THE "REMASTER" PROJECT - Part 1 - "The Rise of SKYNET" (Patreon)

So, I was re-watching my old videos last week, and it kinda shocked me how choppy and washed out looking some of them are, especially when compared to my latest ones (for reference, my early stuff up to "The Handyman" was all shot in 720p, and sometimes even at the low-low framerate of 24)... 

Recently I've heard a lot about that this newfangled AI upscaling/interpolating stuff is actually becoming viable and easy enough to use (like, we have Windows programs with GUIs now, instead of just command line Linux stuff). So, I started going down the Youtube rabbit hole about the subject and by the end I was truly mesmerized by how clever these algorithms have become... I thought, I have to give this one a try.

I chose the Mayzie Grobe music video as my first time test candidate, as it's my favourite one from the olden days AND also it's probably the most horrendously choppy looking out of that bunch :D

I've ran it through an 1080p upscaler first, then used a 60fps AI interpolator (it took quite a few tries to set up the software properly) - and the results are... honestly... Good!... yeah I think that's the proper word. Some parts are still a bit iffy looking, but it certainly is looking much better then it was... but I'll let you decide.

You can download the new 1080p remastered mp4 by clicking here, but I also urge you to watch the side-by-side comparison video I've made (see attached mp4 below) - I think that's the best way to appreciate the improvements of the Remastered version over the original one.

Thanks for reading; and if you have any comments/insights on the topic, please don't hesitate to share it with me down below.

Take care,
~p.