Hi all
This projects still bubbling on the back burner. Ive had a lot of time to think about how I want to achieve this. Reassessing the goals and the scope of the programme.
While the scripting that I’ve worked on is great, its not quite as reliable enough to capture all the bad frames without some manual direction first. What I’m going to do is start a system where anyone can easily contibute by watching an episode on Adobe Premiere and identifying problem areas and other anomalies, marking up the timeline and returning it to me, where I can create a file that will be read by avisynth for further processing.
So to start this process I’ve created a workflow document, this is subject to change but shows some of the processes that are unique to this project. Blue is DGIndex, yellow is AVisynth, Pink is Premiere Pro, Green is Resolve.
A few things to explain here. Most of the work will be done in two frame rates. 60fps which captures every frame that makes up the NTSC 60fps stream. And secondly a variable frame rate created by deduping the corrected 60fps master. Basically any frame that is duplicated, either through the 2:3 pulldown or simply the same video frame held twice, is removed. We’ll look at making a distinction between frames that are duplicated because of pulldown and frames that are simply cells photographed twice. Basically this is to protect the integrity of each frame by not creating slight differences between frames during the post processing phase. If I am to stabilize a shot, I want to avoid smoothing that stabilization over frames that are otherwise duplicates. Of course using that timecode file we can restore those frames.
Final deliverables will be in both 60fps and a decimated 23.976fps. Possibly keep 60fps for myself and 23.976 could be for wider release.
I’m looking at doing final processing in davinci resolve but could also consider other applications. There are some avisynth plugins that can do some pretty neat stuff with cartoons but I don’t want to push it too far like the FXX remasters do.
Happy to take any questions and if you would like to volunteer to help with the manual quality checking please give me a PM.