Can I get some help on rendering video??

[Coolb69]

Hello to all and a Happy Holiday Season!! I've never done this before so I need some guidence on what software will allow me to do the following: I want to take apart an old 8mm home video frame by frame. (I have Win Dvd4 to play dvd's but unfortunately it Wont do true frame by frame in the pause mode-every third frame it skips two frames... ie: 1/2/4/5/7 etc.) I then want to capture every frame, save it in a file (which WinDvd allows) then, sharpen/alter the individual frames to clean them up.
After that, I want to put back all these 'cleaned up' jpegs back into a motion picture sequence, much like they did for the Zapruder film in the documentary 'Image of an assassination'.
So, in short, I have two challenges, find something other than WinDvd that will allow me to play a video in true frame by frame mode, and allow me to capture those frames to a folder, and then software for a Windows machine, that will let me put those individual frames BACK into a motion picture sequence......
Any help or direction would be very much appreciated. Also, is there a more appropriate forum on this site I should post this???? Thanks All!!!! Mickboy

[bugster]

For the 1st part, seperating to individual frames, you can use tmpgenc. Just open your avi file as source, then select file->OutPut to file->Sequence.

Beware, you will have approx 30 files per second of video, this could quite quickly add up to a lot of disk space!

As to putting it all back together, you could probably do it with premiere, though I expect there are simpler and cheaper solutions.

But why do it this way. Any half decent video editor will do the whole lot in one go with appropriate filters etc..

[Coolb69]

Thanks Bugster. I know it sounds daunting but I saw it done in that documentary on the Zapruder film and I thought... hmmm if I could enhance/sharpen the individual frames on that film and also some family films, then render it back into a motion picture sequence, then that would result in a significantly clearer film.
But, I still need to find a dvd 'Player' other than WinDvd that will let me do true frame by frame advance and capture those pictures to start with. Any suggestions for other forums on Dvdr help that I might post on?? Thanks again for your information!! Gerry

[bugster]

But, I still need to find a dvd 'Player' other than WinDvd that will let me do true frame by frame advance and capture those pictures to start with.
Gerry

Why do you need a DVD player software when TmpGenc will do exactly what you want?

[spectroelectro]

If what you want to do is process the individual frames of the video you've captured to make it either sharper or in some other way enahnce the video, then you definitely do *not* want to extract and manipulate each frame by hand.
VirtualDubMod and AviSynth will automate the process of manipulating the individual frames of your video to sharpen 'em (or otherwise change 'em -- many types of video processing are possible, including digital noise reduction,
color correction, softening, sharpening, embossing, etc.).
VirtualDubMod and AviSynth are designed to work on AVI files, however,so it's probably a better idea to process the captured AVI file and *then* encode it to MPEG-2 rather than encoding it to MPEG-2 and then processing it.

[FOO]

Vdub will spit out individual frames AND collect them back into
an AVI. I did this once for a 3 second section of a clip. Took all
day. Don't do it