I have a short deadline to make this video look as good as possible - Sugge

[jrodefeld]

Hello everyone,

I am currently putting together a wedding anniversary video for my grandparents who are celebrating their 60th married year.

Anyway I have about 24 hours to put something good together. I have about four or five minutes of old footage of their actual wedding that was shot in the 50s. I will use that and then add on a slide show of old photos.

But I want some suggestions on what can be done to this footage to make it look as good as it possibly can. The source I have is flawed to say the least. The old 35mm film was put onto a VHS tape before I was born and that old VHS tape was captured and put on a DVD. That is the source I have now.

Here is a copy of it (compressed to have a reasonable size):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/farsk2wiqa2ggig/Wedding%20Footage_out.mp4?dl=0

Remember I have only 24 hours to finish this. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Maybe you could suggest an AVIsynth script that will clean it up and fix whatever problems can conceivably be fixed?

Thanks.

[Skiller]

Your sample is not very helpful unfortunately because it has been re-compressed – very heavily so. It would be more helpful if you cut out an unprocessed (!!) sample of your source. 20 seconds or so. You can use DGIndex to do so. Mark an area and then go "File" -> "Save Project and Demux Video".

All I can say is the video is very dark and some parts are so severly underexposed it's hard to make out anything.

I know you cannot do this now, but the best one could do is get the original 16mm or 35mm film digitized by a professional nowadays.


What are the project's video properties you want to add this to? Frame rate, aspect ratio, resolution, interlacing (bottom field fist or top field first)?

[johnmeyer]

I just made a similar response (to what Skiller just posted) to your identical post in the doom9.org forum. The 1,584 kbps MP4 you uploaded has so many compression artifacts that it will be impossible to do much restoration on that video. Hopefully the original footage is in better shape. Upload a lossless cut of some of that footage, and be more specific on what you want done to it.

I also echo Skiller's suggestion that you have it re-transferred, if you have access to the original film. I live in Carmel, CA so if you are nearby, I could do that transfer for you. I know you are on a tight deadline, so you probably can't send it to me and have it back in time unless you are close enough to drive here.