Feb 17, 2021, 00:18 am
SO... thank you RowsdowerRevenge for the DVD quality version of Outlaw of Gor!
So.. while it was a decent 16:9 format at low Rez that was recorded from what appeared to be VHS... I was able to cut up the segments of the video and wash it through iMovie to get a better brightness and contrast with the different scenes... I also reset the white point and skin tones in several scenes to lighten up the darker scenes while keeping the desert and other outdoor scenes normal without looking totally washed out. I also scaled back a bit on the color saturation as VHS colors tend to bleed... so that may help in the ‘crispness’ of the new edit. It’s now in Topaz with a very low AI filter to clean up the grain and sharpen the edges. We’ll see what it looks like in about 18 hours. After that, I’ll throw it back into iMovie for the audio syncing. Once syncing is complete, I’ll throw it into Handbrake to compress it into .H265 and add the subtitles. I’ll try to keep the final product under 2 gigs.
For those of you about to bash iMovie, I spoke at length with a professional photographer buddy of mine that also does video... he mentioned that while iMovie does not have some of the details that Premiere has, it’s currently far more powerful that it’s predecessors and for what I’m doing with old movies... it’s actually a perfect match.
So.. while it was a decent 16:9 format at low Rez that was recorded from what appeared to be VHS... I was able to cut up the segments of the video and wash it through iMovie to get a better brightness and contrast with the different scenes... I also reset the white point and skin tones in several scenes to lighten up the darker scenes while keeping the desert and other outdoor scenes normal without looking totally washed out. I also scaled back a bit on the color saturation as VHS colors tend to bleed... so that may help in the ‘crispness’ of the new edit. It’s now in Topaz with a very low AI filter to clean up the grain and sharpen the edges. We’ll see what it looks like in about 18 hours. After that, I’ll throw it back into iMovie for the audio syncing. Once syncing is complete, I’ll throw it into Handbrake to compress it into .H265 and add the subtitles. I’ll try to keep the final product under 2 gigs.
For those of you about to bash iMovie, I spoke at length with a professional photographer buddy of mine that also does video... he mentioned that while iMovie does not have some of the details that Premiere has, it’s currently far more powerful that it’s predecessors and for what I’m doing with old movies... it’s actually a perfect match.