu.be/jfJbMFjBuIs