Don't Stop Me Now - 16mm Film Restoration

Here's the original source. Thanks to Sikke for uploading - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7dzhGdxgJ0 

Some of you may have noticed that I already worked on this video before. Well, this should be the definitive version. There was a guy who worked on my video and removed the streaks and stuff, but he converted it to NTSC and probably left Smart Resampling on in Vegas which resulted in ghosty motion - blends. Plus the MPEG-2 compression he used isn't the best and video looked more compressed. This time I removed all the film damage myself, partly manually and generally just made it to my liking. 

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Enjoy! :-)

Thanks for sharing this Chief. It´s brilliant!
The amount of fixing you did just for the first 10 seconds is amazing.

are you a genius? MERCI BEAUCOUP

Wow very impressive! Amazing restoration many thanks.

Thank you so much!! It looks amazing.

Just fantastic. Well done and thank you. Watched it three times. Probably my favorite Queen video to one of my favorite songs.

That is an amazing job. I watched the version from "Greatest Video Hits" right after yours and, after seeing your restoration, it's sad that they even released the version they did. I honestly think you should email Brian about your version. If they would decide to reissue their videos on Blu Ray, your restoration definitely deserves to be on there, in my opinion.

Well done as always Mr. Chief Mouse !!!

Amazing job! Thanks a lot Chief Mouse.

kevin79 wrote: That is an amazing job. I watched the version from "Greatest Video Hits" right after yours and, after seeing your restoration, it's sad that they even released the version they did. I honestly think you should email Brian about your version. If they would decide to reissue their videos on Blu Ray, your restoration definitely deserves to be on there, in my opinion.

Thanks for kind words, guys.

Nice idea, but it probably wouldn't work. This is merely a tweaked youtube rip.

If Sikke provided an HD transfer which we could work on, I'm sure he could get it through to QPL as well afterwards. But who knows, that's up to Sikke.

There is one thing I don't like but as I see it the problem is already in Sikke's original. The bright parts are too bright. All the fine detail from Freddie's face are gone, e.g. you can't see he wasn't shaved.
But that's a transfer problem, so it would be great if the owner did a new transfer, but that's too greedy :-)


Anyway, a technical question - how did you remove some of the stuff? I mean I know there are pretty good filters for removing dust spots and scratches, but how did you remove the damage which I don't know the English term for, but you can see it on your third picture? Was it again some filter or did you manually painted them out?

And thanks for the share of course

pittrek wrote: There is one thing I don't like but as I see it the problem is already in Sikke's original. The bright parts are too bright. All the fine detail from Freddie's face are gone, e.g. you can't see he wasn't shaved.
But that's a transfer problem, so it would be great if the owner did a new transfer, but that's too greedy :-)

Anyway, a technical question - how did you remove some of the stuff? I mean I know there are pretty good filters for removing dust spots and scratches, but how did you remove the damage which I don't know the English term for, but you can see it on your third picture? Was it again some filter or did you manually painted them out?

And thanks for the share of course

Photoshop :-) Roughly 4 or more hours of painting work and that's the best, most precise way. As far as I know, there are no filters which can remove streaks that big, at least not without affecting the rest of the picture drastically.

Fantastic work! thank you very much!

Chief Mouse wrote:

pittrek wrote: There is one thing I don't like but as I see it the problem is already in Sikke's original. The bright parts are too bright. All the fine detail from Freddie's face are gone, e.g. you can't see he wasn't shaved.
But that's a transfer problem, so it would be great if the owner did a new transfer, but that's too greedy :-)

Anyway, a technical question - how did you remove some of the stuff? I mean I know there are pretty good filters for removing dust spots and scratches, but how did you remove the damage which I don't know the English term for, but you can see it on your third picture? Was it again some filter or did you manually painted them out?

And thanks for the share of course

Photoshop :-) Roughly 4 or more hours of painting work and that's the best, most precise way. As far as I know, there are no filters which can remove streaks that big, at least not without affecting the rest of the picture drastically.

That´s passion! And all that work for a Youtube video? You´re making me feel bad that i´m getting it for free :-)

Wonderful. Thank you very much!!