Cleaning up an old movie.......

[poolplayr]

I got an old movie the kind with no sound and the flickering through out it and I read about the MSU old film recovery which looks awesome but you cant download the filter however is there another plugin like this one out there i could use instead?

[redwudz]

A good place to start would be Virtualdub. There are a lot of filters to play with and more can be found at:http://neuron2.net/

If you capture the film as an AVI then take a small representative segment of a minute or two and experiment with some filtering, you should be able to make improvements. Don't expect miracles, the pros have very expensive equipment to play with to get to the finished product.

[sacajaweeda]

Yeah I would think you want to be capturing to AVI and use a TBC. Use the best player you can to get the best output quality and flicker reduction. Try it in different ones if you can. Then once you have it capped (uncompressed AVI if you have the space) start playing with some sample clips of your source using VirtualDubMod & AviSynth using different filters, etc. Cleaning up old stuff is a pain in the ass but sometimes you can get pretty decent results. I like using the Dust & MSharp filters for AviSynth for a lot of the old VHS stuff I had that I restored & backed up to DVD. The Tweak settings for adjusting brightness, contrast & saturation levels are useful also. I like the AviSynth - VDubMod combo because you can preview your filters as you change them in your script editor by just hitting the F5 key. Slow going restoring this stuff though, but it's worth it.

[NamPla]

I'm no expert on this, but doesn't it sound like he needs some kind of "inverse telecine" on this? Progressive frames?

If it's just video noise, I know as a fact that Avisynth's Convolution3D plus TMPGEnc's Sharpener does WONDERS.

[housepig]

sounds like he's talking about an old silent film... which means it's probably going to be quite a job fixing any flicker...

[poolplayr]

Thanks all for the input. Yes it is an old silent film. The reading for these tools are pretty intence and my bookmarks have quadrupled. I diffently have alot to learn!

[NamPla]

I think Housepig is right. If they could remove that "flicker" from old silent films, they would've done it before it hit TV/video/DVD whatever. It's just part of the old nostalgic "package". I think they shot at less than 18fps back then in the '10s & '20s... The human eye needs more than that to give the illusion of fluid "motion".