Today, 00:18
First of all I'd like to say that I find it a pity that the thread about "The Night To Remember" has now been closed. I watched your version: great work!
I have seen that happen in other forums too when discussions that start to be interesting get cut off....
By the way, I didn't bring up ComfyAI: I don't like it at all: far too complicated. Thanks for the tip to use it in portable mode. My 'money' is now on Hybrid + HAVC.
Two years ago I did "The Dam Busters" (1957) movie entirely with DeOldify (and upscaled to 1080p), but I didn't dare to put it on my Archive.org channel because of Copyright.
I can WeTransfer it to you, if you like.
To answer your question: the film about the London Underground was made by colorizing original B&W photos with Google Gemini (which uses Nano Banana).
It is still riddled with bugs, fantasizes and hallucinates far too often despite telling it not to in the prompt. Colorization is also inconsistent: some results are great but half the time it generates almost B&W results or hardly any colors. On average every fourth image it generates a completely random crap image, nothing to do with the prompt. Gemini admits it has flaws, due to over-complicating the algorithm that looks too far back in the Chat history and thus gets stuck in loops. Google is very lacks in solving these bugs.
Anyhow, the Gemini Nano Banana results are first passed on to Paintshop Pro (V7) which I use to manually get rid of the Gemini diamond shaped icon (bottom right). Then it is fed to various image-to-video AI's to create a 5 or 10 seconds video. For that I use Pixverse, Kling and (previously) Hailuoai (Minimax).
Color consistency is very good with these AI's. Pixverse has 60 daily credits, enough to create 2 videos of 5 seconds a day in 540p for free.
Gemini is great to colorize reference frames to be used with HAVC+Hybrid.
I then use TOPAZ video AI or AIarti to upscale the result from 540p to 1080p HD.
I know this has nothing to do with Hybrid, but I thought I should answer your question.
FYI: I don't like it that about 10% of my Youtube audience calls videos like the one about London: "AI slop" which it isn't. Viewers have more and more difficulty to distinguish between text-to-video AI generated "slop" and image-to-video AI based on actual photos.
My next video will be about Spitfire dogfights during the London Blitz, by using original B&W historic footage colorized with Hybrid + HAVC. So Selur will be pleased with that.
You can contact me via ricksfilmrestoration@gmail.com about anything unrelated to Hybrid in order not to upset Selur. Could/should be interesting for both of us....
I have seen that happen in other forums too when discussions that start to be interesting get cut off....
By the way, I didn't bring up ComfyAI: I don't like it at all: far too complicated. Thanks for the tip to use it in portable mode. My 'money' is now on Hybrid + HAVC.
Two years ago I did "The Dam Busters" (1957) movie entirely with DeOldify (and upscaled to 1080p), but I didn't dare to put it on my Archive.org channel because of Copyright.
I can WeTransfer it to you, if you like.
To answer your question: the film about the London Underground was made by colorizing original B&W photos with Google Gemini (which uses Nano Banana).
It is still riddled with bugs, fantasizes and hallucinates far too often despite telling it not to in the prompt. Colorization is also inconsistent: some results are great but half the time it generates almost B&W results or hardly any colors. On average every fourth image it generates a completely random crap image, nothing to do with the prompt. Gemini admits it has flaws, due to over-complicating the algorithm that looks too far back in the Chat history and thus gets stuck in loops. Google is very lacks in solving these bugs.
Anyhow, the Gemini Nano Banana results are first passed on to Paintshop Pro (V7) which I use to manually get rid of the Gemini diamond shaped icon (bottom right). Then it is fed to various image-to-video AI's to create a 5 or 10 seconds video. For that I use Pixverse, Kling and (previously) Hailuoai (Minimax).
Color consistency is very good with these AI's. Pixverse has 60 daily credits, enough to create 2 videos of 5 seconds a day in 540p for free.
Gemini is great to colorize reference frames to be used with HAVC+Hybrid.
I then use TOPAZ video AI or AIarti to upscale the result from 540p to 1080p HD.
I know this has nothing to do with Hybrid, but I thought I should answer your question.
FYI: I don't like it that about 10% of my Youtube audience calls videos like the one about London: "AI slop" which it isn't. Viewers have more and more difficulty to distinguish between text-to-video AI generated "slop" and image-to-video AI based on actual photos.
My next video will be about Spitfire dogfights during the London Blitz, by using original B&W historic footage colorized with Hybrid + HAVC. So Selur will be pleased with that.
You can contact me via ricksfilmrestoration@gmail.com about anything unrelated to Hybrid in order not to upset Selur. Could/should be interesting for both of us....