Sun Nov 28, 2021 7:31 pm
I took advantage of the sale, too. My first attempts yesterday at restoring early 90s consumer DV footage were quite successful. I saw the same artifacts mentioned above when the software encountered rapid motion, but overall the restoration and upscaling was excellent. I restored a finished five minute AVI from a Discreet Edit system and upscaled the original interlaced 720X480 to progressive 1280X960.
De-noise was very effective, removing nearly all the (horrendous) noise from an available light, after-dark 757 cockpit sequence.
This software has been criticized for being slow to render. I didn't find this to be true. It auto-selected my GPU and my system rendered the above DV footage at about 5 fps, content-dependent.
Equally satisfying was the "timeline/auto detect cuts" function in Resolve, which worked flawlessly on this first-time attempt. It allowed me to do clip-level colour grading on the entire five minute show.
It's extraordinary what modern software can do with low-quality legacy footage.
ASUS ROG X570-E motherboard, Ryzen 9 3900X, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD boot, 2TB NVMe work, Zotac RTX 3060 12 GB, Behrenger Uphoria UMC 404HD.