Enhancement and Digital Image Restoration Tools used on

“Mother of Normandy” Documentary Project

In working with various documentary projects, many of the films we see use old archival footage in one form or another. In many cases, this archival footage is of poor quality with heavy flicker, dirt and scratches that can distract you from the story and doesn’t match the polished look of the film.

Roush Media’s latest project “Mother of Normandy” is an example of this type of issue. “Mother of Normandy” is the story of Madame Simone Renaud, the wife of the mayor of St. Mere Eglise, the first town liberated in the World War II D-Day invasion. Madame Renauld spent a lifetime tending to the graves of those American soldiers who died overseas, and corresponding with their loved ones back home.

With “Mother of Normandy” Keith Roush, senior colorist at Roush Media, was not only able to color grade beautiful images but was also able to greatly enhance the quality of these archival clips using our restoration tools. “When you truly want a no-compromise finish on your documentary, our technology allows for some amazing results. When you blend different types of footage, from YouTube to Film Scans, you get differences in frame rates and quality. Our Emmy award-winning algorithms were used for frame rate conversions, grain & noise reduction, sharpening for soft focus, dust and dirt removal, scratch removal, removal of film flickering, film weaving, high quality uprezzing, and adding grain to adjust and match the texture of images. Now try that on your desktop!”

Tim Lowry, Co-Producer and Post Production Supervisor for “Mother of Normandy”, had this to say: “It was truly a pleasure working with senior colorist Keith Roush at Roush Media. He’s skills surpass those of many in this business and he was an irreplaceable asset to our production. We chose Roush Media for the final coloring and processing of our film “Mother of Normandy” for several reasons, but the most important reason was for the amazing film restoration tools they have. We had lots of old war footage, PAL footage, 16mm, 4×3 and 16×9 formats that were badly damaged. Roush Media delivered everything they promised. Not only did they do an outstanding job of coloring our film, but they did an amazing job of restoring our film elements and in some case making them look even better than they were originally shot. It was well worth the price. So, if you want your film finished right, then you must use Roush Media…Period.”