@@ZacharyMarshall You separate the two fields to get the original frame rate, unless it was shot at 30 or 24fps you have to deinterlace it differently. Most NTSC broadcast are shot 12, 24, 30, or 60fps unless you are in a PAL region which is 25 to 50fps.
@@ZacharyMarshall Hi Zachary, Thank you for watching! Sorry for the late reply. Can you tell me a little bit more about what type of footage you are dealing with, and what problems you are having? In general, if the video is a high enough resolution, you can try deinterlacing it. Otherwise, I recommend something like I did with this video as deinterlacing will discard 50% of the information, which for already low-fi videos will sacrifice detail. Generally if the interlacing is not noticeable though, you may not need to do anything after digitizing.
@@SuperCartoonist The frame rate should not change after deinterlacing. Deinterlacing separates the even and odd fields. Since only one field can be kept (unless it's blended), you will be discarding 50% of the information. Conventionally if for television, the video would need to stay interlaced. Now that we are mostly digital now, deinterlacing to a progressive format is encouraged for any high resolution video with a lot of motion. For low-fi recordings like this, deinterlacing can do more harm than good, and when there is little motion like here, it isn't really necessary either.
+Ryan Skelton Haha thanks, Ryan. The footage was pretty bad to begin with. The sharpening was intended to be viewed on a television (this was made almost 10 years ago, for an older audience). But now it does look like a bit much on a computer. This video's also somewhat of a dinosaur. I really should replace it with something more recent since I've been getting a lot of comments on this topic lately.
I agree that it looks too sharp on closeups. I did more because it still looked too blurry on wide shots. I think the result would have been better by keyframing, reducing the sharpening for the closeups.
Glad you found this useful. I have been considering putting up some additional videos that are more step-by-step/how-to. This video was more so intended for an audience that wasn't interested in learning exactly how to do remastering, but mainly in what was involved.
Totally Amazing!!! This is the best guide to remasterizing videos. And here we can set the basis: think what the video needs (more color, bright, curves, more shape, like the tv when you see a bad signal) Really good work here. You got all my respect because its simple magnificen the work done here. Very clever to find the the needs of this tape BRAVO!
Fake stereo is annoying- when broadcast TV first went stereo, they ran all mono material though a fake stereo processor. If it's in mono, leave it in mono.
To be honest, fake stero is gimmick-ey and would never be used in a professional remaster. Of course in that case, you'd ideally have multiple mono mics to remix in a stereo image. In this case, I personally thought it sounded better with, so I kept it.
I'm kind of interested in how THAT would have sounded like on TV since most video tape recordings I've seen/heard of mono-to-stereo conversions play back only in mono most likely due to the video players used to record TV programming (linear and Hi-Fi stereo decks were considered more expensive).
Probably the easiest route. I vaguely remember trying that and loosing more detail than I wanted, so this non-conventional "reduce interlace flicker" filter in AE gave me a little more control over how much to reduce the interlacing effect.
Another thing: This video was originally produced for DVD, which was going to be viewed on TV. In that case, deinterlacing would not have been appropriate.
Transfer with a time base corrector and frame sync. Use QTGMC to deinterlace with field interpolation for a clean progressive raster. Then upscale with preferred filter. Denoise with Neat Video within a 32bit float environment and then add 5-10% sharpening and some midtone detail. Export with v210 variant.
For the video portion, you should really have a look at VirtualDub and some of the MSU plugin filters for it, especially MSU Smart Sharpen, MSU Denoising (better use the 1.x version, as the 2.x version for some reason always crashes on me), and MSU Deblocking (both 1.x and 2.x, check which works for you better). Also a good restoration plugin is dotcrawl by Tacosalad. And the best thing: It's all *FREE* and gives you a thousnd percent better results!
@@wado1942Friend, I have some digitized files from the vhs that have some problems with the horizontal band and I don't know the technique to remove it, if I send you the link of the video for you to visualize, could you help me with a technique to solve this problem?
Are you familiar with Arcsofts' Total Media Extreme 2? Can all this be done through them? Also If the VHS footage is already on a DVD can it be restored from that state or does it have to be the original footage. I am trying to improve some old musical footage myself and would appreciate any help with this project since I am a novice at doing video and sound editing. Thanks in advance.
THANKS! You just helped me solve one of my biggest problems for the last few months :) Now I have another question for you: What codec and bitrate do you recommend to capture my VHS to, to get as much video as possible into a DVD without losing a lot of quality?
Pretty good for only original ae effects. Is there any specialized plug-in that really does a good job for VHS, including remove the horizontal gray parasites along the frame kind of stuff... ? 😁 Merci
There may be, and there may even be some AI plugin now, but I'm not too familiar with what AE offers currently in that regard. Though I'm sure something out there exists. Good luck!
I use a combination of Vegas and Virtualdub. First, digitize the video using the highest quality CODEC possible in Virtualdub. I prefer Logarith in 4:2:2 mode. I use the MSU deinterlace filter (free) in Virtualdub while rendering to a new Logarith file. The MSU filter does a much better job of deinterlacing while preserving the clarity much better than what After Effects has. From there, I bring it into Vegas and use the color correction filter to get the shadows/highlights where I want (sometimes I use the color curves), adjust gamma & saturation etc. There's a variety of sharpening tools and I have the "Neat Video" noise reduction plugin to take care of excessive video noise if that's a problem as well. The key with noise reduction is to only use what you absolutely NEED. I usually tune it so it just takes the edge off the worst noise. Digitally zooming in on the video, even if slightly, damages the already fragile image. If the junk in the overscan region bugs you that much, you can just mask off the edges. It's only a few pixels that the original engineers never expected anybody to see. From there, you can tweak the audio however you like and export in the format you prefer. Every project is different, so what I do changes. Some projects need almost nothing done to them. Others need A LOT of work just to be watchable. Also, if you plan to watch only on computer (not TV), you can horizontally resize to square pixels. What I mean is, in Europe, digital video is 720 x 576, which will look slightly narrow on a computer's square pixel matrix. It needs to be resized to 768 x 576. In North America, digital video is 720x480, so it has to be resized to 640x480. If you do plan on watching your video on TV, the resize is not necessary and how you go about deinterlacing is different as well.
so the best that could be done was to increase saturation, which makes things look all candy-like, but not necessarily better. It abates midtones, and inevitably makes the colors look less natural. The cardinal rule is to get it as right as possible in production, and do as little as possible in post. In this case, production value was low, so you can't expect much from the post. (I do sensationalize the results a bit too much in the video, I know.)
Hi! You did a great job on this video. I want to transfer my VHS tape to my pc but some of them have a problem with the audio (I uploaded a video about it). Do you know if there's anything I can do to fix it?
Sorry, there's not much you can do. If it was HiFi VHS, you can copy the audio using the HiFi audio tracks. If it was only linear audio tracks, you're stuck with it.
Yeah, if it was a good quality scan, there's probably not much to be done. I have a film that I copied to digital video twice. The first one was a budget job and was terrible. The second time, I had a specialist with a flying spot scanner do it and it required no manipulation on my part. He even optically reframed some of my shots (to get my matte box out of the frame) after doing the whole movie in its normal size.
I like the original better, too. Again, not trolling at all. The video on the remaster shows false sharpness and artificial looking contrast. In other words, it just doesn't look natural. If the only processing had been to remove the video noise and use one pass of the unsharp filter, that would have put it at about what I would personally consider the optimum quality given the source. To each their own, I suppose.
Hi xargos, Thank you for your comment. I'm replying 6 years later, but better late than never, right? I agree that the result doesn't really look ideal, especially when viewed online. To my eyes, it does look oversharpened and oversaturated. Sadly, the footage was pretty bad to begin with. But this is a good cautionary tale of not getting sucked down into the "too much of a good thing" pitfall: "Oo, sharpening looks great... let's add more! The colors pop with boost... let's add more!" Your philosophy is best about restoration in general. A good analog is how a museum conservator restores a cherished oeuvre d'art: They only desire to remove dirt, reduce cracking, or the like to diminish the effects of ageing. They may even non-destructively touch up with paint (that is fully removable), but they will never add information to the work. So if a work is damaged in a region where significat information is lost, and they do not have a reference work or photograph, then they will leave it as-is. The same should apply to true remastering: preserve for future generations, while avoiding the addition of information (artifacts/noise) in the process. This was originally part of a DVD I released for a small audience and was never really intended for UA-cam. But I'm glad I posted it as it showed me that people really are interested in this topic. As such, I should upload another video in the future that shows a proper low-budget remastering process. I used the word "remastering" loosely here. There are clearly better profesisonal examples out there; check out how they remastered the Wizard of Oz-- That's a true remaster. They used advanced film scanning techniques, had teams of interns retouching every single frame, and used many other advanced techinques.
Wouldn't you use QTGMC to convert the captured interlaced SD material, and convert it to 486/480/576 progressive footage? That way any interlaced artifacts are removed and the full temporal rate of 50 fps/59.94 fps is retained when uploading online?
Sure, you could use QTGMC scripting to deinterlace. This (rather old!) video just shows one way to do it in After Effects in post. I think I may upload an updated version of this that uses more hardware on the front-end, like a TBC VCR. As is also the case in music and video production, the more you can do with hardware when recording and the less you need to do with software in post, the better the result.
Hi there. I've watched this video over the years, and have really started watching recently as it will help me 'Remaster' my home movies. One thing I cant find a decent tutorial for (I think i may be searching with the wrong term) is for when you remove a peice of damage/unwanted dirt from a frame which has two clean frames either side of it. If that makes sense? Think its digital painting, but most tutorials I search for only bring it up for photo editing :)
Hi! Welcome to my channel :) My recommendation is to export the video as an image sequence using QuickTime Pro, Final Cut Pro, or the like. Then you can import the frames you wish to "clean" into Photoshop and then manually edit out the dirt or damage using something like the clone stamp tool. Then you can put the other frames plus the edited frames back together into a video again using the same editing programs.
@@DavidMcCoul Hey :). That sounds cool. I have Adobe Premier elements 2018 which comes with photoshop as well, so I think I'll probably have everything I need. That's cool :). Actually quite excited to do some colour correction too. I remember having pinnacle studio 7 back in 2002, and it had nowhere near the features Adobe Elements has now. :)
@@zetandpeligaming Great! You might also have Premiere then, which you can use instead of QuickTime Pro or Final Cut Pro. Let me know how it goes and if you need any more pointers ;)
Plus, it's better to just crop that flickery bottom line in PPro without resizing, so no detail at the top and at the sides gets lost. A small black line down there is much less obvious.
Hmm ...interesting. I don't see what you see-- actually, the newer footage is both more saturated and sharper than the original footage. Take a look at the end of Part 2 for further clarification.
You're right, Brand X. For that you really need a high-end VCR with TBC-correction and the source tapes, if they still exist in playable order. The problem with VHS is that it is not only humidity and temperature sensitive, but the film demagnetizes with time. Also I'm not sure what software can do this, but there might be something out there as Celemony has something similar (called Capstan) for restoring old audio recordings with wow and flutter.
@@DavidMcCoul I converted a VHS to Mp4 format so I what I need is the Mp4 format upgraded and enhance to a 1080p or 4k if possible and on the Audio remove the high pitch sound in the beginning of the video and through out the video as well.
Meh, different strokes for different folks, I guess. It depends on what you like. If you're into that vintage feel, then yeah, the original's better! Otherwise, I think the biggest improvement I made was to the audio track. Night and day, in my opinion. The video is debatable-- I didn't have as much to work with. The optics and CMOS of that 1990s camera were basically nonexistent, so sharpening could only give mediocre results. Also, the color depth of the original was severely lacking,
Working on it! Glad you liked the video. The new one will place more emphasis on VHS capture methods, but I'll also cover digital processing too. Stay tuned!
@@DavidMcCoul You should use the same VHS clip and compare both restorations. I'm sure you've improved with your techniques, but the technology has as well.
Hi Kevin, Nero Editor 2018 does have some pretty advanced features now that look similar to AE. Do you use Nero? Anyway I find it funny how much attention this video is still getting. It's now almost 10 years old!
The video wasn't captured at 60 fps. I captured it at half that. The problem with deinterlacing is you loose information and detail by doing so. Therefore I did not "destroy" any quality with this approach, and the result is sharper. Also bear in mind this was recorded on a camcorder to VHS in the 1990s. The quality was already absolutely terrible. Thanks for watching.
One more thing: I originally produced this video for DVD, which was being viewed mostly on TV. In that case, deinterlacing would not have been appropriate.
@@DavidMcCoul If you recorded this from a camcorder, then the original was shot in 60fps. I would know older camcorder could never change the frame rate since there wasn't an option to. Plus if it was recorded on to a VHS, the real resolution should be 240x333 so that would be 240 line down at 60fps and 333 pixel across if you transfer digitally since VHS doesn't have much detail on the tape moving across the drum head anyway.. Now you can get more detail in the image if it was shot at 30fps with 480 lines, but you don't know much about camcorder then I do, especially those that were made in the 90s
Hey, I need a video tape cleaned up and remastered for my divorce. It contains evidence of things said. It is mostly text I'm looking for. Can I send you the tape?
So this software costs what $888.88? Any free software to do the same remastering old vhs tapes? I got like 365 VHS tapes needing converted to DVD, somebody please throw me a bone, anyone hello please plkease??? thanks
Almost everything he did with the video can be done with similar or greater quality in VirtualDub. Use the MSU deinterlacing filter (3rd party). Don't enlarge the video to get rid of that junk in the overscan region though, it does nasty stuff (especially when watching on a TV).
I just need a good 4 head VCR able to track the tape well and my Magnavox DVD recorder with its ability to latch onto the video better than anything I've seen. Processing on a computer takes away the 60fps look of the original and looks like garbage. A lot of what you did with software can be done realtime with the Sima Color Corrector.
You don't have to deinterlace the video if you don't want. It just looks better if you're watching on a computer. I regularly remaster old tapes with only slight tweaks to the video levels. BTW, if you think a consumer-grade 4-head deck copied straight to DVD in real time looks good, you would be amazed at what a professional S-VHS editor captured to uncompressed digital and exported off-line can do.
compressing already heavily compressed sounding audio (and this was such, because it seemed to be recorded by a camcorder that usually compress audio like hell) even once more is no good idea. you should simply have used a limiter to get rid of the peaks. or leave the audio job to an audio nerd ...
I like how this man is responding to comments 11 years later
I like that my videos are still being seen. Coming out with new ones soon too. Thanks for watching!
@@DavidMcCoul I needed advice on dealing with interlacing as I'm new to remastering tapes. Very helpful, thank you!
@@ZacharyMarshall You separate the two fields to get the original frame rate, unless it was shot at 30 or 24fps you have to deinterlace it differently. Most NTSC broadcast are shot 12, 24, 30, or 60fps unless you are in a PAL region which is 25 to 50fps.
@@ZacharyMarshall Hi Zachary, Thank you for watching! Sorry for the late reply. Can you tell me a little bit more about what type of footage you are dealing with, and what problems you are having? In general, if the video is a high enough resolution, you can try deinterlacing it. Otherwise, I recommend something like I did with this video as deinterlacing will discard 50% of the information, which for already low-fi videos will sacrifice detail. Generally if the interlacing is not noticeable though, you may not need to do anything after digitizing.
@@SuperCartoonist The frame rate should not change after deinterlacing. Deinterlacing separates the even and odd fields. Since only one field can be kept (unless it's blended), you will be discarding 50% of the information. Conventionally if for television, the video would need to stay interlaced. Now that we are mostly digital now, deinterlacing to a progressive format is encouraged for any high resolution video with a lot of motion. For low-fi recordings like this, deinterlacing can do more harm than good, and when there is little motion like here, it isn't really necessary either.
this should be renamed how to over sharpen old footage till it turns into an unrecognizable mess.
+Ryan Skelton Haha thanks, Ryan. The footage was pretty bad to begin with. The sharpening was intended to be viewed on a television (this was made almost 10 years ago, for an older audience). But now it does look like a bit much on a computer. This video's also somewhat of a dinosaur. I really should replace it with something more recent since I've been getting a lot of comments on this topic lately.
@@SimpleMeFPV :) glad she did
I agree that it looks too sharp on closeups. I did more because it still looked too blurry on wide shots. I think the result would have been better by keyframing, reducing the sharpening for the closeups.
One of the best videos I've ever seen on UA-cam. Mentions every detail and explains why. Absolutely amazing. Thank you!
Glad you found this useful. I have been considering putting up some additional videos that are more step-by-step/how-to. This video was more so intended for an audience that wasn't interested in learning exactly how to do remastering, but mainly in what was involved.
Totally Amazing!!! This is the best guide to remasterizing videos. And here we can set the basis: think what the video needs (more color, bright, curves, more shape, like the tv when you see a bad signal) Really good work here. You got all my respect because its simple magnificen the work done here. Very clever to find the the needs of this tape BRAVO!
What made this better is that they are performing the Mikado and sang it perfectly. I wish to see the whole film
Thank you! I'll tell my brother (who starred in it).
Fake stereo is annoying- when broadcast TV first went stereo, they ran all mono material though a fake stereo processor. If it's in mono, leave it in mono.
To be honest, fake stero is gimmick-ey and would never be used in a professional remaster. Of course in that case, you'd ideally have multiple mono mics to remix in a stereo image. In this case, I personally thought it sounded better with, so I kept it.
I'm kind of interested in how THAT would have sounded like on TV since most video tape recordings I've seen/heard of mono-to-stereo conversions play back only in mono most likely due to the video players used to record TV programming (linear and Hi-Fi stereo decks were considered more expensive).
3:02 or you could, you know, de-interlace the footage >_>
Probably the easiest route. I vaguely remember trying that and loosing more detail than I wanted, so this non-conventional "reduce interlace flicker" filter in AE gave me a little more control over how much to reduce the interlacing effect.
Another thing: This video was originally produced for DVD, which was going to be viewed on TV. In that case, deinterlacing would not have been appropriate.
Ah yes that would make sense then 😊
A 2009 video on youtube with that quality? Cool!
Very useful video. For new users like myself, a step-by-step would be even more helpful. Thank you for posting this.
Transfer with a time base corrector and frame sync. Use QTGMC to deinterlace with field interpolation for a clean progressive raster. Then upscale with preferred filter. Denoise with Neat Video within a 32bit float environment and then add 5-10% sharpening and some midtone detail. Export with v210 variant.
Thank you, Zachary. This pretty much summarizes what I am going to show in my next video. Good approach.
I must say this is really amezing.
Hi zatzen,
You are right about using a limiter rather than a compressor, thanks for the comment.
- David
This is amazing! I think I'll try to pracrice improving old footage.
Nice remastering
Thank you!
@@DavidMcCoul welcome bro i also subscribe to your channel to see more content like this
I see that blur as well. It's just the smoothness :)
For the video portion, you should really have a look at VirtualDub and some of the MSU plugin filters for it, especially MSU Smart Sharpen, MSU Denoising (better use the 1.x version, as the 2.x version for some reason always crashes on me), and MSU Deblocking (both 1.x and 2.x, check which works for you better). Also a good restoration plugin is dotcrawl by Tacosalad. And the best thing: It's all *FREE* and gives you a thousnd percent better results!
AVI Synth, Virtualdub and MSU all do amazing things for little/no money! All three of them have saved my neck numerous times.
@@wado1942Friend, I have some digitized files from the vhs that have some problems with the horizontal band and I don't know the technique to remove it, if I send you the link of the video for you to visualize, could you help me with a technique to solve this problem?
@@marciociconne7737 That may be difficult but sure
Interesting how to tutorial! I'm usually looking for different ways to convert VHS to DVD
Are you familiar with Arcsofts' Total Media Extreme 2? Can all this be done through them? Also If the VHS footage is already on a DVD can it be restored from that state or does it have to be the original footage. I am trying to improve some old musical footage myself and would appreciate any help with this project since I am a novice at doing video and sound editing. Thanks in advance.
THANKS! You just helped me solve one of my biggest problems for the last few months :)
Now I have another question for you: What codec and bitrate do you recommend to capture my VHS to, to get as much video as possible into a DVD without losing a lot of quality?
Hi there :D
Pretty good for only original ae effects. Is there any specialized plug-in that really does a good job for VHS, including remove the horizontal gray parasites along the frame kind of stuff... ? 😁 Merci
There may be, and there may even be some AI plugin now, but I'm not too familiar with what AE offers currently in that regard. Though I'm sure something out there exists. Good luck!
Can this be done with Sony Vegas 13? If so is there any videos or instructions? I would love to remaster my mums old videos of me when I was younger.
I use a combination of Vegas and Virtualdub. First, digitize the video using the highest quality CODEC possible in Virtualdub. I prefer Logarith in 4:2:2 mode. I use the MSU deinterlace filter (free) in Virtualdub while rendering to a new Logarith file. The MSU filter does a much better job of deinterlacing while preserving the clarity much better than what After Effects has. From there, I bring it into Vegas and use the color correction filter to get the shadows/highlights where I want (sometimes I use the color curves), adjust gamma & saturation etc. There's a variety of sharpening tools and I have the "Neat Video" noise reduction plugin to take care of excessive video noise if that's a problem as well. The key with noise reduction is to only use what you absolutely NEED. I usually tune it so it just takes the edge off the worst noise. Digitally zooming in on the video, even if slightly, damages the already fragile image. If the junk in the overscan region bugs you that much, you can just mask off the edges. It's only a few pixels that the original engineers never expected anybody to see. From there, you can tweak the audio however you like and export in the format you prefer.
Every project is different, so what I do changes. Some projects need almost nothing done to them. Others need A LOT of work just to be watchable. Also, if you plan to watch only on computer (not TV), you can horizontally resize to square pixels. What I mean is, in Europe, digital video is 720 x 576, which will look slightly narrow on a computer's square pixel matrix. It needs to be resized to 768 x 576. In North America, digital video is 720x480, so it has to be resized to 640x480. If you do plan on watching your video on TV, the resize is not necessary and how you go about deinterlacing is different as well.
I would suggest remastering frames in stead of pictures. The colors looked great but the sharpening, in my opinion, made the original better.
so the best that could be done was to increase saturation, which makes things look all candy-like, but not necessarily better. It abates midtones, and inevitably makes the colors look less natural. The cardinal rule is to get it as right as possible in production, and do as little as possible in post. In this case, production value was low, so you can't expect much from the post. (I do sensationalize the results a bit too much in the video, I know.)
Hi! You did a great job on this video. I want to transfer my VHS tape to my pc but some of them have a problem with the audio (I uploaded a video about it). Do you know if there's anything I can do to fix it?
Sorry, there's not much you can do. If it was HiFi VHS, you can copy the audio using the HiFi audio tracks. If it was only linear audio tracks, you're stuck with it.
i liked the new one! thanks for sharing
It might be just me, but it looks like the new footage has a Gaussian Blur compared to the old one.
great job it's night and day. Need to do this to my cine footage I got scanned recently.
EXITMUSIC2011 try not to do much to cine footage, they're naturally pretty good.
Yeah, if it was a good quality scan, there's probably not much to be done. I have a film that I copied to digital video twice. The first one was a budget job and was terrible. The second time, I had a specialist with a flying spot scanner do it and it required no manipulation on my part. He even optically reframed some of my shots (to get my matte box out of the frame) after doing the whole movie in its normal size.
I like the original better, too. Again, not trolling at all.
The video on the remaster shows false sharpness and artificial looking contrast. In other words, it just doesn't look natural. If the only processing had been to remove the video noise and use one pass of the unsharp filter, that would have put it at about what I would personally consider the optimum quality given the source.
To each their own, I suppose.
Hi xargos, Thank you for your comment. I'm replying 6 years later, but better late than never, right? I agree that the result doesn't really look ideal, especially when viewed online. To my eyes, it does look oversharpened and oversaturated. Sadly, the footage was pretty bad to begin with. But this is a good cautionary tale of not getting sucked down into the "too much of a good thing" pitfall: "Oo, sharpening looks great... let's add more! The colors pop with boost... let's add more!"
Your philosophy is best about restoration in general. A good analog is how a museum conservator restores a cherished oeuvre d'art: They only desire to remove dirt, reduce cracking, or the like to diminish the effects of ageing. They may even non-destructively touch up with paint (that is fully removable), but they will never add information to the work. So if a work is damaged in a region where significat information is lost, and they do not have a reference work or photograph, then they will leave it as-is. The same should apply to true remastering: preserve for future generations, while avoiding the addition of information (artifacts/noise) in the process.
This was originally part of a DVD I released for a small audience and was never really intended for UA-cam. But I'm glad I posted it as it showed me that people really are interested in this topic. As such, I should upload another video in the future that shows a proper low-budget remastering process. I used the word "remastering" loosely here. There are clearly better profesisonal examples out there; check out how they remastered the Wizard of Oz-- That's a true remaster. They used advanced film scanning techniques, had teams of interns retouching every single frame, and used many other advanced techinques.
Thanks! This helped.
OMG I NEVER KNEW ANYONE ELSE NOTICED THE TAPE STATIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1:13
Wouldn't you use QTGMC to convert the captured interlaced SD material, and convert it to 486/480/576 progressive footage? That way any interlaced artifacts are removed and the full temporal rate of 50 fps/59.94 fps is retained when uploading online?
Sure, you could use QTGMC scripting to deinterlace. This (rather old!) video just shows one way to do it in After Effects in post. I think I may upload an updated version of this that uses more hardware on the front-end, like a TBC VCR. As is also the case in music and video production, the more you can do with hardware when recording and the less you need to do with software in post, the better the result.
Hi there. I've watched this video over the years, and have really started watching recently as it will help me 'Remaster' my home movies. One thing I cant find a decent tutorial for (I think i may be searching with the wrong term) is for when you remove a peice of damage/unwanted dirt from a frame which has two clean frames either side of it. If that makes sense? Think its digital painting, but most tutorials I search for only bring it up for photo editing :)
Hi! Welcome to my channel :)
My recommendation is to export the video as an image sequence using QuickTime Pro, Final Cut Pro, or the like. Then you can import the frames you wish to "clean" into Photoshop and then manually edit out the dirt or damage using something like the clone stamp tool. Then you can put the other frames plus the edited frames back together into a video again using the same editing programs.
@@DavidMcCoul Hey :). That sounds cool. I have Adobe Premier elements 2018 which comes with photoshop as well, so I think I'll probably have everything I need. That's cool :). Actually quite excited to do some colour correction too. I remember having pinnacle studio 7 back in 2002, and it had nowhere near the features Adobe Elements has now. :)
@@zetandpeligaming Great! You might also have Premiere then, which you can use instead of QuickTime Pro or Final Cut Pro. Let me know how it goes and if you need any more pointers ;)
Plus, it's better to just crop that flickery bottom line in PPro without resizing, so no detail at the top and at the sides gets lost. A small black line down there is much less obvious.
Hmm ...interesting. I don't see what you see-- actually, the newer footage is both more saturated and sharper than the original footage. Take a look at the end of Part 2 for further clarification.
Not at all relevent to those of us looking to remove tape lines and a wobbly picture.
You're right, Brand X. For that you really need a high-end VCR with TBC-correction and the source tapes, if they still exist in playable order. The problem with VHS is that it is not only humidity and temperature sensitive, but the film demagnetizes with time. Also I'm not sure what software can do this, but there might be something out there as Celemony has something similar (called Capstan) for restoring old audio recordings with wow and flutter.
ai upscaling would’ve made this easier!
(yes i know it didn’t exist 11 years ago)
Hi I have an old Vha Video from my daughter's ice skating days could that be remastered
Sure absolutely
Do you offer a service to enhance a transfer VHS to Mp4 format video to a 1080p or 4k level with Audio modifications?
I can. What are you interested in having digitized?
@@DavidMcCoul I converted a VHS to Mp4 format so I what I need is the Mp4 format upgraded and enhance to a 1080p or 4k if possible and on the Audio remove the high pitch sound in the beginning of the video and through out the video as well.
I have an old vhs video that’s about twenty years old. It does not read the video at all. Is there hope by a professional?
There might be. How was the tape stored? Was there water damage? Is there visible white powder (mold) on the tape? Are there black flakes?
Meh, different strokes for different folks, I guess. It depends on what you like. If you're into that vintage feel, then yeah, the original's better! Otherwise, I think the biggest improvement I made was to the audio track. Night and day, in my opinion. The video is debatable-- I didn't have as much to work with. The optics and CMOS of that 1990s camera were basically nonexistent, so sharpening could only give mediocre results. Also, the color depth of the original was severely lacking,
Is it possible if I could remaster a Apollo 11 launch??
Sure anything is possible!
@@DavidMcCoul Woah man you're STILL replying to comments after 12 years! So cool!
why do some unremastered films not have tape static
Which program did you use to remaster this footage?
Can you make a new version? I would really appreciate it.
Working on it! Glad you liked the video. The new one will place more emphasis on VHS capture methods, but I'll also cover digital processing too. Stay tuned!
@@DavidMcCoul You should use the same VHS clip and compare both restorations. I'm sure you've improved with your techniques, but the technology has as well.
hi, what is the name of this software ?
I think I can do this with this years Nero as a substitute, lad.
Hi Kevin, Nero Editor 2018 does have some pretty advanced features now that look similar to AE. Do you use Nero? Anyway I find it funny how much attention this video is still getting. It's now almost 10 years old!
Of course I use Nero, lad, even the latest versions.
Thanks for visiting my channel, LAD!
Would you update the description for part 2?
What do you mean? It's up-to-date, even though it's an old video.
the tape static is how I can say I know you used a vhs for this and then they say how did you know?????
2:46 Why didn't you deinterlace the video properly before destroying the quality of two combine images? It was a 60fps video after all.
The video wasn't captured at 60 fps. I captured it at half that. The problem with deinterlacing is you loose information and detail by doing so. Therefore I did not "destroy" any quality with this approach, and the result is sharper. Also bear in mind this was recorded on a camcorder to VHS in the 1990s. The quality was already absolutely terrible. Thanks for watching.
One more thing: I originally produced this video for DVD, which was being viewed mostly on TV. In that case, deinterlacing would not have been appropriate.
@@DavidMcCoul If you recorded this from a camcorder, then the original was shot in 60fps. I would know older camcorder could never change the frame rate since there wasn't an option to. Plus if it was recorded on to a VHS, the real resolution should be 240x333 so that would be 240 line down at 60fps and 333 pixel across if you transfer digitally since VHS doesn't have much detail on the tape moving across the drum head anyway..
Now you can get more detail in the image if it was shot at 30fps with 480 lines, but you don't know much about camcorder then I do, especially those that were made in the 90s
what kind of weird footage is this anyways
can you use a dvd to remastered and restore
Good software, indeed, but I'm using new version called 1:44, it's far better!
Hey, I need a video tape cleaned up and remastered for my divorce. It contains evidence of things said. It is mostly text I'm looking for. Can I send you the tape?
Man, I wish I saw this two years ago.
So this software costs what $888.88?
Any free software to do the same remastering old vhs tapes?
I got like 365 VHS tapes needing converted to DVD, somebody please throw me a bone, anyone hello please plkease???
thanks
For the audio part - you can do the same things he did using Audacity and its built-in plugins. Audacity is completely free ;)
Almost everything he did with the video can be done with similar or greater quality in VirtualDub. Use the MSU deinterlacing filter (3rd party). Don't enlarge the video to get rid of that junk in the overscan region though, it does nasty stuff (especially when watching on a TV).
I just need a good 4 head VCR able to track the tape well and my Magnavox DVD recorder with its ability to latch onto the video better than anything I've seen. Processing on a computer takes away the 60fps look of the original and looks like garbage.
A lot of what you did with software can be done realtime with the Sima Color Corrector.
You don't have to deinterlace the video if you don't want. It just looks better if you're watching on a computer. I regularly remaster old tapes with only slight tweaks to the video levels. BTW, if you think a consumer-grade 4-head deck copied straight to DVD in real time looks good, you would be amazed at what a professional S-VHS editor captured to uncompressed digital and exported off-line can do.
compressing already heavily compressed sounding audio (and this was such, because it seemed to be recorded by a camcorder that usually compress audio like hell) even once more is no good idea. you should simply have used a limiter to get rid of the peaks. or leave the audio job to an audio nerd ...
The software cost too much money. It is probably better to send it out to get it done
Well, so do I... No trolling...
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@dubified89 trololol...
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Use speed 1.5x thank me later.
Hi Hasanofy, Thank you! And thank UA-cam for giving us the option to speed up verbose how-to vids ;)
Thank you for the amazing video David, I guess I might be a bit hyper-active ;p lol