Plugin to help clean up old 1960s 8mm footage?

[kingmustard123]

A friend of mine has recently had her 1960s 8mm footage transferred to DVD.

The footage is surprisingly high quality, but as you can imagine, there is plenty of the usual black speckles and the frame jumps up and down quite a lot.

Is there anything that can be done to improve the footage?

I have Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects.

[manono]

Is there anything that can be done to improve the footage?

Too bad it's already a DVD. Anyway, a short sample showing the kinds of things you want improved will be more useful than a description.

[kingmustard123]

Is there anything that can be done to improve the footage?

Too bad it's already a DVD. Anyway, a short sample showing the kinds of things you want improved will be more useful than a description.

I agree that it's a shame. I asked her to get the original "ripped" files from the guy but I'm not sure if she was successful.

I will try and get a clip posted. In the meantime, it's basically the typical black "specks" you get with such footage. They're easily removed in Photoshop with the content-aware fill tool, but I'm not doing that frame-by-frame :P

[2Bdecided]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=144271

It's removedirt and maybe removegrain that you need.


Unless this is a proper frame-by-frame transfer, you need to get back to the original frames first. These cleaning filters won't work where the original film frame is blurred/blended/copied across several video frames/fields.


Cheers,
David.

[bigass]

This guy blew my mind with what he was able to do to 8mm footage with Avisynth. Caveat is I don't know a damned thing about Avisynth, but if you do, this guy's scripts may be just what you're looking for.

http://vimeo.com/2823934


Cheers.