How to fulfill the damaging picture?

[xuguang_he]

Just as the picture shows, the upper left corner is damaged badly. Other screen in this movie is OK, just this few seconds.

[jagabo]

I don't think that's damage but rather the corner of the film. If it's just a few seconds why bother "fixing" it? About the only thing I could recommend is overlaying the a shifted (up and left) version of the picture with an alpha mask.

[hech54]

Just as the picture shows, the upper left corner is damaged badly.

Is this a joke?

[xuguang_he]

I just thought that, since even logo on pictures can be covered (or to say "fixed") manually, why can't this kind of damaging edge?

[jagabo]

quick shift/mask/overlay:



Not great but a little better.

[xuguang_he]

I was afraid that the restoration to this few frame would have bad effect on other frames... Still lost in thoughts.

[jagabo]

I was afraid that the restoration to this few frame would have bad effect on other frames...

Trim()

[Selur]

I was afraid that the restoration to this few frame would have bad effect on other frames...

isn't that what ApplyRange(..) or trim(..) is ment for?

Cu Selur

Ps.: jagabo was faster

[jagabo]

But I forget to mention ApplyRange(). I was just about to add it when I saw your reply.

[Selur]

*gig*

[jagabo]

You can also use ReplaceFramesSimple().

[xuguang_he]

Thank your for your replying I'll get a try now.

[poisondeathray]

Is it a static background frame ? or does background move, or camera move ?

Since it's only a few seconds, you can probably inpaint / clone brush or healing brush / it with photoshop / gimp / image editor of your choice

And if the defect doesn't move (always top left) you can batch process so it's automatically repaired so you don't have to manually do each frame

There are some inpainting / logo removal filters you can try in avisynth, but it won't get you as good results as something like photoshop

[sanlyn]

You see this kind of cornering and border changes often in old film restorations. Apparently the pros often borow sections of video from other reels or prints that are missing from the main working copy. I've seen some restorations where part of the video has thick borders and is obviously a smaller frame than the rest of the movie. Believe it or not, classic film addicts actually groove on such things and wouldn't change it for the world.

[smrpix]

[QUOTE=sanlyn;2235394Believe it or not, classic film addicts actually groove on such things and wouldn't change it for the world.[/QUOTE]

Include me in this category Sanlyn. I think of these things as historical artifacts of the technology and methods of the day. In this clip for example, I'm wodering whether the upper left border is an artifact of the actual camera negative, or the camera negative of the rear projection? In either case it would have been assumed to be safely out of viewing range during normal projection. Groovin'

edit: original.