FILM9 - Restoration software for old films (8mm, Super8, 16mm) and video

[ultradj83]

Dears,
any ideas how to get rid of a grain turned blue like this?


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Regards.

[manniman]

At the age of 64 learning is not so easy for my. Please, excuse my bad English. A month ago I had time to deal with the topic restoration of 8mm film clips. The basis was a 8mm clip, digitized in 2013. After a week of researching on the Internet, I luckily found and studied your website. After two days I was able to restore a 12 minute film from 1971. Finishing was done in Premiere CC. The program Film9 did a brilliant job with the restoration. My sincere thanks to you for developing and providing it. My family had a lot of fun watching the film.
Thank you very much Manfred.

[Selur]

@ultradj83: if you are working with an image use an image editor. For a video, posting a still image doesn't say much of the characteristic of the noise.
-> attach a short (few seconds) sample of your source.

[ultradj83]

@ultradj83: if you are working with an image use an image editor. For a video, posting a still image doesn't say much of the characteristic of the noise.
-> attach a short (few seconds) sample of your source.

Hi there.

Well,
I'm using Film9 to restore a 8mm film, which is actually a stripe of jpg frames.

Regards

[Selur]

Ah, sorry, overlooked that this thread is about Film9.
No clue about that.
Sorry.

[themaster1]

Dears,
any ideas how to get rid of a grain turned blue like this?


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Regards.

Have you tried the filter CCD it's a vdub filter but can be used in avisynth (film9 use avisynth ?)

ConverttoRGB32(matrix="rec601",interlaced=false)
LoadVirtualDubPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\Virtualdub\plugins32\ccd_sse2.vdf", "CCD", 0)
CCD(10,1) # 10= strength of the filter from 0 to 100, default is 30 (kinda strong)
converttoyv12(matrix="Rec601",interlaced=false)

[mcconnor]

Dears,
any ideas how to get rid of a grain turned blue like this?


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Regards.

Hard to say without seeing more of the frame. It might be that the blue channel is cranked up to high (relativly) - perhaps only in the dark tones. I had a similar problem throughout my canada restoration project (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OulrI4yaz64) and solved it quite accceptable with a reduction of the blue channel in the shadows but not in midtones and highs.

[ultradj83]

Dears,
any ideas how to get rid of a grain turned blue like this?


[Attachment 68560 - Click to enlarge]

Regards.

Hard to say without seeing more of the frame. It might be that the blue channel is cranked up to high (relativly) - perhaps only in the dark tones. I had a similar problem throughout my canada restoration project (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OulrI4yaz64) and solved it quite accceptable with a reduction of the blue channel in the shadows but not in midtones and highs.

I see you did quite a good job.
Thanks for suggestion.

Just to share, I see there's also chance to use AI for restoration and upscaling.
I prepared a RTX powered workstation on AWS to check this, by the way I need to engineer a workflow for to merge Film9's filters and upscaling features with this.
It's all new to me, so at the moment I am only proceeding by attempts...

[Bwaak]

Without pixel peeping I can see that AR has changed.

[Alwyn]

Apart from that, it doesn't look too bad to me.

[ultradj83]

I'm from China. I recently tested how the latest version of FILM9 works in repairing old videos. Although FILM9 provides convenience, it integrates AVISynth's and VirtualDub for processing. . . . But I also have a better solution to restore some old videos, if anyone is interested, please leave a message! ! Thanks!
The picture below is processed by me with another software

Please describe your workflow.

[Gelinox]

We are always ready to consider other solutions on this forum.

maybe here ?? :
http://raywzy.com/Old_Film/

[Alwyn]

Wow!

[Alwyn]

Wow, for an undisclosed price...

[Gelinox]

It's even worse than I thought

[bc91344]

I have been using Film9 on an older Windows 10 laptop and it is working fine, just slow. I recently tried installing it on a faster desktop but have run into an issue that is likely a Windows security setting. The software goes through the first pass and creates the S.avs script file. It then fails with an Avisytnth error on the start of pass 2 and can't find the required S2.avs script that should have been corrected in pass 1. I have tried running it as an Administrator but no luck. Suggestions welcome!

[ultradj83]

I have been using Film9 on an older Windows 11 laptop and it is working fine, just slow. I recently tried installing it on a faster desktop but have run into an issue that is likely a Windows security setting. The software goes through the first pass and creates the S.avs script file. It then fails with an Avisytnth error on the start of pass 2 and can't find the required S2.avs script that should have been corrected in pass 1. I have tried running it as an Administrator but no luck. Suggestions welcome!

I suggest to add monitored folders exceptions for any of the executables called by the flow, including Avisynth.

Regs

[bc91344]

I have been using Film9 on an older Windows 11 laptop and it is working fine, just slow. I recently tried installing it on a faster desktop but have run into an issue that is likely a Windows security setting. The software goes through the first pass and creates the S.avs script file. It then fails with an Avisytnth error on the start of pass 2 and can't find the required S2.avs script that should have been corrected in pass 1. I have tried running it as an Administrator but no luck. Suggestions welcome!

I suggest to add monitored folders exceptions for any of the executables called by the flow, including Avisynth.

Regs

Thanks. How and where is that done?

Bill