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Post by Pete Morris on Feb 19, 2014 14:56:04 GMT
Suppose a missing episode was discovered. ANY show, not just Dr Who. The episode turns out to be damaged, like the infamous Celestial Toymaker reel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=duETc556r3sIt's like that through the whole reel. Could this be recovered? What I'm thinking is, if each frame is damaged in a different place, and assuming that consecutive frames are nearly identical, it might be possible to recover missing bits from other frames. Would this be feasible? Or not? Note - this is an entirely hypothetical question. I don't want to start any rumours here. No such missing episode has been found. |
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Post by RWels on Feb 19, 2014 15:31:29 GMT
Yes, they can.
At least, I watched an extra about restoration on the DVD of Metropolis - back when it was still incomplete - and they showed how they eliminated dust and scratches and things, detecting them in one frame but not the next; and also that they needed to check the results because the process sometimes unintentionally wiped off sudden hand movements or things like that.
There's also software you and I can use to get rid of station logos, opaque and transparent, and watermarks.
And, theoretically, you could organize crowdsourced photoshopping of every frame to clean up a show or to get rid of foreign subtitles. But photoshop 24/25 pictures and you've done a second. If 450 people photoshop 100 pictures each, you've got a 30 minute episode. Well, it just might be possible to get something like that done for DW, but not for anything else.
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Post by brianfretwell on Feb 20, 2014 23:11:00 GMT
I also think the restoration feature on "The Wizard of Oz" states that on the first pass of some software it stripped out all the sparkle on the ruby slippers so they had to go back and exclude that part of the frame.
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Post by Ant Harvison - WIPED NEWS on Feb 21, 2014 17:32:10 GMT
I actually used this technqiue to manually restore a Top of the Pops video (David Cassidy, Daydreamer - it's on YT if anyone wants to have a gander). It took me AGES, but certainly looked better than before.
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Post by Richard Marple on Feb 21, 2014 17:59:59 GMT
It's a Wonderful Life has been electronically cleaned up, but some fans complained too much detail was removed in the process.
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Post by petermcbain on Feb 21, 2014 23:45:51 GMT
Here's a great restoration feature about Wings that shows similar damage. goo.gl/Y3ZgP |
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Post by Marie Griffiths on Mar 4, 2014 23:44:30 GMT
Well, it just might be possible to get something like that done for DW, but not for anything else. I think you are being too negative. There are people out there typing in weather reports from old Navy ships, which is far more boring. Crowdsource and it will happen.  |
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