Joel said:
As a former post-production person, I am picturing a workflow after manually cleaning the film:
1) scanning
2) digital cleanup
3) color correction
4) audio sync
5) make a video masterIf I were the project manager, I'd have 12 people each take 10 minutes of one film, do digital cleanup (with predetermined rules from team -1) for a couple of weeks, then send it all back for final color correction. Is this not feasible? Too much chaos introduced?
That is assuming you have 12 people of equal experience, that can all do film restoration work, and that have the hardware capable of handling the job.
It is hard enough to find 2 people that have the time, software, experience and hardware :)
It also assumes that the 'master' person has over 100TB of HDDs to handle the scans, a backup copy of them and the works in progress.
I have no idea how many are on their team or what their skill level is or how much hardware and software they own, but it is a big job however you slice it.
Expectation levels are quite high too, so quality-creep might be playing its part.