Roundhay Garden Scene Enhanced Using Free Software
This film is the Roundhay Garden Scene, shot in 1888 by Louis Le Prince. It is believed to be the oldest surviving motion picture.
Original source image used:
Science Museum Group. Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene. 2019-259Science Museum Group Collection Online. Accessed 18 May 2020. collection.sci....
* Note - If you want to download the original source negative, make sure to use the viewer and download options, don't just right click and 'save image' because you will not get the best source possible that way.
Gimp
www.gimp.org/
Free alternative to Photoshop. I used this for cropping, rotating, and repairing damaged part of the images as well as adjusting color and light and dark levels.
Darktable
www.darktable....
Free alternative to Lightroom. I used this for enhancing the color of a single frame, the one of the composite background without the characters. This can also be done in Gimp.
Waifu2x-caffe
github.com/nag...
github.com/llt...
Free software converting low-res images into high-res, also known as up-scaling. At its core is the open source project Waifu2x. The software I used is a binary compiled specifically for Windows, called Waifu2x-caffe.
DAIN-App
grisk.itch.io/...
github.com/bao...
Free video interpolation software, add additional frames where there are non. This is also an open source software called DAIN, but has been made into an app for Windows called Dain-app.
Deoldify
deoldify.ai/
github.com/jan...
Free Video Editing Software
Since this project involved a very short video/movie/motion picture, video editing software was used very little. Most of the editing was done on the individual frames and the heavy lifting was done with the help of AI from Waifu2x, DAIN, and Deoldify. The video editor was use to convert the images into a file, and also to do some basic masking to overlay a video over top of an image. Here are some good, free, open source videos to check out. I used all while playing around with this project, but could have used any one of them to achieve the end result.
kdenlive.org/
www.olivevideo...
ffmpeg.org/ * advanced / command line only
shotcut.org/ * Use ad block, they have ads for non-free video editing software that tricks a lot of their visitors!
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Fantastic demonstration of what is possible with free software. Videos like this are terrific to show what programs are useful for what effects. Showing your workflow is priceless. Thanks so much for the guidance. Looking forward to your next video.
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Rolland. That's exactly what I was hoping to show with this video!
Nice work man. The maker of the film and those people would be honoured I'm sure.
Amazing job with the Roundhay Garden Scene! Thanks for sharing and greetings from Santiago de Chile 🇨🇱☺️
@TJFREE
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks J.Pablo !
That was brilliant Ryndon! You've brought them all to life. And all open source too, from go to whoa! I would love to see more of this where you are utilising multiple software towards a larger project/goal. Thanks 😮
Excellent demonstration of how to combine several FOSS tools to solve a larger creative problem. Nice work, man. 👍
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
in 150 years people will do this to your video, "upscaling" it into a 3D VR environment, injected directly into your thought process.
Wow,impressive project Great finds (new editing programs) Thanks for sharing👍😀
This is fantastic! So much information and as usual so well done. I knew about GIMP of course, and Darktable, but I didn't even know you could do high-res and interpolation with open source wares. Sweet!
Crazy cool that this powerful of software is free for the most part
@TJFREE
3 жыл бұрын
I agree, 100%!
Terrific work. Worth more attention. Thumps up for this.
Amazing that people can do this with todays technology. Keep u the great work dude !
Amazing! I'd love to know exactly where that house is so I can compare the video with it today (I know it's Oakwood Grange, Roundhay, Leeds, but looks like it may now just be modern houses there). I found Joseph and Sarah on the 1881 census living at Oakley Cottage - wherever that is, if it still exists.
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Danny. I had the same thought. Unfortunately, from what I've read, it was torn down in the 1970s...
Impressive restoration!
Really great, nice idea to give new life to old film.
This was amazing, great work and demonstration of skills
Omfg, mindblowing! :O Beautiful work! Also didn't know waifu2x's free, good to know! :) Thanks so much for sharing!
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, and you're welcome!
Jesus Christ, what a wonderful job, amazing in all words, keep doing these works of art.
The power of Free & Open Source app !!!! And of course your creativity 🔥
Literally my favorite movie
Been looking round for old colour film videos and found this. I had no idea I was going to find free software out of it :) thanks,
@TJFREE
3 жыл бұрын
Glad I could help!
@Pauldjreadman
3 жыл бұрын
@@TJFREE I have been watching a lot of restoration videos.
Impressive work on this! Thanks for the info!! 👍
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jay!
i dont know why i am getting nostalgia looking at such an old movie....
Damn!, You are so underrated to do this with only free sofware! Another channel named Denis Sharyeiv made this too but your video is more informative, and, actually better than Denis, but I wish it would've been in 4K. Subbed!
very helpful video and sources. Thanks
Fantastic work, Ryndon! 😁 And really great video! It was real interesting seeing your whole process and how it was all possible of FOSS programs! One question: When you exported the video out of Shotcut, Kdenlive and Olive did you use the lossless preset HuffYUV? That way there was no quality loss when going from render to render. By the way, do you think you can make tutorials for Waifu2x and DAIN?
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I did try to always export the images and video in Lossless. I ended up doing this complete project from the start 3 times, and did it different each time. I'm pretty sure I could get the same end results without even using a video editor, just ffmpeg and gimp (and the AI tools)! Yes, I have tutorials already made for the AI software and they will come out over the next few days. Also, I watched your latest Shotcut video, very cool!
I'm actually kinda curious what the guy who originally took the video would think of it after you showed him the upscaled one. (if you could.)
Great work! You could skip the manual video stabilisation (alignment and rotation) by running: ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf vidstabdetect -f null - ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf vidstabtransform=input="transforms.trf" output.mkv It works fine with low-fps videos too, I tested.
Very, very nice!. I think your end result vid was posted on Reddit a feew times over the last few weeks and without Credit too. You deserve more views.
For interpolation on videos, I use a software called Hybrid. The interpolation works pretty well, and it works on very low-end hardware. (I would use Dain, but I don't have very good hardware.)
Wonderful work Ryndon! Is Avisynth comparable to any of the tools you used here? Have you used Film9 FOSS restoration software?
that’s cool. now i see how it is done .
When I mention about FOSS or some alternatives to the "industry standard" softwares, people look at me like I'm an alien and say "but, it's an industry standard. So, that's what you should buy". I try to explain them going for an "industry standard" which is basically at a second hand car price is no different than buying a Ferrari for going to shopping. They still don't understand and insist that I limit myself with alternative or open source software. Next time, I won't argue with those people, I'll just direct them this video..
Excellent work
Really amazing job.
@TJFREE
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
wow how far we have come.
Only one thing when you upscaled you had 64 times more information (1000x100 ---> 8000x8000) you had 64MP witch is 2x8k or 8x4k or 32cFHD. Good work!
Beautiful work. Tell me : What’s the picture on your desktop)?
This video was amazing!
@TJFREE
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Angel!
That is fantastic, thank you really great description of what is possible with the software. Thanks for the tip on graphic cards as I am currently exploring options, Are you open to answer technical questions from beginners?
This is amazing if only I had a good PC I would be all over this, perhaps in the future I'll be able to use these softwares.
Excellent video. I can't help but think there's probably a good method out there to automatically even out the blotchy exposure between frames. The background replacement was a pretty cool solution though.
Hello, is there a program that can do this or at least something similar that doesn't require Nvidia graphics card?
Nah, i ll wait until we reach to the point when i only need to rub the computer to go .. puff and asks ''Yes master, your wish?''
Wow!
Great!! Fantastic time we're living in) I wonder would it improve the overall result if you colored those 8 frames individually and then multiply them? That automatic frame coloring looked really on point, yet the video processing is still lacking consistency because of the task complexity, but there were only 8, to begin with here, so yeah, could it benefit from such a change of the enhancement actions' order? Thank you!
Thx for a to the point video.
Wow...
Pretty Cool, thanks!
Thank you, with your explanations finally i was able to try out these AI solutions. DAIN app also has a Pixel art upscale function, is it worse for photo upscale than waifu2? But i still don't understand why 11gb of vram is not enough for 720p as the description suggests.
Cool tutorial!
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
how much GPU memory do you need to process 1080p frames?
Is it necessary to process one minute video frame by frame like this?
Great ,thanks !
Yes it's a good project.
Cool nice.
woah
Great!!!!!!!!!!
Great job!!!
Were they playing music chair?
Fantastic job!! An alternative to DAIN-App (for those who cant use cuda) is FFMPEG with the filter minterpolate.
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
That's good to know. I love FFMPEG, I'll have to play with it.
@DanGmz
4 жыл бұрын
@@TJFREE Glad to help, this is the code -vf "minterpolate=fps=60:mi_mode=mci:me_mode=bidir:mc_mode=aobmc:vsbmc=1 And the documentation ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#minterpolate
How do I sync the original audio say 30 fps video to the new video say 60fps without being out of sync. Can you please help me suggest using Premier pro or any other softwares
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
Good question. You can do this in any video editor. Bring in the 60 fps video and the old 30 fps video. Split the audio from the 30 fps video, and remove the video part only, keeping only the audio and the new 60 fps video. Alight the tracks. If the audio is out of sync, increase or decease the speed of the audio clip..
@sahdsalmi3935
4 жыл бұрын
@@TJFREE you are one son of a gun, I'll try that and give you my feedback
@sahdsalmi3935
4 жыл бұрын
@@TJFREE are you available in insta, i really need your help bro. I took 24fps video, converted into 30 fps (fake), interpolated and the output png was 2x frames ie.. 60. But whenever I bring it to Premier on to the project panel, it says 30,so I modify and assume the footage as 60fps. And drag and drop to new item for creating new composition. But the video is playing faster than the original one. I have no idea, can you please help me.
How to enhance the old color faded vinyl tape video in modern PC
next time you should use RIFE in a colab notebook to frame interpolate, its faster and way better!
just blow up my mind :)
Great
شكرا Thanks
wow sir, thats amazing! new sub from me.
My GOD.
no way! My defender is rejecting it
Nice video 👌 and What about rawtherapy software
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks. rawtherapy is great software, and could have also been used in place of Darktable in this workflow.
@eternalguy6023
4 жыл бұрын
@@TJFREE thanks😊 for the reply
Can you colorized old classic cartoon films like Felix the Cat?
@TJFREE
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Joshua. Yes, using just Deoldify you could automatically add color. I'm not sure how accurate it would be, but it would be fun to try.
Wow
This man said WiFi2x
Seriously free?
You pronounced waifu like "WiFi". For the future, it's pronounced: "Why-foo".
Update news do with Apple m1 chip
There is much more better softwares for upscale and for 60 fps
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Whatever you used to colour the motion of the people was rubbish, you should of either hand coloured each person with when you had fewer frames then interpolated, or used something that understands the whole moving context and that moving objects should not change colour.
FAR TOO MUCH WORK AND TAKES TOO LONG.
@YoungButRetro
3 жыл бұрын
These things take time and effort