Diamant Software Film Restoration Suite Free Download

Click to expand.Good questions. Here's some places to contact: It's fair to say that some projects are joint efforts. For example, I've worked on projects where Company A did the negative film scanning, Company B (me) did the color correction, and Company C did the dust busting/stabilization/grain management. So it's not always just one place that does everything. My experience with Prasad and Reliance has been that you give them a minute of material to check, then they give you back an estimate based on the total run time of the project and the available time.

Jun 22, 2014 - Page 2 of 2 - Film restoration software - posted in Super-8: Hello. We recommend to download new version 1.41, some changes have been. We just tested a number of high end software packages (MTI film, Phoenix refine, Diamant film. With them and incorporating it into a restoration suite at our studio.

Clearly, a film that has 900 pieces of dirt in every frame will cost more money to fix than a fairly clean film that only has 10 pieces of dirt in every frame. Even with automation assistance, good work takes time and judgement.

Thanks again for the insight, Marc. I have a 500-film library, and I want to offer the clips as stock footage through Getty Images, but I'm trying to figure out cost effective ways to restore the footage. Do I send it out to a film restoration house and pay (potentially) a lot of money, or do I buy the necessary (and expensive) software tools and do it myself? There seems to be no inexpensive way to do this. The correct choice is the lesser of two evils. But which to choose?

I have been considering the Diamant Film Restoration suite, but it costs $20,000. And I'm not sure I can test drive it beforehand. Same cost for the Phoenix software.

However, the one option you mentioned - MTI's DRS Nova software - allows me to download it for two weeks to evaluate it. At least I can try before I buy. And it costs $12,500.

Allows you to download their restoration tools for free and do your full restoration work on your film. But they put some kind of restraint on the final output. To remove the restraint, you pay them something like.006 cents per frame of footage. (One second of 24fps film works out to 14.4 cents. That's $8.64 per minute.) So the options are: 1) Send my footage to a full-service vendor who will do all the restoration work and create a finished movie ready to upload.

(Most expensive option.) 2) Buy a professional suite of film restoration software tools and do the restoration myself. (Less expensive but a big time investment) 3) Do the restoration with free downloadable tools and pay to remove the watermark from the final product (Least expensive but a big time investment) All of these vendors have interesting business models, but it's hard to figure out which one works best for me. Regarding DaVinci Resolve, I know it's world class color grading software, but I'm not sure how great it is at stabilizing. Even though Fusion is now built in, I'm not sure it does a better job than Apple Motion or Adobe AfterEffects. I downloaded Fusion, and I simply couldn't figure it out even after watching a YouTube tutorial. Well, anyway, thanks for your advice. I will contact the vendors you mentioned previously and see if I can get quotes.