Old footage cleanup plugins

Hi,

I am looking to cleanup a batch of 1950's and 1960's footage which has lots of grain, dust, scratches etc, are there any plugins available that will give me pro results to the standard of a Snell Archangel system?

TIA

You wont get the real time performance but there are a ton of plugins out there. What NLE you talking about? FCP 7?

Michael Horton
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Michael Horton Wrote:
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> You wont get the real time performance but there
> are a ton of plugins out there. What NLE you
> talking about? FCP 7?

Hi Michael, yes it is FCP 7 but I also use Premiere CS6 occasionally.

Well crap, thougth Film Fix from Red Giant was still around but it isnt. Only thing I can think of is from CHV. They got a set of plugins called the Repair Collection. But it might only do a few things you want. BUT, Cristoph gives great support and might be able to help.

[www.chv-plugins.com]

There might be some decent plugins for After Effects though

Michael Horton
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i was going to sugest CHV repair collection, too.

but i'm not sure FCP is the right platform if you want "the standard of a Snell Archangel system"


nick

I haven't tried the CHV set-- have to look it over.

For grain reduction, I'd look at Neat Video noise reduction, it's quite good.

For hand-done dustbusting, Photoshop Extended CS4-5-6 allows you to load in your film transfers and eliminate dustbunnies and the like by cloning out blemishes and cinch marks -- the rubber stamp tool can borrow from clean information in neighboring frames! Quite amazing. Continuous scratches require more care, but can also be done.

There was a nice set of restoration tools from Topaz Labs called Topaz Enhance but they dropped the product. I was able to restore fuzzy old film transfer material which even brought back carpet texture! This product's central filter also borrowed temporally to restore frame information.

PHYX filters offers some nice product for chroma restoration like color bleed.

HTH

Appended: Oh, wow, CHV looks like it can do a lot of the Topaz frame-borrow thing! Gotta try.

- Loren

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