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Hi...well I decided to have a little play with the newly fixed captions and yes, more issues.
I use a 2K monitor, which means that when manipulating screen grabs I don't loose resolution or fidelity. It also means I can see imperfections that can mbe harder to see on an HD monitor.
Point in fact, the screen grabs of the chair for the new titles have issues. There are not that many frames before The Godfather Part II caption appear...3 Secs before and 1 or 2 secs after. Now, this is from the restoration version and there are still specs and flecks visible...so, using a little contrast and gamma trickery, I've taken the best 3 frames, and chosen the best one. I've then taken the other two, and where there is an imperfection, I've done what restorers do, snip a clean piece from another frame and paste it in over the imperfection.
I now have a clean plate.
The chair shot from the AMC version is not suitable, for a few reasons I will explain tomorrow when I answe or the question I left hanging in my previous post.
Now I need to decide how to best add in the new captions. I have a few choices, rotoscope, overlay, or assembled stills overlays with animation. That would actually be the best, but has issues of creating 26 perfectly aligned stills, so that whe you cross fade between them, the chair is pixel perfectly positioned. Root would take too long, and overlay will look poor. Adding in captions with a title generator would be far easier but as I said, every font I found had issues, so no go. Even AMC appear to have made a W for their credits and it is just the wrong W. So, I will carry on with rebuilding a clean stable opening. I mean, I could just open like the theatrical versions, but that is not what any of the chronological versions do, and I'm not going to take the easy way out...NOPE!
I will need to run a few tests since I want to faithfully achieve the quasi glow cross fade. This may require quite a bit of work, but I may get lucky.
When I started this, I had no idea the rabbit hole this would end up being. I just thought, rearrange part 2, bolt on Young Vito to the beginning and Michael on the end....nope, it ain't the quick.
The titles have to be great right down to the Paramount logo. I mean, if you watch that thing..the classic 70s one, there is frame registration jitter and animation overlay jitter in different directions that screams "not as restored as you think". Now, the funny thing is, many films which undergo restoration are subjected to removing that flickering registration error, and the GF trilogy of films have enjoyed that. The films are all fairly stable however, someone decided to skip the opening and closing credits. So I decided to try to fix it. I've waited a long time to be able to do this, and CODA finally made it possible, so I may as well do it to the best of my abilities.
I hope the little video about the captions gives you a sense of the challenge.
Back with more madness tomorrow.
W
Hi...well I decided to have a little play with the newly fixed captions and yes, more issues.
I use a 2K monitor, which means that when manipulating screen grabs I don't loose resolution or fidelity. It also means I can see imperfections that can mbe harder to see on an HD monitor.
Point in fact, the screen grabs of the chair for the new titles have issues. There are not that many frames before The Godfather Part II caption appear...3 Secs before and 1 or 2 secs after. Now, this is from the restoration version and there are still specs and flecks visible...so, using a little contrast and gamma trickery, I've taken the best 3 frames, and chosen the best one. I've then taken the other two, and where there is an imperfection, I've done what restorers do, snip a clean piece from another frame and paste it in over the imperfection.
I now have a clean plate.
The chair shot from the AMC version is not suitable, for a few reasons I will explain tomorrow when I answe or the question I left hanging in my previous post.
Now I need to decide how to best add in the new captions. I have a few choices, rotoscope, overlay, or assembled stills overlays with animation. That would actually be the best, but has issues of creating 26 perfectly aligned stills, so that whe you cross fade between them, the chair is pixel perfectly positioned. Root would take too long, and overlay will look poor. Adding in captions with a title generator would be far easier but as I said, every font I found had issues, so no go. Even AMC appear to have made a W for their credits and it is just the wrong W. So, I will carry on with rebuilding a clean stable opening. I mean, I could just open like the theatrical versions, but that is not what any of the chronological versions do, and I'm not going to take the easy way out...NOPE!
I will need to run a few tests since I want to faithfully achieve the quasi glow cross fade. This may require quite a bit of work, but I may get lucky.
When I started this, I had no idea the rabbit hole this would end up being. I just thought, rearrange part 2, bolt on Young Vito to the beginning and Michael on the end....nope, it ain't the quick.
The titles have to be great right down to the Paramount logo. I mean, if you watch that thing..the classic 70s one, there is frame registration jitter and animation overlay jitter in different directions that screams "not as restored as you think". Now, the funny thing is, many films which undergo restoration are subjected to removing that flickering registration error, and the GF trilogy of films have enjoyed that. The films are all fairly stable however, someone decided to skip the opening and closing credits. So I decided to try to fix it. I've waited a long time to be able to do this, and CODA finally made it possible, so I may as well do it to the best of my abilities.
I hope the little video about the captions gives you a sense of the challenge.
Back with more madness tomorrow.
W