I’m uploading a cleanup sample now, with my internet connection it is going to take 2 hours for the few seconds of footage to upload.

This is just a test, I’m establishing the best workflow for getting this done in a timely manner, the sample is about 80% cleaned up. There is some funkiness around the syringe movement, but I’m only seeing it in the compressed output, so I think it is a quicktime issue, I don’t get the artifacts when outputting uncompressed.

Anyway, this is not really how the final output would look, but I thought I would share some W.I.P. mostly on channel alignment and flicker/noise management. Colour hasn’t been touched much. The final will have more detail, the test scrubbed a bit away, hence the need for tweaking and testing.

I’m still waiting on my new CPU to turn up, currently I am stuck rendering on a much slower laptop, so am mainly working on the workflow at this stage so I’ll be ready to hit the ground running once the rest of the reels arrive.

Any donations more than welcome, I need to buy another 3 HDDs to back this up, and the replacement CPU was a US$540 cost, but the 12 cores should speed things along.
Processing requires a lot of grunt, this small sample is over 60GB (i.e. bigger than a dual layer BD for just these few seconds) in the raw scan format that I work with, so processing, or even just moving the files around is painful on a laptop, it is much, much better on the workstation, so I am looking forward to having it up and running again next week.

I’ll post a link as soon as my snail powered internet finishes uploading it.