Are these restorations considered documents, or art?
13 Comments on Restoring Vintage Footage With AI – Is It Authentic?
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I love these videos. It makes the past come alive.
Not authentic because the colors are most likely off, but much better than the nightmarish AI generated ‘commercials’.
Not art because not created by a human.
https://youtu.be/siHfHUm3HGE&t=1m37s.
re-creation for recreation
I too, love watching vintage footage but with that being said I keep in mind that the colorization probably is off. It definitely isn’t authentic, but it does give us a clearer picture of these images from the past.
Watching these old films reminds me that people alive back then were more fit than what I see on the streets today. Maybe that’s because of what they ate and how everyday life required more activity OR that less fit people just didn’t survive the tougher environment.
Jethro ^-^ Back then if you wanted to eat, you had to work!
Today the fat slobs drive up in their Escalades, grab a motorized cart and shop till they drop then pay for it with an EBT card!
Yer tax dollars at work!
100 years from now people will be laughing at us when they see the videos.
@aircubed
Or crying that we let a great culture destroy itself because of libtards.
How long will it be before we have a new Hollywood release starring John Wayne and Clint Eastwood together in their primes.
The so-called actors in Hollywood today should be very nervous. There is a time coming where their services will no longer be needed. Thankfully
There are purists who take purity to the extreme. Some people complain about image stabilization of old news reel footage.
There is an excellent discussion of the “ethic” in this video: https://youtu.be/3YqoSoPGqkY
My comment is the second from the top, but here it is:
@RadioMattM
1 year ago
I suppose the question could be posed: Is “enhancing” a film, as accurately as possible, really any difference than editorial decisions made when writing a history book? By the time the information has gone through several sources, how accurate is a text? The concerns mention in this video are valid and worth discussing, though.
Why were the trees and fields changed in the Peter Jackson work? Good question. As for the bird, perhaps it was interpreted as a speck of dust and therefore removed.
Some of the AI enhancements depend on the film. I need to say that my comments concern what I would call “incidental” films, not studio productions.
If AI improves resolution, how significant that a face that has been sharpened does not look exactly like someone walking down a street in 1915? Does anyone really know what that person really looked like? I have seen that AI can make gross errors in sharpening, as was seen in this video with the bicycle going over the little jump.
I can be hot or cold on colorizing. As this video stated, it depends on the grey scale in the film. I have seen a number of films where the brightness changes from frame to frame, and this causes colors to jump from one to another.
I love the idea of upscaling to 60 fps. I have seen some videos where something from 100 years ago almost looks like a modern video. However, if the original film was not very clear, it almost seems not worth the effort to upscale it because there is no perceptible improvement.
This was a very good and interesting video. Thank you for your effort.
The poster of the video replied:
@Rick88888888
1 year ago
Thank you veru much. I don’t think upscaling old film to 4k is worth the bother in most cases. If HD 1080p level can not even be reached then going a step further to 4k is futile. Also 60 fps is over-rated. A properly speed-corrected film at 25 or 30 fps that corresponds to the native framerate of the displaying device (!) will create great results too.
My first reaction rolls along with MattM above.
I do think the colorization does bring it to a relatable level in that black-and-white makes things seem old by itself. It didn’t look old at the time in real life. It was currently modern. As modern as it could get. Black-and-white photography takes that away and immediately vfreezes it as something in the long ago past.