This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8CzlFhc14, where he talks about the myth of “poor countries” and the Cuban revolution (among other things).
Stay tuned on that post for updates.
The Yellow Parenti video is like the video from The Ring, except it makes you a Communist in 7 days
Update 3:
My footage was looking a bit brown and washed out (because of the desaturation), so as a last resort I added a premade camera filter, and there you have it. I can still play with the exposure and contrast but as far as colour is concerned, I don’t think I’ll be able to top this.
Next step is trying to clear up the grain, and then treat it with an AI algorithm to hopefully upscale it. This is 50/50, but even if upscaling doesn’t work, we can still try and get a clearer picture.
the yellow speech is iconic though, how could you remove its beautiful color
It absolutely is, and part of that fame was made not because of the full speech but because of the two clips I mentioned in the OP. The stain, which probably occurred because the tape wasn’t stored properly and got exposed to the elements, actually gives it its personality. If you see even one frame of that whole footage you know it’s the yellow Parenti speech. Most people don’t even know when and where he gave that speech.
However, even more people (even on the ML side!) are not aware of who Parenti is. I’ve also seen the clip about poor countries very recently on r/nextfuckinglevel where it was highly awarded, and on tiktok too. I feel if we can offer a higher quality recording (especially in regards to the sound), maybe it will make it more shareable and introduce more people to Parenti. Having that high-pitched hum in your ear constantly has 100% turned away some people… and tbh I’m thinking that the yellow stain probably has too (yellow stain = old = not relevant today).
The next step would be to clip out several key parts of that speech, because there are only two online that I know of. The whole thing is incredible, he says a lot of stuff and everything rings true. He’s such a charismatic speaker that the whole one hour and a half just flies by, but again if we can offer 5 minute clips of the speech, it may help introduce Parenti and communism to more people.
First update: started on cleaning up the sound, removing the humming. https://vocaroo.com/181OWqrZEJDb
I appreciate constructive criticism on this because in AV, when you spend some time focused on one task, you start getting used to the result and don’t see the shortcomings.
Also if I can’t correct the colour in a satisfying way I was thinking of just turning the footage black and white. Would it take away some of the impact for you personally?
I’d have to see stills, black and white might be kinda neat.
This is without any other work done, so it’s the yellow footage but with 0 colour saturation.
It looks good to me, even if it makes it feel like it was filmed in 1962 and not 1986… the main problem is that it’s not really how this was filmed, it was filmed in colour.
I’m hoping to fine-tune the colour even more (right now there’s green artefacts, the blue border, and his face is still discoloured) so that we don’t even need to consider b&w.
After that comes the AI upscaling. Really not sure how it’s gonna go.
Update 2: finally found a way to fix the discolouration. The raw footage was actually too saturated and contrasted, and just bringing these two down actually fixed a lot of it. Then it’s “just” a matter of fine-tuning the colour curves.
I’m still not entirely happy with it and it requires some more fine-tuning, but at least Parenti is starting to look a bit more natural now.
There’s the tell-tale sign of a tape recording with the vignette in the borders and I’ll fix this later.
THANK YOU. As long as we still always refer to this as the yellow parenti video :winking face with tongue:
Almost final update: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/731255745361870880/785552980254523462/1986speech_1.00x_352x240_thf-4.mp4
30 seconds clip of the finished product. Now I get to export the whole 1.5 hours movie, then pass it through an AI upscaler to 1) remove the noise and sharpen the picture and 2) upscale it to 720p.
Since this short clip I put back some contrast in, but that’s about it. I also noticed way before any of that that there was some lens distortion going on (if you look at the curtain behind Parenti you’ll see it’s not falling straight down) so I fixed that as best I could too.
Final step will be uploading on Youtube if they let me upload a 1.5h long video. See you all later when it’s done.
Looks great, much better than the original.
This looks amazing. You can also upload it to peertube.social . I believe YouTube lets you upload long videos as long your email is verified.
Last update before uploading: since it’s taking so long to upscale the movie, I’m doing it today and it will be done when this post is 9 hours old. Then I still need to upload it, and who knows how long that will take. I’ll probably be letting it run during the night.
:clapping hands: