18 Days of Vengeance Trail - Countdown to Memphis Premiere on April 23!
Today's BTS insight: Key use of Video Enhance A.I. to blow up the original footage.
Before that, the gnarly task of recapturing all the old footage. Stephen and I couldn't find all the hard drives with footage and the EDL (edit decision list from the editing software).
So, I borrowed an old DV deck and rescanned 70 Mini DV tapes. That’s 35 hours of footage. Then I cut those 70 clips into all the camera takes from set -- thousands of them -- and started matching them to the trailer. I couldn’t find all the footage, so I substituted shots.
Then I used Video Enhance A.I. software by Topaz Labs, on special for $150, to convert the footage from 480i to 1080p, a magnification of 250%. If you want more details to help for your own project, let me know. Check out this Vengeance Trail Up-res Comparison.
The last three years has been a labor of love, all for a library movie that's not proven to have found an audience yet. But everything in me says it's a decent movie with good production value, way better than our first DVD effort. And, I'm not tired of watching it.
Ian Max
P.S. I'll be taking tomorrow off.
