Hey guys, I noticed some of you are having trouble getting this method to work properly, if you don't get any output make sure you're using the latest version of Photoshop, and try adding a "save as PSD" step to your actions right before you stop recording and then create the droplet using the same settings. Have fun 😉
@@aucklanddrive3394 does this work. When I’m trying to do a 1 and a half hour film it takes ages to convert 10 mins then it freezes and no longer saves frames
Colourize videos? That sounds awesome to me! How incredible would it be to colourize old family B&W vids? It'd be the most wholesome and precious moments! 😍
Just to answer my own question, because I have now bought Adobe Photoshop Elements: IT IS *NOT* POSSIBLE WITH THIS SOFTWARE TO A.I. COLORIZE VIDEOS. You need the very expensive monthly subscription (full Adobe Photoshop) version, not the "Elements" version. Also I am not impressed at all with the manual colorization feature. It is clumsy, user unfriendly and poorly designed. I bought a "cat in the bag" as they say in Holland. A subscription of US$ 21 per month, i.e. US$ 252 per year, is utterly ridiculous. Adobe is shooting themselves in the foot.
It seems that photoshop looks better than deoldify. Incredible how far this has come. Once they figure out how to do this inside Topaz Labs it would be great to take account of flicker so that the color doesn't change. I'm currently working on a project that has very old footage from the 1930s. The interlacing is annoying but Topaz Labs did an amazing job. I can report that on the M1Max it works incredibly well without any signs of hearing fans going off. Soon I'm sure we will be learning how "They Shall Not Grow" footage got to where it had a consistent frame rate. That was painstaking in that they had to adjust one frame at a time. Thanks for sharing your method. You should do more on Topaz Labs also. Very Helpful
I colorized a film consisting of about 150k frames with res of 1430x1080. Output to psd files. Took about 6 days to finish. Exported frames was about 500GB. (cannot recall exact number, but minimum 500GB). Premier pro tool about 40 minutest to import all the files and then it crashes. After a few tries I used Davinci resolve, import was almost instant and no problems. Highly recommend using davinci resolve if you have issues with Premier Pro and big files.
@@parkerbohnn Sorry for late reply. PC specs are: CPU i7 8700k all cores over clocked to 5GHz. RAM: 32 GB. GPU: GTX 1080. Software runs from a NVMe and the footage was read and written onto a normal SATA SSD. I used the method in this video, using the AI in photoshop to colorize each frame.
@@BrianSmithgrumpygit Hi sorry I have deleted all the output files due to make space. If I remember correctly I just went to file --> import and selected all the PSD files. Then add them all to the timeline, added the original footage with Audio, and I remember I had to increase frame rate (not 100% in this), the exported frame was a bit shorter or longer that the original footage so the audio did not synch up correctly. I am not very experienced with Davinci, sorry I cannot explain better, I just had to play around till I found the correct settings.
I colorized 30 seconds of BUSTER KEATON stunts today using my EDITOR APP and NO AI......just using the color filters in the app.....Will be uploading it with side by side comparison soon. My first.....took about 30 minutes to do.
Great work here, doing it manually has way more natural look compare to auto colour correction, the only problem is AI colour has no control on stable colourization therefore causing the eyes to play up which is not good in a long run.
I`m going to have a lot of fun with this, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I ended up with an empty destination folder first try, sorted by selecting FILE SAVE before stop.
Congratulations for this tutorial, I tried to replicate your steps, I managed to create the "Colorize Droplet" launch file, but when dragging the folder with the original frames, you activate Photoshop for each frame but it doesn't save me anything in the destination folder "Colorized Frame" and I can't understand how wrong.
Very nice tutorial! Can I use Adobe Photoshop ELEMENTS 2021 to batch colorize photographs as you demonstrate here, or do I need to subscribe to Adobe's very expensive (21 US$/month) Photoshop software?
This is pretty impressive but there should be a way to manually override and fix its obvious mistakes. I would rather have B&W that having the one guys hat randomly change to various colors. It looks like some sort of magic trick.
I would rather have one piece of software to convert B&W films or to enhance a poor color film. Thank you for the information. I did download Video AI for a test drive. I hope Video AI does a better job on enhancing 8mm and super 8 films then my current software.
I came here after watching a colorized version of a 1972 Indian Tamil black and white movie snippet, wondering how they managed to do that. You explained it very well. Thank you.
@@MDMZ everything was installed i coloured the picture but when i drag the folder it runs but then says the command for the filter is not available and photoshop cant read it
Do you have any experience with correcting flicker after colorizing a video? Oddly, in original black and white videos there is no flicker, but when colorized and sequenced together in Premiere Pro it causes immense flicker. I've tried using the "Anti-Flicker" setting to no avail. It causes quite a distraction. :(
So, are the colors freely improvised? For example: If it shows a woman in a red shirt was her shirt really red at the time she was wearing it or was it just painted red?
Grrrrrrrr When i drag the folder that has all my PNGs in, Photoshop starts working but doesn't put the colourized frame PSD files in the selected folder i chose. I cannot find where they go. Help needed asap on this please. 😞
Open one of your images with photoshop and enable the colorize filter. Then open another image and create your actions, make sure to save that file in the folder you want as part of your actions. In your droplet also make sure to override save as. Try it a few times and open and close photoshop if it does not work.
I'm on mac and for some reason after I create the colorize app on my desktop, I'll drop a folder in and I get an error message that says file or app has been damaged and needs to go in the trash... This is a year old... Is there a fix? Thanks.
what can I do? I'm trying to do create the droplet, I add all settings as you said but when I'm trying to add all frames I have an error message saying “Colorize” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash. This file was downloaded on an unknown date. btw I'm a macbook user, help please your video is very useful, I like it.
So you paint one reference, and from there you continue the rest, can you have multiple references so you can avoid flickerings/colors washed up etc? Also can you achieve professional result with this technique? Like we see on old movies?
@@MDMZ yea i was meant you painting one reference image, and from there the photoshop process the rest right ? Can i achieve with this way, professional colourization (if i do a little bit of tweaking as well)? Like we see in old movies restoration?
@@sollekram nope it's not a reference cause photoshop doesn't look at the first image when processing the rest,it deals with frames separately, can't say for sure what kind of results you'll achieve since it all depends on the footage you have 😉
@@MDMZ ohhh, so you have to go to each frame, and change the imperfections if they are, what tactic should i follow then if, for example i want to use one image for reference and paint accordingly the rest(and if the setting change i use a new reference for the rest)? So i can speed up the process and mean while hold a good result. Thanks for the help! And sorry if i asking too much.
@@sollekram you don't have to do it manually, not sure if you watched the entire video, the photoshop action is meant to do the process for you, its just not a based on any reference since photoshop treats each image with the same effect but on individual basis, without considering the result on other frames, so keep that in mind
You are the man Thanks 🙏 by any chance do you know if this can be used in Mac also or photoshop for windows is the only way i do not have photoshop so was wondering if by the one for mac or windows 😉 as my laptop with windows has only a geforce gtx 1650 and my mac is a mac studio m1 max
How to avoid low quality videos persons look like cartoons with wierd faces and eyes? I'm just upscaling to HD however getting that efect due to the poor quality
@@MDMZ yes, did that so in the end used the up scai g video but reducing enhancements then use that on the wierd parts in an editor and the good parts from the upscaled and enhanced video (the one with wierd faces) worked somehow. Thanks for the answer, will look for a good set of parameters 🙏👍👍
I just purchased Topaz AI for the first time. I’m an Absolute Beginner and have NEVER used anything like this before. I’ve NEVER used Photoshop either. I bought it because whenever I buy My first iMac 🖥 I wanted to upscale all the Classic Rock Videos I have saved to an external hard drive to 4K. Plus old TV Series I have copied to a couple of external hard drives. I’m wanting to upscale from 480p to 4K.
@@MDMZ Well that’s why I recently purchased the Topaz Video AI. So I could upscale a lot of Hard Rock Videos, Old TV Series that a friend of Mine recorded on His TIVO DVR and sent the episodes to Me through the means of Dropbox and email and they were already edited (Removed all the commercials). I also have a bunch of Cartoons I recently purchased that I’m going to rip to an external hard drive and then upscale to 1080p and 4K then have a friend of Mine transfer them to a New Plex account so I can watch them.
the idea is great but, Just a video clip of 3 minute is about 8,000 frames it take like 1 hour 20 minutes to run in topaz the to run those 8000 frames in Photoshop is about 4 hours. it is too much time just for a song clip black and white in you tube
Using PS to create automated colourised motion film is innovative, if inaccurate. Ideally artists require full manual control to process video & video film.
Is there a way of giving the ai additional information as help such as pictures? For example, if you had a black and white video but you had some photographs taken on location in color while the video was being taken, can you give the ai this to help it colorize?
back in the day when B&W tvs were around they invented a filter you put in front of the screen to bring the colors out. too bad they couldn't have that filter for video editors.
I prefer to manually point out the objects (faces, plants, etc.) to the A.I. before colorizing. Does Photoshop allow you to do this? If not, then do any other programs or plugins?
I don't really know for sure but some A.I are really good at identifying objects as well, and even better at finding faces and body parts, combined with what you mentioned as well
Hmm, very interesting! Thank you for this video :) I would love to try to colorize a whole movie, but I think it's gonna make a mess... from scene to scene.
@@MDMZ I've tried yesterday with a famous old Italian movie: La Grande Guerra - with a scene at the beginning. Sadly the colorize doesn't stay "stable" on some things, especially the shirt of the main actor :(
HI I just watched your video and I like it, I have lots of old black and white movies that i like to colorize. I never done this before, I use Nero for cutting and editting and ... but never done colorize, so my question for you is: what program should I get? is it 1 program or more? can you give me the name and the site adress? I went to A.I Topazlabs site but to be honest I did not understand which program is the right one for me. Thanks for your help.
Hi Afsheen, I have many reasons to believe you haven't actually watched the full video 🤣, it's all explained in the tutorial, and video enhance doesn't do colorization 😉 hope that helps :)
Great video, thanks for uploading! I repeated the exact same process as you did, but when I drag my folder with the .png files to the droplet everything seems to work but the .psd files are nowhere to be found. It looks like it doesn't save the files. Do you know how to fix that problem? The only difference compared to what you do in the video is that I work on a MacBook instead of windows.
Hey Joran, make sure you're using the latest version of Photoshop try adding a save step to your actions before creating the droplet and see if that works, let me know :)
You mentioned this technique doesn’t work well for poor quality B&W videos. Is there another approach to improve the quality of a B&W video and then colorize it?
Photoshop auto colourisation shows the actual colours used for costumes and props at that time. It's funny because they are not always what you may expect. They used to choose some colours just because they were taking well in black and white even if they weren't pertinent at all with the caracter. You will rarely see bright red beacuse in b/w is getting really really dark, instead blue and purple are very common as they are rendering well in a grey scale.
3:20 interlacing is the effect for CRT televisions to help with displaying the image at a cleaner framerate. its meaningless for anything outside of that.
I used photoshop on the theme show for The Patty Duke show with the neuro filter to colorize it this is what it does default just start the neuralizer and changing no settings... Use batch processing to do this on image sequence under file menu automate or sonething ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0d07nXGWtCo.html
I would like a model capable of colorizing live video streams in real time on 3090ti/4090 class hardware. Then we could do high quality augmented reality on the quest two
very powerful laptop actually most have way way way way weaker ones nice tutorial, nice colors, shame though that to colorize 20min video you'll need like an hour of time, or longer with weaker setup, like 20min in enhance ai, 30 in photoshop, and 10 in premiere.. i mean an hour isn't that bad it's just disappointing that it's requiring 3 whole different tools, though it's very often like that nowadays when dealing with colors/upscaling
it's approximate, the colors of natural objects (faces, trees, water) tend to be more accurate since the AI is trained to identify those objects and assign natural color, but I doubt it could tell if the tree was shot in spring or fall, so it will most likely go with green, this is just my observation so far
@@MDMZhow do you colorize by hand frame by frame? Not using ai. I see hand colorization that’s takes way longer looks like it’s full colorize and way better
You should use the Topaz Dione model on interlaced footage to deinterlace it. Interlacing is for old analog TVs which used a scanning cathode ray. It's not for digital video and leaves jagged stripes on the footage where there is motion.
