OK, How to do This?

JJKizak wrote on 10/26/2006, 9:48 AM
Imported a DVD made by my buddy into V7 no problem. He shot the video off of a white screen with vertical patterns in the screen with a Sony 8mm camcorder while the 8mm film was being projected onto the screen. These vertical light /dark "smudge patterns" are absolutely stationary throughout the duration of the film. They are very visable with the white snow areas and almost invisable in the dark areas. How would I get rid of these vertical things?

JJK

Comments

Jay-Hancock wrote on 10/26/2006, 10:05 AM
If it were stills in PhotoShop, seems like you could take a snapshot of the screen with only a white image projected, to capture the smudge patterns. Then you could create a mask from that using one of the masking modes (subtract? difference?). Seems like the same thing could be done in Vegas. In theory...
richard-courtney wrote on 10/26/2006, 12:21 PM
I would agree with subtract except each level of white woulf be equally subtracted.
You may need to use Photoshop and change the NON offending levels to black.

Then repeat as needed. Mostly trial and error.

Let us know how it works out.
JJKizak wrote on 10/26/2006, 2:22 PM
I have tried some V7 stuff, linear blur at about 80 to 100 horizontal only but it does blur everything, but not too bad. Also messed with the luminence white stuff. I have Adobe Elements 2.0 and Corel Graphics 12 but not familiar with layers and alphas.
JJK
richard-courtney wrote on 10/26/2006, 3:03 PM
Is there anyway you can post a still of the white screen and a scene from the video?
Many here would be glad to try to come up with a solution for you.
Jim H wrote on 10/26/2006, 5:12 PM
How about duplicate the track above. Pan crop slightly to one side or the other, then feather mask around the defective area so that only a sliver of good footage from the upper track covers up the defect?
JJKizak wrote on 10/27/2006, 5:43 AM
I don't know how to post pictures on this forum. I can post easily on other forums and I wish we could do that here. I can send it "E" mail easily.
JJK
richard-courtney wrote on 10/27/2006, 10:28 AM
Check with your internet provider. Many offer a small amount of space with
your account for home pages. You then FTP the file to the folder they tell you.
I use WSFTP from http://www.ipswitch.com/products/ws_ftp/home/index.asp

They will have instructions on how to access your webpage folder.

Many here don't post our email address on the forum because of spam
harvesters. You can IM me by clicking the "Posted by" name and sending
me your email address. I will reply to that one and you can send your images back.
bevross wrote on 10/27/2006, 12:57 PM
Don't have a solution except to suggest that the 8mm film transfer be done more professionally than videotape from a projected image! And, you're trying to edit it from a mpeg transferred from the DVD -- so you're working from a degraded image (mpeg) of another degraded image (original transfer). I actually tried to do the same thing: edit mpeg files that my sister had a friend do via taping a projected image. The stuff was so bad (and I felt I was wasting much time editing with this footage) I had it redone by a lab specializing in this stuff, who could also provide the footage as a DV (avi) file. Granted, it's rather expensive (they also cleaned the film, joined small reels, repaired splices, and put onto new, archive-quality reels). Alternatively -- the guy that did this on the funky sheet should redo (if money was paid for it).

Search telecine in this forum for other ideas.

Here's I a little clip where I compared an old transfer to the new work. Titles show the "old" vs. "new" section.

To view, it's probably better to right click on the link, pick "Save As," and save to your computer to view (file's about 33MB):

Sample Transfer

Here's the lab that did my work (there are other such labs; I have no financial interest in this business):
http://colorlab.com/archives/home_movie.htm