| Chief Mouse 01.08.2014 14:03 |
I dare to call this one a restoration instead of a simple clean-up as I usually do. Why is that? Here you will see. Before you download the video please watch this (on youtube below) or download here a sample so I can avoid making screenshots (video shows it better anyway) - https://mega.co.nz/#!WN020AQS!4ArhzvP7J7DB1hnZYkFIkjA2JQ6iZ2lwg8lnNgZhoHQ * Some time ago on some other thread I uploaded a compare sample of this already but it is outdated as it looks much worse than it does at the end * Something to note - 1) Why not a DVD? - I hate the outdated MPEG-2 compression which makes you to render stuff with about 9000 bitrate and it still looks worse than encoded with H.264 2500-3500 bitrate. So there's waste of bandwidth for me. Also I don't want to do authoring and make menus because once I do I want to make it look cool and interactive sort of with After Effects animation. That takes way too much time. 2) Why 640x480? - well, it's smaller file size that way and there is no considerable detail or pixels lost because as we know the source is shitty VHS which originally is even smaller resolution than 640x480. If there's anything you want to know feel free to ask :-) All I can say is that it was pain in ass but at the end it turned out rather well in my opinion. https://mega.co.nz/#!jQc1FBbR!mCs9UGbA1GKzQxpYcXoMsmem3Lm1mLiPUTGw7kN2GNg |
| Marknow 01.08.2014 14:06 |
Chief Mouse I like your the cut of your jib. |
| The Real Wizard 01.08.2014 14:31 |
Brilliantly done ! Tell me you do this professionally. |
| Chief Mouse 01.08.2014 14:42 |
The Real Wizard wrote: Brilliantly done ! Tell me you do this professionally.Thanks. No, that's just a hobby :) I like messing around with videos and trying out some new things. - - - As a sidenote, I forgot to mention that I filled in the blank gaps in the audio stream (Under Pressure & Keep Yourself Alive). |
| jazz 1979 01.08.2014 15:15 |
This is fantastic thankyou kindly :-) |
| MadTheSwine73 01.08.2014 15:33 |
This is great, thanks so much Chief Mouse! |
| MERQRY 01.08.2014 16:01 |
Brillant!! Many Thanks! |
| rubens 01.08.2014 16:58 |
Amazing! You are a pro! |
| dive2063 01.08.2014 17:08 |
This is a great improvement ) Thanks a lot!! |
| Nitroboy 01.08.2014 20:05 |
Holy balls of fire, this is probably the best we will ever get, considering how shitty the source is. It looks very similar to the official videos GREAT JOB :D |
| Rokku 01.08.2014 23:28 |
Very Nice, Chief you must work in QP, your works seems better than they do. And audio is pretty cool, what was original source? |
| MackMantilla 02.08.2014 02:47 |
Great improvement! Thank you so much :) |
| jabbo5150 02.08.2014 03:14 |
thanks! |
| Rami 02.08.2014 04:08 |
Great! Thank you very much!! |
| Vali 02.08.2014 04:13 |
just downloaded; fantastic job, Chief !! thanks ! |
| cmi 02.08.2014 04:29 |
It's fabulous! Thanks. |
| Raffy 02.08.2014 05:21 |
Very nice, thanks a lot! :) |
| angelrulax 02.08.2014 05:35 |
Thank you, good job. |
| NickESB 02.08.2014 06:09 |
Why isn't there a D...no, only joking. This looks incredible, thank you so much for your continued hard work. And an even bigger thank you for not bothering with a DVD. This way we can truly appreciate your restoration attempt. |
| Snow 02.08.2014 12:13 |
What's your next project? :) |
| Chief Mouse 02.08.2014 12:24 |
Snow wrote: What's your next project? :) Not sure yet. |
| Nitroboy 02.08.2014 13:15 |
What do you reckon can be done with the 1st night? |
| Chief Mouse 02.08.2014 13:57 |
Nitroboy wrote: What do you reckon can be done with the 1st night? Nothing much. It looks bad. Perhaps I would be able to do something with it but it wouldn't make it look much better. I'll try out some things though. If there happens a miracle and I do manage to make it look good I will share it. |
| ARMANDO MARTINEZ 02.08.2014 14:02 |
Wow! That's amazing!What software did you use to remove the flashing/flickering bright color lines? It looks so "smooth"! Congrats and thanks! |
| Gregsynth 02.08.2014 14:03 |
Anything Chief Mouse touches turns to gold - so I always look forward to his projects. |
| Chief Mouse 02.08.2014 14:22 |
ARMANDO MARTINEZ wrote: Wow! That's amazing!What software did you use to remove the flashing/flickering bright color lines? It looks so "smooth"! Congrats and thanks! Thanks. Mainly Avisynth + plus After Effects and Virtualdub for a few other specific things :) It's the first time I've used After Effects for video improving and processing instead of VFX (VFX is what this software is originally meant for). Thing with this video was that it has fine luma but messed up chroma (colours). I temporally processed chroma with Avisynth and Virtualdub but that affected luma as well and it didn't look the best at the end. So I thought "if only there was a way I could add chroma from this video onto the greyscale luma video". I found that After Effects can do just that with 'color overlay mode'. Overall this video took many rendering passes (I forgot how many, lol). A couple of passes to fix the chroma flickering which was tricky. Another pass rendering the source video simply in greyscale so that I can get luma. Then I aligned the fixed chroma video with the luma video in After Effects (basically put only colour from one video on a b&w video). And another pass of overall enhancing through Avisynth and Virtualdub and the last pass simple encode with H.264 to MKV which I uploaded on this thread. Hope some of this answers your question regarding softwares :-) |
| BETA215 02.08.2014 14:56 |
Gregsynth wrote: Anything Chief Mouse touches turns to gold - so I always look forward to his projects. And he's buying a stairway to heaven? ______________________________________________________ Thanks Chief Mouse for the restoration! |
| vivaqueen 02.08.2014 15:43 |
MERCI BEAUCOUP FANTASTICOOOOO |
| people on streets 02.08.2014 16:10 |
Thanks for another great video. Maybe it's an idea to create a list, with links, of all the projects you've done so far. Or post them in one topic wich can be updated. |
| Chief Mouse 02.08.2014 16:18 |
people on streets wrote: Thanks for another great video. Maybe it's an idea to create a list, with links, of all the projects you've done so far. Or post them in one topic wich can be updated. Thanks for the idea. But I am not sure that would work because I like to write down some info and notes and post comparison pictures. It would be quite a huge thread which I am not sure I would be willing to update from time to time. For me easier it's just to create a new thread for each upload. Your idea could be useful if I decide to make a thread with a list of links to threads of already uploaded videos. Is this what you meant? |
| fjac1980 02.08.2014 22:34 |
Inmediately downloading!!! Thanks |
| dekipema 03.08.2014 08:21 |
Thank you, great work!! Thrilled with so much joy ?(·?·)? |
| little foetus 03.08.2014 15:00 |
Thanks, looks great! |
| people on streets 03.08.2014 20:46 |
Chief Mouse wrote:Yes.people on streets wrote: Thanks for another great video. Maybe it's an idea to create a list, with links, of all the projects you've done so far. Or post them in one topic wich can be updated.Thanks for the idea. But I am not sure that would work because I like to write down some info and notes and post comparison pictures. It would be quite a huge thread which I am not sure I would be willing to update from time to time. For me easier it's just to create a new thread for each upload. Your idea could be useful if I decide to make a thread with a list of links to threads of already uploaded videos. Is this what you meant? |
| musicland munich 03.08.2014 22:36 |
Good job ! What a nice upgrade. Thank you Chief :) |
| GuitarMay 05.08.2014 17:21 |
Thanks a lot Chief Mouse ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! I'm very grateful you answer my request :) What an incredible restoration you did in this video too !!! \o/ Compared to the original video, we can say it was a professional job !! You don't think of working at Queen Productions? ;) I'm very happing :) THANKS AGAIN |
| Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon 06.08.2014 03:58 |
Many thanks Chief Mouse for the fantastic work! |
| Jay Mantis 06.08.2014 07:37 |
Thanks! Great work! |
| Maruga 08.08.2014 08:20 |
Thank you very much, but I don't know how to download it from Mega :( |
| Nitroboy 08.08.2014 08:23 |
Maruga wrote: Thank you very much, but I don't know how to download it from Mega :( 1) Open the link 2) Click "Download to your computer" 3) ??? 4) Done, enjoy |
| Maruga 08.08.2014 08:54 |
It doesn't start |
| kevukuk 10.08.2014 12:02 |
Just grabbed this one,thanks Chief Mouse. |
| tomchristie22 15.10.2014 23:08 |
This is incredible. Thank you! |
| hobbit in Rhye 26.04.2015 14:31 |
Tremendous work Chief, thank you ^^ And what a great setlist it has (that went to all The Work Tour setlists). I just wish we had a better audio instead of what seemed like from dozen different sources. "Keep Yourself Alive" and "Dragon Attack" are beautiful nonetheless. |
| dajalma 29.10.2017 00:47 |
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| Chinwonder2 29.10.2017 08:18 |
dajalma wrote: pleasse repostHere you go: link -Chin :) |
| dajalma 29.10.2017 23:03 |
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| bias_head 11.07.2019 10:39 |
Thank you, Chinwonder! |
| Rael 17.07.2019 19:48 |
Thanks for this!! |