Andreas,
Did you change your earlier intention to release the software as open source.? I got that idea since you are looking for investors. Whatever, Wish you success.
No, I haven’t changed my intention. I am also not related to the ScanPERFect clip.
But as I wrote, I am currently searching for a new job. It would be nice, if that could be an optical audio restoration related project at a university, so that I would be paid for it, while writing my PhD.
That was, what I meant by investors.
At Emden it is highly unlikely, because they have no budget for it. The university of Emden will continue that project too, but based on students work (without wages).
The AEO-Light team were six to eight persons who worked on that topic for six years with a budget of about 300.000$.
I am only one guy, who worked on it for one year without budget and without broad access to film material and a film scanner.
If I don’t get an opportunity to work in that direction, I will reorient but continue the optical audio restoration software on a private basis.
But that will take time.
My research results will be presented this weekend in Cologne at the TMT29. That is a convention for sound editors and sound engineers. I hope that will offer some opportunities.
By the way, here is a new restoration clip, that also will be shown at the TMT:
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Excellent work Andreas, Hope everything would turnout well for you. All the best.
What I intended from my earlier post was that SCANPERfect is a proprietary software used by the Company. And only solution available for us would be AEO or (hopefully) Andreas software. I was not clear it seems. Sorry for the confusion.
Let us know the outcome of the screening at the TMT29.
Wish you all the best and luck.
My attendance at the TMT29 had no results. Seems like audio industry is not interested in
developing that kind of software. So I am working on it during my leisure time now.
Sorry to hear that the audio industry was not interested. But I think it is to be expected. The industry wants software they can sell more.
Andreas, do not worry. Your program sounds better.
We hope to try soon.
Andreas hello.
News about the program?
When will we see?
Are we the only ones interested?
I also eagerly await for its release.
Time is the main issue at the moment.
The software has a name now: OSIRes for Optical Soundtrack Image Processing Restoration
And I have started to develop some functions for dolby stereo soundtracks.
But my time is very limited at the moment, so I can’t really say when OSIRes will be
finished.
I hope it will be before summer, but no guarantee.
If we raised some money would you be able to devote some time to working on it? Like a freelance project?
Matthew
I don’t think so.
It is a turbulent time for me now. And to be a freelancer is also risky.
Let me a little bit time till summer.
If OSIRes isn’t finished then, I will publish the source code, so others can work on it too.
Hi Andreas. Summer has come. Do you have news for us?
Hi dan74,
yes I have some news. I have posted them a month ago in another thread, so here is a quote:[quote=“Andreas, post:4, topic:176, full:true”]
Indeed, I have some updates.
I am in talks with the Film University Babelsberg in Potsdam.
In September I am going to present the current state of OSIRes (followed by a paper) at the IASA convention (IASA: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) in Berlin.
OSIRes is soon to become a joint project between the Film University and the HTW Berlin, maybe also the IASA as investor (incertain at the moment).
I know, it is not as fast as everybody hoped (including myself), but with access to various film material, investment and time, I hope it will become a better solution, than it was originally planed.
Meanwhile I have concentrated on other video/audio software, maybe also interesting for the kinograph community.
So I have written a hybrid between median and average plugin for avisynth, for restoration of VHS-Cassettes.
The motivation was to reduce noise and salt and paper artefacts by combining several digital captures of the same analogue source.
Another software I am currently developing, reduces clicks and pops of stereo recordings by interpolation within the stereo field, using a kind of dolby pro logic.
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I guess more news will follow in one or two month.
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Andreas, we look forward to it!
Waiting eagerly. Congratulations.
Andreas as success ?. News on the program? Do not leave us, we are waiting for you.
Hallo,
I don’t leave you.
I was on this year’s IASA conference, but it somehow was too late to show OSIRes there via presentation. But I had a few very interesting conversations and took the opportunity to present OSIRes on a small scale and make connections. Maybe it will be shown on the next IASA conference.
So, I am currently working at the Film University Babelsberg at an archival digitisation project and OSIRes shall become part of it. And I am still making connections to some companies for financing that project.
I know that ARRI has also developed a sound extraction software and also some polish guys (obviously not as open source).
And it is really hard to find a company for a subsidized project that is open source at the end.
They want to co-operate, but they also want me to sign a confidentiality agreement and make a business out of it.
I also don’t had the time to make further work on OSIRes, since my job at the Film University.
I working there, but still haven’t found an affordable flat to live in.
So I travel 510km per train twice a week and rest in a guesthouse there.
I am working hard to get OSIRes started as soon as possible.
But there are also so many other things at the moment to work on (like developing long term archiving strategies and the right digitisation workflows), and it will also help kinograph, I guess.
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@Andreas! Great to hear from you. Sorry to hear about your housing troubles. If it was up to us, you’d live in a luxurious home with all the time you needed to work on OSIRes as much as you wanted.
Sounds like you are doing great work at the the university. If Kinograph can help you crowdfund, we would certainly be willing to do so. Just let me know!
Still working on V2 of the hardware. I haven’t announced it yet but I just got a small residency with a small amount of funding for the next 3 months. It should help cover the cost of imaging components. So that is good news.
Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help you, including making connections at conferences or funding sources. There may be interested people here in New York. If you know someone here that you’d like to talk to I might be able to reach out to them through my contacts.
Matthew
Hope that we will see the completed OSiris soon,
I also hope to see…