Hide: prevent from being seen or discovered
Sometimes, after completing the repair process, one can still find some small defects in the movie.
In most cases, as the huge amount of corrupt data cannot be transferred to Aero Quartet, the repair is delivered through a Repair Kit. Only a very small sample is uploaded by Treasured, the rest will never been examined by us and the repair kit will extrapolate what it knows from the small sample to repair everything. Hence a few errors from time to time.
We explain here how to hide them.
Why am I supposed to do that if I pay a Movie Repair Service?
Because this actually is the "sweet point" where quality and cost achieves a good balance, from the point of view of the majority of customers.
Unless you are willing to wait and pay more, the improvements explained below are left to each customer because:
Therefore, Aero Quartet will probably be slower, more expensive, and may use a wrong criteria for what must be corrected and what not.
Editing
You do not have to use all the repaired footage. Maybe the moments where defects are visible can just be edited out, without compromising the final result.
This is not always possible, but seasoned editors know how to create a good movie out of small pieces.
IMPORTANT: Always put audio and video together before doing any editing.
For video amateurs, there are a few inexpensive tools that can be used:
SimpleMovieX, QuickTime Pro, ...
How do I remove bad frames from footage?
IMPORTANT: Always put audio and video together before doing any editing.
Bad frames that can crash or freeze playback, or are just ugly.
With a simple movie editor, like SimpleMovieX or QuickTime Pro, you can remove the bad frames.
If some frames are causing the application to hang or crash, note the exact time or frame number, and do like this, carefully avoiding them:
Now your movie should be playable from start to end.
How do I put audio and video together?
Repair kits sometimes do not create a movie file, and instead they create separate audio and video files.
If you use Final Cut, AVID or some other big-name editor, this is not a problem: just import the files in the timeline.
But if you just want the movie for playback and archive, you should put audio and video together.
Mac users can use SimpleMovieX (free trial) or QuickTime Pro (Apple software, not free).
Both are very simple movie editors.
You can use SimpleMovieX trial version to do this, no need to buy a license (even if that would be nice, this is one of our products!)
Sometimes you achieve a better result if you skip the second step of stretching.
It can also be necessary to adjust audio/video sync, as explained below.
How do I synchronize Audio and Video?
Is the delay drifting, fluctuating or is it constant?
You can determine this listening the movie file. (maybe you need to put audio and video together first, see above)
Constant delay is corrected easily:
If there is drift or variation, it is more difficult. Some segment of video will have to be stretched to match the audio, that is always used as a reference.