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batch auto clean old photos
I have a very lengthy process for doing video restoration of old video
footage. I can get the video very clean, however am left with old original dirt and dust marks from the camera all over the place after the footage is cleaned up. Kind of natural since it's from the 60's, however if I can remove it all the better. So you may be asking, "Why is he writing this here?". Well, part of my restoration process is to convert each frame of video into a TIFF image and run software to clean up the pixelation in the video. So I have tens to hundreds of thousands of individual TIFF files. I'm guessing there is no magic bullet, however I am not going to clean the "dirt" out of that many images. There is also lines through the middle at points from a tear in the film. None of the software I found to correct this in it's video format have been successful so thought I would see if anyone knew of anything to attack this dirt in a picture and clean it up. Automated batch processing would be a necessity. Thanks. JR |
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batch auto clean old photos
On Jan 28, 5:17 pm, "JR" wrote: I have a very lengthy process for doing video restoration of old video footage. I can get the video very clean, however am left with old original dirt and dust marks from the camera all over the place after the footage is cleaned up. Kind of natural since it's from the 60's, however if I can remove it all the better. So you may be asking, "Why is he writing this here?". Well, part of my restoration process is to convert each frame of video into a TIFF image and run software to clean up the pixelation in the video. So I have tens to hundreds of thousands of individual TIFF files. I'm guessing there is no magic bullet, however I am not going to clean the "dirt" out of that many images. There is also lines through the middle at points from a tear in the film. None of the software I found to correct this in it's video format have been successful so thought I would see if anyone knew of anything to attack this dirt in a picture and clean it up. Automated batch processing would be a necessity. Thanks. JR If you scan the images you can use Digital Ice, the latest hardly degrade the image at all while taking out the dust. Post imaging, there is the Polaroid Dust Filter. This does blur the image slightly, sharpening after helps a little. Good luck Tom |
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batch auto clean old photos
"tomm42" wrote in message oups.com... On Jan 28, 5:17 pm, "JR" wrote: I have a very lengthy process for doing video restoration of old video footage. I can get the video very clean, however am left with old original dirt and dust marks from the camera all over the place after the footage is cleaned up. Kind of natural since it's from the 60's, however if I can remove it all the better. So you may be asking, "Why is he writing this here?". Well, part of my restoration process is to convert each frame of video into a TIFF image and run software to clean up the pixelation in the video. So I have tens to hundreds of thousands of individual TIFF files. I'm guessing there is no magic bullet, however I am not going to clean the "dirt" out of that many images. There is also lines through the middle at points from a tear in the film. None of the software I found to correct this in it's video format have been successful so thought I would see if anyone knew of anything to attack this dirt in a picture and clean it up. Automated batch processing would be a necessity. Thanks. JR If you scan the images you can use Digital Ice, the latest hardly degrade the image at all while taking out the dust. Post imaging, there is the Polaroid Dust Filter. This does blur the image slightly, sharpening after helps a little. Good luck Tom Digital ICE on individual video frames? That would take a lifetime. And what kind of scanner does video? There are probably some high-end professional solutions, but not at the consumer price level. The OP should contact Ken Rockwell--he is in that business and probably knows what is available. |
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batch auto clean old photos
I used Neat Image to parse through all the frames and it did a
beautiful job of cleaning up the video. Now this "dirt" is what is left over. Not sure if it could process it a second time to resolve, but doubt it as I do not think that's it's purpose. In some cases it's a big blotch which I do not think tools like that will see as noise, which is what they are looking for. I am currently testing Film Fix, with limited success, however on a 23 minute film with a high cleanup setting, it's going to take 116 hours on a 3GHz system. JR On Jan 30, 6:23 pm, "Ed Ruf (REPLY to E-MAIL IN SIG!)" wrote: On 28 Jan 2007 14:17:42 -0800, in rec.photo.digital "JR" wrote: I have a very lengthy process for doing video restoration of old video footage. I can get the video very clean, however am left with old original dirt and dust marks from the camera all over the place after the footage is cleaned up. Kind of natural since it's from the 60's, however if I can remove it all the better. So you may be asking, "Why is he writing this here?". Well, part of my restoration process is to convert each frame of video into a TIFF image and run software to clean up the pixelation in the video. So I have tens to hundreds of thousands of individual TIFF files. I'm guessing there is no magic bullet, however I am not going to clean the "dirt" out of that many images. There is also lines through the middle at points from a tear in the film. None of the software I found to correct this in it's video format have been successful so thought I would see if anyone knew of anything to attack this dirt in a picture and clean it up. Automated batch processing would be a necessity. Have you tried any of the noise reduction programs on such? Neat Image, Noise Ninja, etc. I'm wondering if it might be possible to set the appropriate parameters to allow these tools to perform another task. Might be worth even asking the program support folks if this is possible. -- Ed Ruf )http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photog...al/index.html- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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