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Help Wanted: a good image editor needed

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I’m trying to restore a short shot, but my limited image editing capabilities are not sufficient for this task…

What I need is someone who could cut&paste, from some writings-free frames, the parts needed to cover the writings; there are about 60 frames to restore, and the area is really limited. I * think * it could be done in an hour or two, if done by a skilled image editor who use something better than MSpaint, as I do… 😄
Forgot to mention: there are actually two versions, with different writings, so maybe the task could be easier.

Wage: credit in the project thread, and my permanent gratitude!

Clip part to be corrected (8MB uncompressed): https://fs08n1.sendspace.com/dl/5c8e0e36acee3f689fd8a57bcccc3083/584aa53861a67334/zxcbz6/legs.avi

ZIP file with PNG images (9MB): https://fs05n3.sendspace.com/dl/175879c1d01b699095b1e8633060f695/584aacb14b680007/y31jsi/Trilogy Bonus Disc - test1.zip

Thanks in advance to anyone who could help in this project!

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Your work is amazing, please don’t limit yourself to MS Paint.

You should at least GIMP along 😉 https://www.gimp.org/

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The quickest way to do this would be to isolate the white text, and create a matte from it, then feed that back into restoration software as a damage matte.

I’m a little confused by the format, it looks really low resolution, and do you want both the left an right images restored, or just one or the other?

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@nightstalkerpoet: AviSynth is enough for the moment! 😄

@poita: the clip is just the part I would like to restore; I used the masks for both, but the script I used is not powerful enough; of course, if you have a software that could do that, it’s really welcome! The clips are from same source, just with different writings; maybe it could be useful to locate better where to copy the legs from the intact frames, or extract different good parts.

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It would be a lot easier for me if I had the entire source clip, rather than the crop.

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