How cool! Your dad had a steady hand on the camera. Smooth motion. I have alot of stuff here that my dad shot, also but have not had the time to go through it. Pics and video. We lived near DL all my childhood ('50s - early '70) and went many times a year, so there is alot to play with. I hope to get to it sometime soon. What digitizing software/hardware are you using?
And, did you notice that everyone seems shorter back then?
I'm using a
Workprinter XP projector and am capturing it with a
Canon XH A1 in standard def. I use a program called Cinecap to do the frame-by-frame capture and upconvert it from 15fps to 30fps. Once I have the video, I use Sony Vegas for post production, adjusting brightness, contrast, noise reduction (using Neat Video), and sharpening. I just started playing with the post production tools this morning.
I've been searching for a good dust removal plug-in, but I haven't found anything affordable yet.
I've also been tuning my capture technique. I may need to go back a recapture some shots. I've got the video camera set up for 30fps progressive scans (not sure if that matters given my frame-by-frame capture technique, but I didn't want interlaced). I record in manual mode with a 1/30 shutter speed and whatever aperture results in a good exposure. I'm thinking about boosting my shutter speed to 1/60 because I get a little smearing on some high contrast situations. I suspect that the long shutter speed may be contributing to the problem.
Unfortunately, I'm making up my technique as I go. I don't know anyone that's done anything like this and I haven't had good luck looking for useful information online. Every time I try to search for things to fix grain, scratches, dust, or whatever, I find tools that take perfectly good video and mess it up so that it
looks like it is film. I guess that's either easier or more popular than taking film and making it look like it's video.
