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Post by George D on Dec 30, 2017 21:39:19 GMT
Hats off to Charles and Paul for not giving up and doing this. Was the entire episode recovered? Any way we could see samples or the whole episode? I'm sure once they get the raw images video restoration can go a lot farther.
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Post by martinjwills on Dec 30, 2017 21:47:03 GMT
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Post by Sue Butcher on Dec 31, 2017 2:17:01 GMT
Part 2 implied that only a few short sequences might be restorable, but perhaps we'll find out in Part 3, which hasn't been posted yet. I wonder if they could use the same technique to scan those Lord Haw-Haw acetates that are stuck together?
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Post by Mike Biggs on Dec 31, 2017 5:49:56 GMT
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Post by Hugh Pearson on Dec 31, 2017 12:42:37 GMT
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Post by Dan S on Dec 31, 2017 18:08:26 GMT
You can see the audio track down the side! I wonder if there'll be a way of playing the audio?
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Post by John Wall on Dec 31, 2017 18:37:15 GMT
You can see the audio track down the side! I wonder if there'll be a way of playing the audio? Doing a quick check on Wikipedia it seems that the audios from that season were all recorded by a fan.
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Post by George D on Dec 31, 2017 19:31:15 GMT
That's great even if we don't have 16 frames per second there should still be a reasonable restoration out of this.
This whole concept brings restoration to a new level.
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Post by John Wall on Dec 31, 2017 20:06:41 GMT
That's great even if we don't have 16 frames per second there should still be a reasonable restoration out of this. This whole concept brings restoration to a new level. It could well be a telesnap and a half job ! Anybody know how long the episode was ?
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Post by martinjwills on Dec 31, 2017 20:49:21 GMT
Has the Archive status been upgraded to "Stills and Fragments Exist" from "Missing" even if only stored on computers.
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Post by Sue Butcher on Dec 31, 2017 23:57:29 GMT
Some of those sections are going to be unrestorable. I mean, what can you do if Eric's face is missing? In other places there's good images every three frames or so, which may be enough to work with. Anyway, hats off to them, this is a heroic effort at the cutting edge of film preservation.
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Post by andyc on Jan 1, 2018 0:36:55 GMT
this is a heroic effort at the cutting edge of film preservation. cutting edge ..... very good. This does bode well for the future, now all we need is a mushy copy of Web3 or London After Midnight to work on.........
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Post by Greg H on Jan 1, 2018 1:32:56 GMT
Part 2 implied that only a few short sequences might be restorable, but perhaps we'll find out in Part 3, which hasn't been posted yet. I wonder if they could use the same technique to scan those Lord Haw-Haw acetates that are stuck together? That exact thing had popped into my head as well. Looking more likely than ever really.
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Post by George D on Jan 3, 2018 3:17:13 GMT
Some of those sections are going to be unrestorable. I mean, what can you do if Eric's face is missing?. Im assuming they will use a blue screen type restoration where missing parts could be replaced with what was in the previous frame. With motion being 16 frames per second, in most spots there will be minimal change.
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Post by thomascanning on Jan 3, 2018 6:52:28 GMT
Equally - at that frame rate you may be able to create some form of computer programme (if it doesn't exist already) to build an low res image to fill the gaps and help rejoin where frames were cut etc. This should be more achievable for realism, seeing as it's greyscale rather than colour and help the image blend in more easily at 16fps.
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