Digital Remastering For Cine Film - Featuring Colour Correction, Audio Correction, DVIS, EXR

Digital remastering at Timeless Moments is suitable for faded film footage, typically CINE or VHS. It can be applied to any footage . We are not going to list the exact way we digitally remaster film footage as it is a trade secret that we have spent a lot of time developing. Suffice it to say that we adjust the following factors:

Brightness
Contrast
Gain
Red, green and blue channel separate adjustment.
Luminance, saturation and hue
Gamma correction
Highlights, mid tone and shadows
Sharpness
Noise reduction (visual and sound)

This photograph of the Parthenon  illustrates the kind of difference you will see. Move your mouse pointer over the image to see the remastered improvement. (Actual Cine image, 1957 standard 8)

The preview right shows not only how we transfer CINE to digital formats but also what a huge difference digital remastering can make. The film shows a split screen with the original and the remastered films side by side for easy comparison. Films are adjusted for hue, saturation, separate red, green and blue colour channels, sharpness, brightness and contrast and finally digital noise reduction and a few TM specialities! Click on the picture of the Cine reel to view the film.

Digital remastering is also included as Standard for all CINE projects. This advance in our service has been made possible by constantly reinvesting in state of the art computers and equipment.

Digital Audio Remastering

But it’s not just the picture that requires remastering. Often audio can be poor too. A typical example are speeches at weddings. Often the cameraman is too far away from the main speaker and coupled with the echo from a large building it can be almost impossible to make out what is being said.

Now it is possible to enhance that speech to the point where it is at least audible and in most cases very clear. The feedback we are receiving is quite extraordinary from our customers amazed by the remarkable results from audio remastering. We use special speech recognition algorithms to enhance the human voice and at the same time reduce the reverb (amount of echo) in the room. This is included as standard in all Enhanced transfers and can be offered on standard transfers for a small supplementary fee depending on the length of the footage to be remastered.

So hopefully it is possible to see how huge a difference a total digital remastering project can make to your treasured footage, perhaps it will look better than you’ve ever seen it before!

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