Sorry if this isnt the right way to post but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1h4lllRabU
This was the first test on removing scratches from a video. And since this turned out pretty good, ill try a few more deleted scenes.
Do you intend to colour it to match the ESB:R colours of this scene, when it’s finished?
Do you intend to colour it to match the ESB:R colours of this scene, when it’s finished?
I don’t think it’s possible to match the exact colors as in the film. The low quality and the many blacks made it lose 90% of the detail, and the contrast between the whites and darks makes it much more difficult to color accurately. I’ll probably see how much more I can accurately color in the scene.
Here’s my attempt at colourising the scene. Took a hit of work to get it to match the 35mm scan I had used
Here’s my attempt at colourising the scene. Took a hit of work to get it to match the 35mm scan I had used
Very nice! I’ll see if I can integrate this color into the footage soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdAGv6lVUHI&ab_channel=InfectiousSneeze
So here’s the second color test. I didn’t try using the 35mm colored photo but instead a photo from the movie as a reference for the ai colorization to see how accurately it could get the colors.
Some things that would need to be either edited with ai or hand fixed would be leias hair color, their lips, and c3pos hand. Maybe I could put it into several different ai colonizers that don’t require a reference image, take that, mask out everything else and stack it onto the original.
Also, the video I sampled was the 60 fps version in lower quality so it’s quite messy in quality. And for the color grading Im currently using a cheap laptop with a screen that changes color/brightness on its level of tilt so my colors probably look more off than what you see.
That’s incredible! When I saw the source I wouldn’t imagine that was possible on non-pro/non-studio set-up.
For the color (ala your cheap laptop) I went and did a quick tweak that I think takes it closer to realism, but maybe not? I just reduced saturation a decent amount and also shifted the color a tiny bit from the red/magenta toward the green/yellow. This isn’t remotely belittling your efforts. Just seeing if you agree and if it’s perhaps a smidge of help (or maybe it’s just not)
https://mega.nz/file/ikZgCT7B#wHTZUKyerRw6KAZbfwgmFcHaqM-i9X6ISgWM7k5C4c4
LightWave = fun times with gfx for me 😃
That’s incredible! When I saw the source I wouldn’t imagine that was possible on non-pro/non-studio set-up.
For the color (ala your cheap laptop) I went and did a quick tweak that I think takes it closer to realism, but maybe not? I just reduced saturation a decent amount and also shifted the color a tiny bit from the red/magenta toward the green/yellow. This isn’t remotely belittling your efforts. Just seeing if you agree and if it’s perhaps a smidge of help (or maybe it’s just not)
https://mega.nz/file/ikZgCT7B#wHTZUKyerRw6KAZbfwgmFcHaqM-i9X6ISgWM7k5C4c4
Very nice! looks a bit too unsaturated to me though, somewhere in between
I’ll mix it with the higher-quality video later today/tomorrow
Alright, a bit of a update: I have been on and off on this project. Removing scratches periodically, getting burned out, and returning a few months later. But Im just about to be finished restoring this entire scene. I’ve gone and manually had to remove most of the scratches, the horizontal ones are pretty tough and are most noticeable since they leave a glitch afterwards but ill try and fix all of it once I finish school and start summer which is like in a month. So here’s a snippet of what I’ve got. The rendered preview doesn’t fully render the entire scene so I’ve only been able to screen capture a few seconds before it starts to lag and here’s that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2r-G5Ufsw
There’s a lot of work involved in cleaning up such damaged footage — well done!
My edits:
https://ifdb.fanedit.org/fanedit-search/tag/faneditorname/phase3/
It looks great. Hope to see more progress with this.
It looks great. Hope to see more progress with this.
Thanks, Currently working on the deleted rancor scene, about 4/10 finished. But I’ll also keep working on this on the side. Probably finish it on the weekend or close to finished.
I’m restarting for both that I lost the project files and that version wasn’t the highest quality source so im starting again. Found a good source
60% complete, spending un godly amount of time trying to fix the straight line scratches.
It’s probably the most worthy deleted scene of the lot to have been cut out and deserving of a restoration.
I don’t have a clue at how hard this stuff is to recolor or colorize?
Did you ever have a go at the cantina Rough cut? I don’t think there is too much fottage in it worth a restoration but the informant leaving the bar and the storm troopers entering a bit earlier / Han sitting with Chewbacca alone are sort of better explain what is happening nothing more. Orientation and timing fixes mainly to over editing.
Just spitballing but I am currently looking over this part currently and was wondering if you had a go and how difficult it is?
It’s probably the most worthy deleted scene of the lot to have been cut out and deserving of a restoration.
I don’t have a clue at how hard this stuff is to recolor or colorize?
Did you ever have a go at the cantina Rough cut? I don’t think there is too much fottage in it worth a restoration but the informant leaving the bar and the storm troopers entering a bit earlier / Han sitting with Chewbacca alone are sort of better explain what is happening nothing more. Orientation and timing fixes mainly to over editing.
Just spitballing but I am currently looking over this part currently and was wondering if you had a go and how difficult it is?
I don’t have HD footage of the cantina scene so I’ve never tried restoring the entire sequence. Colorizing isn’t too difficult and it’s a lot more fun than cleaning scratches. There are several ways of doing it but for the best results I take a few frames, colorize them, run them through ebsynth, then any artifacts I clean by hand in photoshop with a new layer set to color blend.
Well The informant leaving cantina and when waving down storm troopers has good color reference before going black and white from the rough cut.
Unfortunately the storm troopers do not have an exact reference I know of but fairly dark scenes. Could be an easy job if the software automates the process
Ok. So after thinking about it, I may release half of the entire deleted scene. They’re both basically the same except for the extended hot shot scene and the single camera shot being held for longer. I will insert the deleted scene after the close up of leia as it’s just a single shot till C-3PO enters. We’ll see how well I can blend the two together. I Should be finished sooner with this editing choice but I can still upload the rest (restored but not completely) on the side.
Here’s my attempt at colourising the scene. Took a hit of work to get it to match the 35mm scan I had used
Very nice! I’ll see if I can integrate this color into the footage soon.
Ok, I always thought this was just a single photo of a before and after, but I clicked on the link (to try and recall how to upload photos here) and discovered this was a video?! What source was this version of empire? I’d like to maybe match it to this version as well. But anyway, heres a quick color test to see what I’m dealing with:
https://imgur.com/a/YdMSKbG.png
https://imgur.com/a/4wPOMai.png
no clue how to get the thumbnails to work
Also: while matching the frame of both deleted and official versions, after “you’re trembling”, the scenes actually align almost perfectly; the audio does start to lag behind: OK at first I thought it was a fps sync issue but then I realized after muting one and playing the audio over both, it had to be re done in ADR which would explain why both sequences match in visual timing but not in dialogue.
Back to the discussion: I could overlay the two to produce the finer details but you would see the cut in quality right as the overlay stops. But it will still be really solid color info since I can just overlay them perfectly for the first half.
Also, just thought of a genius fix to skip the lines. Since both clips match I overlayed a cropped portion of the official version on top of the portion of footage containing scratches and converted it to B&W, add a slight blur, and tone matched it to fit seamlesly into one. Now I can forget those damn line scratches that run for 20% of the film.
Alright, I’ts almost complete. I’ve come to terms with knowing that there are still a few scratches on the video and I can spend another day perfecting it, but its good enough. I am now in the process of colorizing the other three quarters of deleted footage and editing the audio as I must now extend and blend the two sources both visually and audio-ally.
Maybe 75% done colorizing. manually tweaking each frame. Will be another week.
Well Done It’s the best one anyway
