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    You are at:Home » Upscaling the first 1896 Lumière Brothers film recordings to full colour 4K/60p with neural network engine

    Upscaling the first 1896 Lumière Brothers film recordings to full colour 4K/60p with neural network engine

    Andrew Reid (EOSHD)By Andrew Reid (EOSHD)February 9, 2020 Filmmaking 2 Mins Read
    Lumière Brothers 4K

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqbOhqXHL7E

    Shot by the Lumière Brothers in 1896 this is some of the first footage committed to film. There is now a technique to upsample this footage to high resolution 4K/60p using neural networks. Here it is in action on the piece “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat”.

    Imagine being the first to hold a movie camera and whatever you film goes down in history, even a train arriving at a platform.

    Here’s the quality of the original (albeit quite compressed due to being on YouTube and not a high quality master).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjtXXypztyw

    The difference is amazing but I think the end-result could do with some improvement…

    1. Quit with the 60fps. Put it to 24p
    2. Stop with the crop. We can do without the Warp Stabilisation
    3. Find a higher quality original with less compression
    4. Make a higher bitrate version available for download.

    So that dear EOSHD readers is the challenge I set for you!

    The software is freely available on the internet to process old footage.

    Gigapixel AI – Topaz Labs https://topazlabs.com/downloads

    To set FPS to 24p with video frame interpolation: Dain https://sites.google.com/view/wenbobao/dain

    And here’s more from The Lumière Brothers, and their humble camera with limited dynamic range!

    1896 4k 60p ai Lumière Brothers neural network old footage upscaling
    Andrew Reid (EOSHD)
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