Movietuning
Project Film Improvement, Part 2
I finally managed to find software to increase the frame rate from 25 to 50 on the old films. The programs insert an extra frame between each of the original frames. This extra frame is produced by moving the content to the middle between frame 1 and 2. Very simplified explanation.
In particular, objects (the skier) that move a lot will therefore have a less jagged movement.
The programs I use are described here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PanoGifs/wiki/frameinterpolation/
But this is a very oversimplified description, you run into many problems that require troubleshooting and downloading more
other things before it finally works. But work it does.
The film from 2003 with my really old camera also had the problem that the camera cheated with the frame rate. To get up to 25 fps, there is for every 5 frames only 3 real, the other 2 are just copies of the previous frame. Nothing to say about it looking weird. I have repaired it by deleting all these copy frames. This brought the frame rate down to 15 fps. This movie, now without cheats, is then deshaken and up-converted to 60 fps using the above method.
Notice how the cheating becomes more visible after deshaking, where the background becomes calm, so you can really see the skier's unnatural movements.
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Project Movie Enhancement
As I found out when making the 2018 February movie, my movies can be enhanced quite a bit by using the original footage which is recorded with 50 frames per second. As to now, I have reduced the movies to 25 frames per second in order to decrease the time it takes to edit a movie, and the size of the finished movie. But I have now found a method to preserve the 50 frames per second which gives quite a quality improvement. At the same time, most people nowadays have faster internet access and computers with large harddisks, so download times are not as problematic anymore, and it all keeps improving.
Consequently I have started up on improving also the older movies. I will here list the movies as they have been improved. Unfortunately I don't have the original footage for all movies, so some will only have the deshaking improved.
Here you can see an example of how badly shaken the footage can be when I am short of breath and it is fucking cold (together with the deshaked version):
| 25/2 2023 | St Anton 2003.mp4 (6 MB) |
| 23/2 2023 | StAnton2016w6.mp4 (146 MB) |
| 12/10 2021 | StAnton2012w5.mp4 (186 MB) |
| 10/12 2018 | YouTube St Anton 2015 week 9 |
| 18/5 2018 | StAnton2013w8.mp4 (256 MB) |
| 28/3 2018 | StAnton2016w13.mp4 (120 MB) |
| 28/3 2018 | StAnton2014w13.mp4 (510 MB) |
| 23/3 2018 | StAnton2017w8.mp4 (670 MB) (Including bird hunting) |
| 22/3 2018 | StAnton2015easter.mp4 (1,1 GB) |
| 11/3 2018 | StAnton2017w5-6.mp4 (1,6 GB) |
| 8/3 2018 | 2018 February.mp4 (1 GB) |