A.I. Upscaled Columbine Videos ( + MEGA link)

In the previous weeks I upscaled a lot of Columbine related videos. Originally I only had the upscale of Rampart Range in my mind, but after the Discord server group and Bill Ockham's encourangement, I decided to upscale many more.

I would like to warn everyone that not all of the videos have a "perfect look", because I had to work with all kinds of source files. If I find a better quality source file, I will update the already existing upscale with a new one.

Tools used:

Dain 0.43 - An A.I., which doubles the FPS number of the video
Topaz Video Enhance A.I. - As it's name says, it upscales the video into a higher resolution


The list of the upscales:



Rampart Range (1080p - 60 FPS)

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Hitmen for Hire (1080p - 60 FPS)

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Car Wax Commercial (1080p - 60 FPS)

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Dylan Shopping (1080p - 60 FPS)

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Eric Harris - Mock Kidnapping (1080p - 60 FPS)

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CHS Highway Patrol (Close to 1080p - 60 FPS)

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Eric in Columbine (Close to 1080p - 30 FPS due to compatibility problems)

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The Harris Home (1080p - 60 FPS)

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Morning Ride to Columbine (Close to 1080p - 60 FPS)

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Radioactive Clothing (Close to 1080p - 50 FPS)

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UPDATE (01/05/2021)

Eric in a store on 04-20-99 (1080p-ish - 25 FPS)

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UPDATE (01/09/2021)

Dylan Klebold - Pulp Fiction (1080p - 60 FPS)

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UPDATE (02/27/2021)

Dylan Behind Blackjack's (1080p-ish - 60 FPS)

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You can download the upscales here (Warning! Some of them are in X265 MP4 format instead of x264.)
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Good job on making the videos look better.

Check out my Master Archive for Originals and more videos if you want.

Good quality, thanks for the upscaling.

Wow, that look neat !
Heh, I wish I could have an hi-8 camera like they used to have ! Do you know what kind of camera recording they own ? Simple question

Sick, TY<3

The security footage about Eric in a store and Dylan's Pulp Fiction remake had been added too

Well done.

"Dylan Behind Blackjack's" had been added too. I upscaled this for Bill Ockham back then and he put it up on his since defunct second channel.

The problem with these videos is that they were first made digital without any kind of time base correction or line sync. I suspect whomever first did so, used a dongle running straight from a low quality VHS player to their PC. The whole image is compromised in many of those videos - the waviness one sees on straight lines permeates throughout a frame and can't be fixed with software. It isn't the source file which is a problem, but the capture.

As such, some of the mushy looking shots, get rendered even mushier in an AI upscaler. The way it has handled faces in some of those shots is awful.

I'm noticing as more people use this software it's perceived as some kind of restoration tool. It isn't. It can be useful for denoising clips, but lets not be fooled we are seeing anything better here. Someone needs to scan the videos in from their master tapes, but do it properly, correcting errors and saving in a lossless format.

sororityalpha wrote:

Good job on making the videos look better.

Check out my Master Archive for Originals and more videos if you want.

Sorry for writing this here, but I cannot send a PM for you. "^^

I just noticed that the UNCUT version of Zero Hour - Massacre at Columbine High got removed from Youtube (the offical one). I still have it and if you want, I can put it up to MEGA, so you can add it to the archive

Good work, upscaling is pretty hit or miss because it guesses what it "thinks" should be there, what blew my mind was the gas station CCTV footage and the black jack's video