Educate this newbie about old film to dvd conversion

[rakun]

hi

Ive always been fascinated with the ability of professional production
companies to convert old film to quality crystal clear picture dv-discs.

Mostly im wondering what software(s) is/are used to do this. All i know from my little
experience that there are no magics in this area, garbage in-garbage out...

Im not only asking for general knowledge, im interested in learning what
is available out there for improving dramaticly the quality of the picture.

thanks.

[BJ_M]

da Vinci systems Revival
DIAMANT software systems
Lowry digital botox
Red Giant Film Fix
Cineric’s Cinebase

final restoration is often done by hand in photoshop = sometimes frame by frame ("M" was done mostly by hand , 18,000 frames one at a time in PS) .

film is scanned through a wet gate after cleaning and removing splices, ussually at 4k resolution, sometimes at other resolutions (6k for 70mm, 2k for 16mm) .......

it can cost a lot of money, film fix is about the cheapest software - you can spend several million also , including nessessary scanning and/or da Vinci scan hardware (or other scanners such as the ARRI film scanner)

[BJ_M]

p.s. a lot of it is magic and great skill

[SingSing]

They look good, because they are re-matsered from the original that only the studios have.

[BJ_M]

They look good, because they are re-matsered from the original that only the studios have.

this is not true quite often

[edDV]

Consider it a high capital, high skill specialist business. Not much credible amateur action in film restoration.

Segmentation by skill.
1. military recon/crime forensics labs
2. the specialist houses servicing the movie/tv industry (usually small businesses)
3. mid-range (professional) film to tape transfer + high end consumer businesses
4. consumer rip off houses ("8mm to DVD"). DVD is not what you want for a master unless it's progressive data.
5. Consumer efforts, shoot video on the wall, mirrors and lenses etc.

[rakun]

thank you.

[choirislife923]

5. Consumer efforts, shoot video on the wall, mirrors and lenses etc.

lol, that brings back memories...

one time, my high school biology teacher showed us a vhs tape of a cartoon about evolution a former teacher had recorded from film by simply fixing a camcorder onto the wall and projecting the 8mm reel onto the wall...it was obvious the teacher did it while school was in session; on the tape, you can hear the class dismissal bells and the hallway clatter that follows!

it worked, but the flicker (recording a 24 FPS film onto 29.97 FPS NTSC) was horrible...