Fantastic use of my Donald Fagen AI voice to restore "I Can't Write Home About You" by Jive Miguel! watch video on watch page
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Should I most an in-progress clip of my NEW AND IMPROVED Steely Dan - Second Arrangement restoration? It's quite an upgrade, in some ways.
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New video coming in 8 or so hours of possibly the dumbest radio segment I've ever heard, and why people should read articles before speaking about news.
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More Steve Jobs content coming this week.
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Hi all,
Crisis averted, thanks to some extremely friendly and understanding copyright holders the DMCAs are now lifted and the channel will no longer be getting shut down. Let this be advice to anyone who deals with copyright strikes: be friendly and understanding, it'll get you a long ways.
Also, the channel just hit 5,000 subscribers a few days ago which means... I don't know. Gonna take some time to "chill" as the kids says until putting up a big batch of VHS tapes.
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What's the best instrumental off of Kids See Ghosts?
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Got some old tape rips coming up soon-ish. In the meantime enjoy the Olympics music until the games start!
Full playlist to that here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
watch video on watch page
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Only 4 months late, but a new Steely Dan restoration is tomorrow. Big one too. Had it laying around for 4 months but just haven't bothered putting it up since I felt it wasn't up to par of the others at the time. Coming back to it though, it's worth it.
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It's disappointing that so many videos go viral nowadays, claiming to be 4K/60 FPS aren't properly restored.
If you follow my channel, you know I try to restore things like music or video to a reasonable point where they're improved, where as essential information there in the original material is not removed during the process of trying to make it better.
Recently some videos like San Francisco in 1906, or a train in France arriving from 1895, and just today a Genesis concert have taken off online and in media all under the guise that these are the best restored versions of the material but that's simply not the case. In theexamples I've given there's many errors which prevent those from truly being the "best". Let's go over a few common ones you can watch out for. If you're interested in restoration yourself, remember these.
1. Overdone motion interpolation can kill any good looking video from being sharp to blurry. While interpolation can be used effectively if you have something like a smooth singular shot at 30 FPS or above, trying to restore artifact heavy footage at less than 15 FPS can result in an uncanny valley effect as there's not enough info to get it from 15 to 60. Some movements just can't be properly interpreted right by AI now as well, like fast blurred movement.
2. Using bad source material. It only takes seconds to find something to restore, but if you truly want to restore a video then you need to get the best copy of it! Ripping from YouTube should be a last resort as it's compressed, and lower resolution videos present heavy artifacts. Physical media is almost always better than digital versions. While that might not be available sometimes, you always have to question where something came from in the first place. Who transferred that media? If the original used for transfer is gone, did they make a lossless copy? If not do they have the lossy file they made? Those should be the questions asked in properly restoring something. Also, don't forget good deinterlacing, Yandif can go a long way. Proper deinterlacing is another rant though.
3. Not knowing the tools of the trade. If you really want to restore something, you need to recognize everything at your disposal which can help and try it. So many times in my experience I've learned that knowing what a specific tool or setting can do will help, even if it's maybe not geared towards the thing you need fixed (like using a tool for de-ruffling a microphone to get rid of tape noise spikes). So many of these videos posted only go full throttle and don't examine what the AI might remove by accident. While a wall may have intricate detail in a video for example, 100% denoise can remove that, yet slightly editing settings can add it back while still making the picture better. It's always a thin line for audio between removing noise, and removing the audio you want. Knowing your spectral denoise inside and out of essential.
If you want to know more about the physical side of things, watch Tom Scott and his analysis of music video restorations Universal and some other artists did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkysC...
watch video on watch page
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A somewhat poorly named channel which used to constantly upload Sir Mix-A-Lot's rare videos, music. Now it's a lot of everything else except that.
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