Colorized Fights! Make it happen!

Discussion in 'Classic Boxing Forum' started by BoxingPurest, Mar 15, 2019.



  1. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    Colorization is a grueling frame by frame process.
    The equipment is cheap. Time is the cost.

    I strongly believe we will have automated colorization tools conservatively within the next decade.
    And I don't want to spin my wheels grinding out a video that will soon take 1% the time to create.
    I am a bit antsy to just do it manually because I want to see it as much if not more than the next person, but the cost is pretty high.
     
  2. Russell

    Russell VIP Member Full Member

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    Why I never! Some of the best fights I've ever seen have been black and white!

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    Russell VIP Member Full Member

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  4. Russell

    Russell VIP Member Full Member

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    I don't think I can be friends with you guys anymore.

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  5. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    True, but IMO seeing them in colour makes it all more vivid.

    https://streamable.com/d62r7
     
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  6. Pat M

    Pat M Active Member Full Member

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    black and white footage looks good with good fighters. The technique, skills, and movement are either there or they are not. This is a good one!
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  7. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    imagine it in colour though, Russell. COLOUR.

    Seriously though that would be amazing.
     
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  8. KasimirKid

    KasimirKid Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Reznik, I made the unpardonable mistake of being lazy and relying on my faulty memory. I apologize for confusing your work with the Ike William compilation which was done by someone with the youtube handle of haNZAgod .
     
  9. downgoeslyle

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    Considering what Peter Jackson done with the WW1 films it could be amazing. ESPN and Steve Lott should be the ones to bankroll it.
     
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  10. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I made a post about the colorization if fights a few months ago. The best idea I came up with was using college majors to colorize the fights as projects (those in the field of film). It would be free...but we would need boxing fans in the right places lol
     
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  11. BoxingPurest

    BoxingPurest Active Member Full Member

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    yes sir think you for what you have done so far hope that tech comes out sooner than later. But, if anyone is qualified to answer the question it would certainly be you! Thank you for your video's love em!
     
  12. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Can we go back and colorize Dempsey’s reign so he fights them guys he was ducking?
     
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  13. BoxingPurest

    BoxingPurest Active Member Full Member

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    Hey i'm for it maybe not a bad idea?
     
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  14. BoxingPurest

    BoxingPurest Active Member Full Member

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    Man i've never seen that clip like that in such good quality with the time correct and color wow!! That was awesome! thank you for sharing that
     
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  15. billy smith

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    if your talking The Dempsey one. Reznick did not do them. actuality they were done by the Smithsonian at enormous expense. i was the on who cut those clips out which Reznick later used and pasted his name all over it. i thought about doing that before i ever posted it. but then i thought thats what people with no talent do. the only thing Reznick does plagiarize pinches other peoples work Colorizing black and white is done frame by fame extremely labor extensive. There are some applications like "colorization of b/w movies" out there but because of the inherent flaws in not only in older film but in the proper colors in the proper places. frame by frame. your talking around 20 to 25 fps to give the illusion of motion.. it be nice there was an app that would do it. there are but they are flawed and buggy. especially dealing with older grainy films stocks. takes a bunch of experts to do a competant job