Remasters Are The Ultimate Labor of Love

[Zarxrax]

I spent the weekend thinking and doing some research into available sources and stuff, and I've decided that I want to put a serious effort towards remastering a number of older videos. I don't have much in the way of original ideas these days, so it seems like a fun project for me. I've probably got about 10 videos lined up now. Maybe I'm getting in a little over my head, so maybe I'll just keep quiet about it until I get at least one or two finished.

[the Black Monarch]

I just remembered the time many years ago when I started doing a remaster of Jesmaster's End of Evangelion / Dragula video. I should get back to that.

[Zarxrax]

I came across an interesting situation in a video that I am remastering, and I'm looking for input on the ideal way to handle it.

A lot of older videos are encoded at 29.97fps, so you get a lot of frames blended together. So when remaking it, whenever I have a blended frame at a scene cut, I'll just go with a frame from one scene or the other (I don't consider it necessary to blend the frames together, because I see that as a side effect of the technology of the time, and not an artistic choice by the creator).

However, I came across one scene cut where one field of the blended frame is NOT from the scene either before or after. So basically the creator accidentally let a single field from an incorrect scene appear by mistake.

So, what would be the best way to handle this accidental field?
1) Just replace with with the 'correct' frame, since I haven't been reproducing frame blends anyways
2) Put the 'accidental' shot in as a full frame (but this would make it far more apparent than in the original)
3) Reproduce the frame blend for this one frame.

[seasons]

I would say choice #1, just my opinion though.

It wasn't their intent to have that slip in, I think you can assume that with confidence.

[Zarxrax]

While I'm also leaning towards #1, I want to be careful that I am not adding improvements to the editing beyond just the visual quality, as its not really my place to be thinking about what the creator might have intended or not, and then try to better realize their vision than they did. I think if it was a full frame, I would probably keep it in there like that. But knowing that it was just a single field makes it a more difficult decision, since we no longer work with these archaic things known as fields

[Castor Troy]

I spent the weekend thinking and doing some research into available sources and stuff, and I've decided that I want to put a serious effort towards remastering a number of older videos. I don't have much in the way of original ideas these days, so it seems like a fun project for me. I've probably got about 10 videos lined up now. Maybe I'm getting in a little over my head, so maybe I'll just keep quiet about it until I get at least one or two finished.

Remaster Smooth Criminal!

[Zarxrax]

Remaster Smooth Criminal!

Haha, I'm not even sure if those sources are all available in HD or not. And I hate doing rotoscoping, even for a few seconds.

[Castor Troy]

Remaster Smooth Criminal!

Haha, I'm not even sure if those sources are all available in HD or not. And I hate doing rotoscoping, even for a few seconds.

Why do you think I retired?

[seasons]

I just remembered the time many years ago when I started doing a remaster of Jesmaster's End of Evangelion / Dragula video. I should get back to that.

Are you going to?

[the Black Monarch]

I just remembered the time many years ago when I started doing a remaster of Jesmaster's End of Evangelion / Dragula video. I should get back to that.

Are you going to?

Hey, that's a good idea!