Joel's Star Wars Holiday Special 1080P AI Upscale and Reconstruction (a WIP) — Page 2

Author: botox1
Time: 15-Jan-2025 2:03 PM (Edited)
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Hi everyone and @Joel (Thank you for your edit),
I’ve made a custom 5.1 surround mix using AI separation and a spatial audio master in a professional audio software. It is sync with the downloaded Joel’s Edit (the edit is incredible). It is not perfect, but its still good enough, with music separation, sound effect and voices in center channel. I have used, stereo expansion to 5.1 channels, sound equalizer, etc. It is quite funny. Here is the link: https://we.tl/t-3PknWXrVwm
Do not play with a stereo sound system, the sound will saturate. Hope you will enjoy it!
Best regards

John Williams & Star Wars fan !

Author: Joel
Time: 15-Apr-2025 5:52 PM (Edited)
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lukecro said:

I’m not sure how I feel about it being nearly 60FPS…

Yeah I hear that.

My logic is that the original NTSC Video was broadcast 60 fields per second, and being shot to video, it had the “soap opera” look built-in. If I understand what the conversion is doing correctly, the frame rate conversion made a whole frame from each field. That is, instead of interpolating frames to get from 29.97 to 59.94, it’s just uprezzing each 240-line interlaced field to a 480-line progressive frame. I think!

At the very least, it feels more “correct” and faithful to my memory of the original broadcast at 60fps.

But it is weird!

benduwan said:

…only the colors could be more upgraded…looks pale…

Word.