How to Enhance & Colorize Black & White Videos using A.I | TopazLabs & Photoshop Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
- In this video, we explore a new trick that allows you to enhance and automatically colorize old black and white film footage without any manual colorization whatsoever.
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⏲ Highlights:
Intro(0:00)
Software needed(0:52)
Enhancing footage(1:32)
Colorizing in Photoshop(3:40)
Creating a Droplet(5:38)
Pros & Cons(7:10)
Restore Audio(7:31)
More samples(8:09)
DeOldify(9:05)
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Hey guys, I noticed some of you are having trouble getting this method to work properly, if you don't get any output make sure you're using the latest version of Photoshop, and try adding a "save as PSD" step to your actions right before you stop recording and then create the droplet using the same settings. Have fun 😉
this works but i have to manually press save with all frame files
@@ThePikkutyyppi add “save as” into “actions” while it’s recording before saving “Droplet “
Is there any way to contact you to have you colorize a video for me????
Thank you!!!
@@aucklanddrive3394 does this work. When I’m trying to do a 1 and a half hour film it takes ages to convert 10 mins then it freezes and no longer saves frames
Can u show us what u mean by this before creating droplet
Colourize videos? That sounds awesome to me! How incredible would it be to colourize old family B&W vids? It'd be the most wholesome and precious moments! 😍
Exciting times!
Amazing video! Love so much the content you share.
Thanks so much!
I use shotcut for editing videos. And i have to drag all of the frames and put them beside each other one by one.Its pretty boring. Any tips?
Thank you very match for this tutorial, it has been a great help to color my old 8mm movies!!!
Glad it helped!
I`m going to have a lot of fun with this, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I ended up with an empty destination folder first try, sorted by selecting FILE SAVE before stop.
Sounds great!
It seems that photoshop looks better than deoldify. Incredible how far this has come. Once they figure out how to do this inside Topaz Labs it would be great to take account of flicker so that the color doesn't change. I'm currently working on a project that has very old footage from the 1930s. The interlacing is annoying but Topaz Labs did an amazing job. I can report that on the M1Max it works incredibly well without any signs of hearing fans going off. Soon I'm sure we will be learning how "They Shall Not Grow" footage got to where it had a consistent frame rate. That was painstaking in that they had to adjust one frame at a time.
Thanks for sharing your method. You should do more on Topaz Labs also. Very Helpful
Thank you so much for your feedback Edwardo, I'm definitely doing more videos on Topazlabs very soon
Actually, it seems like most (all ?) AI colorizations only add _purple_ to everything (except skin). _That's_ very disappointing.
Thank you, very impressive results
Thank you! Cheers!
this is soo cool
In topaz , it said to low my vrame usage?
Amazing!
Thank you! Cheers!
Bravo! Brilliant!
🙏
Very nice tutorial! Can I use Adobe Photoshop ELEMENTS 2021 to batch colorize photographs as you demonstrate here, or do I need to subscribe to Adobe's very expensive (21 US$/month) Photoshop software?
not entirely sure tbh
Do you have any experience with correcting flicker after colorizing a video? Oddly, in original black and white videos there is no flicker, but when colorized and sequenced together in Premiere Pro it causes immense flicker. I've tried using the "Anti-Flicker" setting to no avail. It causes quite a distraction. :(
Did you try video enhance ai after colorizing? I managed to get less Flickr with it in many occasions
Thanks a lot!
You're welcome!
Your the best man 🌹🌹🌹👍👍👍
Thanks man
You are the man Thanks 🙏 by any chance do you know if this can be used in Mac also or photoshop for windows is the only way i do not have photoshop so was wondering if by the one for mac or windows 😉 as my laptop with windows has only a geforce gtx 1650 and my mac is a mac studio m1 max
Photoshop works on Mac
Just to answer my own question, because I have now bought Adobe Photoshop Elements: IT IS *NOT* POSSIBLE WITH THIS SOFTWARE TO A.I. COLORIZE VIDEOS. You need the very expensive monthly subscription (full Adobe Photoshop) version, not the "Elements" version. Also I am not impressed at all with the manual colorization feature. It is clumsy, user unfriendly and poorly designed. I bought a "cat in the bag" as they say in Holland. A subscription of US$ 21 per month, i.e. US$ 252 per year, is utterly ridiculous. Adobe is shooting themselves in the foot.
any one else's photoshop keep closing when they try to open the neural filters?
Can you you upload the droplets?
Congratulations for this tutorial, I tried to replicate your steps,
I managed to create the "Colorize Droplet" launch file, but when dragging the folder with the original frames, you activate Photoshop for each frame but it doesn't save me anything in the destination folder "Colorized Frame" and I can't understand how wrong.
hi, check the pinned comment
Great video 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
realy wonderful
Glad you think so!
awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks for your info sir godbless you
Thank you too
Great video! Any additional suggesion in terms of new tools or processes since this video is now an year old?
I will look into it, there might be an easier way now
Or you can deoldify first and then adjust colors in premiere
7:14 i have follow your steps but i dont get this psd files at this pont after i let photoshop run the frames what am ai doing wrong ?
Hi, I think the solution to your issue is in the pinned comment
Is there a way of giving the ai additional information as help such as pictures? For example, if you had a black and white video but you had some photographs taken on location in color while the video was being taken, can you give the ai this to help it colorize?
I dont see that working with this method, perhaps something new will come along that allows that
what can I do? I'm trying to do create the droplet, I add all settings as you said but when I'm trying to add all frames I have an error message saying “Colorize” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash. This file was downloaded on an unknown date. btw I'm a macbook user, help please your video is very useful, I like it.
what version of PS are u using ?
I colorized a film consisting of about 150k frames with res of 1430x1080. Output to psd files. Took about 6 days to finish. Exported frames was about 500GB. (cannot recall exact number, but minimum 500GB). Premier pro tool about 40 minutest to import all the files and then it crashes. After a few tries I used Davinci resolve, import was almost instant and no problems. Highly recommend using davinci resolve if you have issues with Premier Pro and big files.
thanks for sharing
What are the specs of the computer you used? I have a threadripper CPU and 128 gigabytes of ram. Anything with the name Topaz takes forever.
Any chance of a vid or something how you did this in davinci
@@parkerbohnn Sorry for late reply. PC specs are: CPU i7 8700k all cores over clocked to 5GHz. RAM: 32 GB. GPU: GTX 1080. Software runs from a NVMe and the footage was read and written onto a normal SATA SSD.
I used the method in this video, using the AI in photoshop to colorize each frame.
@@BrianSmithgrumpygit Hi sorry I have deleted all the output files due to make space. If I remember correctly I just went to file --> import and selected all the PSD files. Then add them all to the timeline, added the original footage with Audio, and I remember I had to increase frame rate (not 100% in this), the exported frame was a bit shorter or longer that the original footage so the audio did not synch up correctly.
I am not very experienced with Davinci, sorry I cannot explain better, I just had to play around till I found the correct settings.
I'm on mac and for some reason after I create the colorize app on my desktop, I'll drop a folder in and I get an error message that says file or app has been damaged and needs to go in the trash... This is a year old... Is there a fix? Thanks.
hi, did you try reinstalling PS or using a different input ?
HI I just watched your video and I like it, I have lots of old black and white movies that i like to colorize. I never done this before, I use Nero for cutting and editting and ... but never done colorize, so my question for you is: what program should I get? is it 1 program or more? can you give me the name and the site adress? I went to A.I Topazlabs site but to be honest I did not understand which program is the right one for me. Thanks for your help.
Hi Afsheen, I have many reasons to believe you haven't actually watched the full video 🤣, it's all explained in the tutorial, and video enhance doesn't do colorization 😉 hope that helps :)
i did all like said only when photo shop process files its working and there is no files in the folder ?
hey, did you check the pinned comment ?
In my Photoshop "Neural filters" is not an active button :/ it is there but not active. Can I do something?
make sure the layer is selected
So, are the colors freely improvised? For example: If it shows a woman in a red shirt was her shirt really red at the time she was wearing it or was it just painted red?
It's predicted
I prefer to manually point out the objects (faces, plants, etc.) to the A.I. before colorizing. Does Photoshop allow you to do this? If not, then do any other programs or plugins?
I don't think there's an option for that, although it does recognize such objects hence the colorization accuracy
How does the A.I. choose which object should be which colour? Can it tell by the shades of black and white?
I don't really know for sure but some A.I are really good at identifying objects as well, and even better at finding faces and body parts, combined with what you mentioned as well
this is very good, but I have the problem that the batch does not save the images . any solution ?
thanks
Hi Frank, check the pinned comment
Great work here, doing it manually has way more natural look compare to auto colour correction, the only problem is AI colour has no control on stable colourization therefore causing the eyes to play up which is not good in a long run.
true, it's going to get better
most of this kind of videos are very missleading. I have tried many so called softwares to enhance video but of no use.
I colorized 30 seconds of BUSTER KEATON stunts today using my EDITOR APP and NO AI......just using the color filters in the app.....Will be uploading it with side by side comparison soon. My first.....took about 30 minutes to do.
Great video, thanks for uploading! I repeated the exact same process as you did, but when I drag my folder with the .png files to the droplet everything seems to work but the .psd files are nowhere to be found. It looks like it doesn't save the files. Do you know how to fix that problem? The only difference compared to what you do in the video is that I work on a MacBook instead of windows.
Hey Joran, make sure you're using the latest version of Photoshop try adding a save step to your actions before creating the droplet and see if that works, let me know :)
@@MDMZ same problem not saving psd file and I am using the latest version and I have added the save step. can you please check.
@joran peeks same problem not saving psd file and I am using the latest version and I have added the save step.
@@MDMZ The extra save step worked for me
@@WakeBakeSkvte can u tell me how you did it please
May i know whats the name of app that you use in this video
all the tools are clearly mentioned in the video and inside the description box 😉
is there an application to remove the filter on movies/videos/anime?
Filter? As in the color grading?
@@MDMZ yes
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when i drag the folder into the droplet it says the neural filters are not available and asks me to stop or continue
have you installed the filters first ?
@@MDMZ everything was installed i coloured the picture but when i drag the folder it runs but then says the command for the filter is not available and photoshop cant read it
I would rather have one piece of software to convert B&W films or to enhance a poor color film. Thank you for the information. I did download Video AI for a test drive. I hope Video AI does a better job on enhancing 8mm and super 8 films then my current software.
Glad it was helpful!
So you paint one reference, and from there you continue the rest, can you have multiple references so you can avoid flickerings/colors washed up etc?
Also can you achieve professional result with this technique?
Like we see on old movies?
This is not based on any colorized reference, its about processing each frame using photoshop
@@MDMZ yea i was meant you painting one reference image, and from there the photoshop process the rest right ?
Can i achieve with this way, professional colourization (if i do a little bit of tweaking as well)?
Like we see in old movies restoration?
@@sollekram nope it's not a reference cause photoshop doesn't look at the first image when processing the rest,it deals with frames separately, can't say for sure what kind of results you'll achieve since it all depends on the footage you have 😉
@@MDMZ ohhh, so you have to go to each frame, and change the imperfections if they are, what tactic should i follow then if, for example i want to use one image for reference and paint accordingly the rest(and if the setting change i use a new reference for the rest)?
So i can speed up the process and mean while hold a good result.
Thanks for the help! And sorry if i asking too much.
@@sollekram you don't have to do it manually, not sure if you watched the entire video, the photoshop action is meant to do the process for you, its just not a based on any reference since photoshop treats each image with the same effect but on individual basis, without considering the result on other frames, so keep that in mind
Grrrrrrrr When i drag the folder that has all my PNGs in, Photoshop starts working but doesn't put the colourized frame PSD files in the selected folder i chose. I cannot find where they go. Help needed asap on this please. 😞
They go nowhere. Had the same issue.
Open one of your images with photoshop and enable the colorize filter. Then open another image and create your actions, make sure to save that file in the folder you want as part of your actions. In your droplet also make sure to override save as. Try it a few times and open and close photoshop if it does not work.
check the pinned comment
@@MDMZ I have sorted it thanks MDMZ 😃
I get a lot of red using the default settings. When I try to reduce red using the editing tools, all the color goes away. Any suggestions?
Try with other videos and see if the issue persists, if not, it could be just that one vifeo
Thanks for explaining it! i ran into a "too many files were selected at once" after putting all the files into the droplet. Can anyone help?
I'd try to process in batches, for ewxample if it's not taking 100 images, feed it the first 50, then do the rest.
@@MDMZ Thank you! i found out that the files weren't saving so it caused it to pile up documents.
@@dracolanco got it, glad it's working now
Can you make how to convert a video into animation ??
great idea!
This must be how a fan recently colorized the black and white Prince film Under the Cherry Moon. Same flickering too.
How to avoid low quality videos persons look like cartoons with wierd faces and eyes? I'm just upscaling to HD however getting that efect due to the poor quality
that happens when you try upscaling very low quality video, check Topaz video enhance AI, it has good models dedicated to upscaling faces
@@MDMZ yes, did that so in the end used the up scai g video but reducing enhancements then use that on the wierd parts in an editor and the good parts from the upscaled and enhanced video (the one with wierd faces) worked somehow. Thanks for the answer, will look for a good set of parameters 🙏👍👍
It looks so complicated yet so simple to do
once you try it 1-2 times it becomes easier, I hope the tutorial helps :)
So how does it work these days?
Also, if the video had dust and scratches?
you can fix that with Neat Video or Video Enhance AI
I came here after watching a colorized version of a 1972 Indian Tamil black and white movie snippet, wondering how they managed to do that. You explained it very well. Thank you.
glad you liked the video, note that there are a few different methods to colorize videos, this is just one of them
You mentioned this technique doesn’t work well for poor quality B&W videos. Is there another approach to improve the quality of a B&W video and then colorize it?
yep! what @siddharth said. In fact I use VEAI in this video after colorizing, but you can try to start with it instead
@@sidx87 sure thing, feel free to drop what you got on Discord
photoshop it will not save my colored frames to the folder I selected
check the pinned comment
The PSD files aren't being saved at all. What do I do?
Hi there, your solution is in the pinned comment 😉
I could not find the new Psd files as they were processing. I am lost
hi Kendall, check the pinned comment for the solution
@@MDMZ thank you
the idea is great but,
Just a video clip of 3 minute is about 8,000 frames it take like 1 hour 20 minutes to run in topaz the to run those 8000 frames in Photoshop is about 4 hours. it is too much time just for a song clip black and white in you tube
I agree, I'm sure there will be much better and dedicated tools to replace this very very soon
Hmm, very interesting! Thank you for this video :) I would love to try to colorize a whole movie, but I think it's gonna make a mess... from scene to scene.
you're right, this is more effective on short clips, but it wouldn't harm to try, Adobe recently made huge improvements on the colorize filter
@@MDMZ I've tried yesterday with a famous old Italian movie: La Grande Guerra - with a scene at the beginning. Sadly the colorize doesn't stay "stable" on some things, especially the shirt of the main actor :(
This is pretty impressive but there should be a way to manually override and fix its obvious mistakes. I would rather have B&W that having the one guys hat randomly change to various colors. It looks like some sort of magic trick.
How to you hand colorize frame by frame not using AI
Softwares used: Adobe photoshop, Adobe premiere pro and Topaz Video enhance AI
google can find similar images and this may help to colorize movies
3:20 interlacing is the effect for CRT televisions to help with displaying the image at a cleaner framerate. its meaningless for anything outside of that.
Can you please colorize a video for me i don't have good enough specs to do this
try the cloud solution I mention in the video, you don't need a powerful PC for that
@@MDMZ I tried it didn't work pls help me. Can you just do it for me pls this is very difficult i also don't have photoshop i use photo pea
Using PS to create automated colourised motion film is innovative, if inaccurate. Ideally artists require full manual control to process video & video film.
please do it with the movie "Carom Shots (French: Carambolages) is a 1963"
Loved your full disclosure re commission from the app developer.. keep it up!
Thanks a ton!
i finally can colorize the 1939 looney tunes episode where porky pig swears
Edit: I'm Not Joking!
I forgot this commen- *gets an Heart by the guy Who made this*
Woody Allen must be having a fit about all this!
I’m here to try and colorize the footage of Lee Harvey Oswald getting shot
I would like a model capable of colorizing live video streams in real time on 3090ti/4090 class hardware. Then we could do high quality augmented reality on the quest two
wow! might sound crazy, but will probably happen before we know it
I just purchased Topaz AI for the first time. I’m an Absolute Beginner and have NEVER used anything like this before. I’ve NEVER used Photoshop either. I bought it because whenever I buy My first iMac 🖥 I wanted to upscale all the Classic Rock Videos I have saved to an external hard drive to 4K. Plus old TV Series I have copied to a couple of external hard drives. I’m wanting to upscale from 480p to 4K.
Great to hear!
@@MDMZ Only issue I have is “ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE” in actually doing it.
@@MDMZ Plus later I’ll buy the Picture AI like Gigapixel so I can colorize some old pictures.
@@vestel777 but it's so easy to use
@@MDMZ Well that’s why I recently purchased the Topaz Video AI. So I could upscale a lot of Hard Rock Videos, Old TV Series that a friend of Mine recorded on His TIVO DVR and sent the episodes to Me through the means of Dropbox and email and they were already edited (Removed all the commercials). I also have a bunch of Cartoons I recently purchased that I’m going to rip to an external hard drive and then upscale to 1080p and 4K then have a friend of Mine transfer them to a New Plex account so I can watch them.
9:50 the flickering really fucks with the red and blues
if you put this through a proper algorithm with a consistency reference it should be able to no flicker
back in the day when B&W tvs were around they invented a filter you put in front of the screen to bring the colors out. too bad they couldn't have that filter for video editors.
interesting, first time I hear about this
You should use the Topaz Dione model on interlaced footage to deinterlace it. Interlacing is for old analog TVs which used a scanning cathode ray. It's not for digital video and leaves jagged stripes on the footage where there is motion.
Thanks!
I used photoshop on the theme show for The Patty Duke show with the neuro filter to colorize it this is what it does default just start the neuralizer and changing no settings... Use batch processing to do this on image sequence under file menu automate or sonething
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The colors that they pic in AI are they actual colors which were in reality!?
it's approximate, the colors of natural objects (faces, trees, water) tend to be more accurate since the AI is trained to identify those objects and assign natural color, but I doubt it could tell if the tree was shot in spring or fall, so it will most likely go with green, this is just my observation so far
2 years later, have you found any software that does this automatically?
time to look into it!
where is the pinned comment
psd files not saving?
just re-pinned it
Colorize frame action please give me action
Ill do Photoshop style deoldify looks extra saturated
Glad u like that method
We´re close to perfection rather soon imo.
7:24 I'm running this on a not very powerful laptop ?! 🤔 Dude, if I had those specs in my pc, I would feel like a king sitting on his throne.
Haha It's a gaming LAPTOP, the same settings on a desktop would be a different story, especially the GPU series, it's never the same
very powerful laptop actually
most have way way way way weaker ones
nice tutorial, nice colors, shame though that to colorize 20min video you'll need like an hour of time, or longer with weaker setup, like 20min in enhance ai, 30 in photoshop, and 10 in premiere..
i mean an hour isn't that bad it's just disappointing that it's requiring 3 whole different tools, though it's very often like that nowadays when dealing with colors/upscaling
it does seem complicated, but still much better than it used to be, before you had to colorize each frame manually
Photoshop auto colourisation shows the actual colours used for costumes and props at that time. It's funny because they are not always what you may expect. They used to choose some colours just because they were taking well in black and white even if they weren't pertinent at all with the caracter. You will rarely see bright red beacuse in b/w is getting really really dark, instead blue and purple are very common as they are rendering well in a grey scale.
intertesiiiing
7:24 bro really called that not really powerful 💀
haha it really isn't, it's a laptop
color black and white video in photoshop2021
can u remaster a whole movie?
i don't see why not! it will take a long time tho
@@MDMZhow do you colorize by hand frame by frame? Not using ai. I see hand colorization that’s takes way longer looks like it’s full colorize and way better
its great filter till it stops working ....
I hope someone will colorize the movie A Place in the Sun,
this someone could be you 😄
@@MDMZ maybe when I retire. Looks time consuming
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How much would you charge to colorize an old 7 minute animated video?
AI colorization loves purple.
😅