Hi there, as promised here is a longer video colored by newlify:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV1dqH01zhU
I will upload more samples as time goes by.
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Well I guess you chose that scene as a direct comparison to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeAJVLtIf04
Is it better ? Who am I to judge. But this article when the film was first bastarsized sums it all up for me.
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/casablanca-gets-colorized-but-dont-play-it-again-ted -
Maybe your choice of words was accidental. But maybe this film is one of your ATF's. And if it is you really should not even attempt to mess with it.
Your program might be a general improvement on what has gone before. But it still suffers from a basic flaw. Faces are still un-natural/cartoon like.
Just my 2 cents (and my last on this subject you will be relieved to know) -
Also you can see the shadows on the faces shifting slightly.
I think,therefore i am a hamster. -
It looks nasty. Surely you don't think it's an improvement over the original? And why did you encode the black bars into the video you uploaded?
Thank you for the link to the article. It lays out the case against colorization in stark terms. In black and white, you might say.
I see freshly colorized old sequences and movies all over YouTube these days and it disgusts me. What disgusts me even more is the general praise these abominations receive. It's as bad as the conversion of "fullscreen" movies to "widescreen" using one method or another, thus wrecking the original aspect ratio. Everyone thinks they're a better director than the original one. Everyone thinks they're a better cinematographer than the original one. -
I see freshly colorized old sequences and movies all over YouTube these days and it disgusts me.
It's as bad as the conversion of "fullscreen" movies to "widescreen" using one method or another. -
This is Magnu again, who posted the above question 2 years ago. I thought I'd mention two pieces of software that colourize, but neither is perfect. One is the Colorizing tool in Vegas Pro 18. Another is a program called PixBim Video Colorize Ai.
Vegas Pro seems to make the video too washed out of colour, with a lot of scenes being very orange or too psychedelic (If all that makes sense?)! PixBim does a far better job with the colours, but when experimenting with it I see too many ghosting effects from previous frames.
I did see another video on YouTube which suggested another Ai method using software to save each frame as an image, then using a colourising feature in Photoshop to auto-colour the first frame of each scene, then using a process to automate all the subsequent frames with the same colours. This technique could possibly be utilized to do proper colourizing by just colouring the first frame manually?
I guess the next more expensive option is to use Mocha Pro?Last edited by magnu; 28th Jul 2021 at 00:54.
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Well if you check my 'test' of this service it took approx. 1 minute for every second of SD footage.
You would have to do your own test of a HD source (if you feel it worth the effort) -
I contacted the company (Newlify) to ask about costs, etc., and received the following reply:-
Hi William,
We can convert films in different lengths.
The fee is 3$ per minute, but if you want to convert more than a few minutes we can issue you a discount.
Also, due to high upload times we have decided to stop using the website to upload videos, so if you would decide to color your videos I will send you an alternative upload destination.
Please tell me if I can help you in any other way.
Thanks. -
I have been trying to find out what this person is using for colorization. I'm pretty sure it is mostly automatic because you can see color bleeds during fast motion. However, for the most part, colors stay with objects as they move.
As someone who restores old movies, I really appreciate what he has done with this late 19th century movie film.
Around The World in 1896 Colorized (4K 60fps) New York, London, Jerusalem, Paris -
@johnmeyer: I'm pretty sure that was mostly done by DeOldify and some filtering afterward.
users currently on my ignore list: deadrats, Stears555 -
Those are certainly sharper and more natural that previously, but do you notice the similar, limited palette? (heavy on the blue+tan)
Scott -
Yes, there was some post-processing, but the color choice and the chroma flickering looks like DeOldify to me.
users currently on my ignore list: deadrats, Stears555 -
I got the person's email and sent him a message, asking him if he would tell me what colorization software he uses. I included links to some of my work, and mentioned my posts at doom9.org in VideoFred's film restoration threads, just to establish my credibility as a serious film restorer.
Without some sort of "AI" (whatever the heck that is), any automatic colorization results are going to look a little strange at times, and the "limited palette" Cornucopia mentions is to be expected, but the results shown in that clip I linked to above, and in the work Selur has done, are almost good enough for some people to find them more enjoyable than B&W.
(Of course, there are some of us who enjoy B&W!)
John
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