#1  
11-16-2022, 02:33 AM
JFStahl JFStahl is offline
Free Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2022
Posts: 1
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Years ago my Uncle had his 8mm film Home Movies transferred to VHS. He did not have any restoration done at the time. Before he past away, I am not sure if he had the Film or the VHS Tapes transferred to DVD. Any way we no longer have the Film copies.

When we view the DVD's some of the scenes have a foggy look to them and some you can hardly see the action.

Is it possible to restore or at least clean up some of the the video clips myself?

I have attached a clip.

Thanks in advance.


Attached Files
File Type: mp4 1950 -1963 Avery-Stahl Family Videos 2 of 2.mp4 (2.31 MB, 17 downloads)
Reply With Quote
Someday, 12:01 PM
admin's Avatar
Ads / Sponsors
 
Join Date: ∞
Posts: 42
Thanks: ∞
Thanked 42 Times in 42 Posts
  #2  
11-16-2022, 06:06 AM
lollo2 lollo2 is offline
Free Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Italy
Posts: 673
Thanked 189 Times in 163 Posts
More appropriate:
"This topic is about transferring old 8mm/Super 8 films to digital media, but only indirectly : it supposes that the transfer has already happened (in this case, to DVD format), but that it was so badly done as to be painful to look at (especially considering the price paid). This, unfortunately, seems to be a not uncommon occurrence."
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=161493

Generic:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=144271

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=174298

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=165975

A channel on S-VHS / VHS capture and AviSynth restoration https://bit.ly/3mHWbkN
Reply With Quote
  #3  
11-16-2022, 06:31 AM
timtape timtape is offline
Free Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2020
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 536
Thanked 100 Times in 90 Posts
Yes this is a common scenario. Even the best scans of 8mm film from 30 years ago were not really faithful to the films. The best technology today is excellent but many scans today still fall well short of the mark. Scanning even 8mm home movies film is difficult, at least to extract everything on them with fidelity. So much hangs on a good original capture. It's a shame many original films were destroyed before a good copy had been made. When so much of the original picture quality never made it to the copy, not a lot can be done to restore that copy.

But this has gone on for over 100 years. Many people threw out their original camera negatives, only keeping the inferior paper print copies.

Last edited by timtape; 11-16-2022 at 06:48 AM.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
11-16-2022, 07:29 AM
Hushpower Hushpower is offline
Free Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2020
Posts: 703
Thanked 131 Times in 124 Posts
We have a few AVISynth experts here (I'm not one of them!). That will be the process to best get these videos improved.

I would suggest you post another sample at a much higher bitrate, say 6,000kbps or CRF 16, and 720x576 PAL or 720x480 NTSC and see what the experts can do with it. They certainly can be improved. By how much is the $64,000 question!
Reply With Quote
  #5  
11-25-2022, 11:28 AM
Selur Selur is offline
Free Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2022
Posts: 70
Thanked 18 Times in 16 Posts
A snipped of the source (the dvd) would be way more useful than an MPEG-4 ASP clip.
About the colors: some AutoWhite (or grayworld) followed by some HDR->SDR filter (i.e. https://github.com/Asd-g/avslibplacebo) helps a bit. Spotless, NCTemporalDenoise help with some of the dirt:


Cu Selur
Reply With Quote
Reply




Tags
foggy, home, movies, restore

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Workflow advice for VHS home movies? licehead Project Planning, Workflows 6 09-20-2020 04:02 PM
VHS home movies to DVD recorder? emmykat690 Encode, Convert for discs 3 11-06-2019 05:26 PM
Workflow suggestions: home movies, all VHS, different formats? IcoPro Project Planning, Workflows 1 08-12-2019 09:24 PM
How to fix rainbow effect on home movies? Roquefort Capture, Record, Transfer 3 02-14-2017 07:56 AM
Converting home movies -- need advice Jpass992 Capture, Record, Transfer 10 07-17-2013 08:04 PM

Thread Tools



 
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:30 AM