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    hi

    Ive always been fascinated with the ability of professional production
    companies to convert old film to quality crystal clear picture dv-discs.

    Mostly im wondering what software(s) is/are used to do this. All i know from my little
    experience that there are no magics in this area, garbage in-garbage out...

    Im not only asking for general knowledge, im interested in learning what
    is available out there for improving dramaticly the quality of the picture.

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    da Vinci systems Revival
    DIAMANT software systems
    Lowry digital botox
    Red Giant Film Fix
    Cineric’s Cinebase

    final restoration is often done by hand in photoshop = sometimes frame by frame ("M" was done mostly by hand , 18,000 frames one at a time in PS) .

    film is scanned through a wet gate after cleaning and removing splices, ussually at 4k resolution, sometimes at other resolutions (6k for 70mm, 2k for 16mm) .......

    it can cost a lot of money, film fix is about the cheapest software - you can spend several million also , including nessessary scanning and/or da Vinci scan hardware (or other scanners such as the ARRI film scanner)
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    p.s. a lot of it is magic and great skill
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  4. They look good, because they are re-matsered from the original that only the studios have.
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    Originally Posted by SingSing
    They look good, because they are re-matsered from the original that only the studios have.

    this is not true quite often
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    Consider it a high capital, high skill specialist business. Not much credible amateur action in film restoration.

    Segmentation by skill.
    1. military recon/crime forensics labs
    2. the specialist houses servicing the movie/tv industry (usually small businesses)
    3. mid-range (professional) film to tape transfer + high end consumer businesses
    4. consumer rip off houses ("8mm to DVD"). DVD is not what you want for a master unless it's progressive data.
    5. Consumer efforts, shoot video on the wall, mirrors and lenses etc.
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    thank you.
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    Originally Posted by edDV
    5. Consumer efforts, shoot video on the wall, mirrors and lenses etc.
    lol, that brings back memories...

    one time, my high school biology teacher showed us a vhs tape of a cartoon about evolution a former teacher had recorded from film by simply fixing a camcorder onto the wall and projecting the 8mm reel onto the wall...it was obvious the teacher did it while school was in session; on the tape, you can hear the class dismissal bells and the hallway clatter that follows!

    it worked, but the flicker (recording a 24 FPS film onto 29.97 FPS NTSC) was horrible...
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