Spice Girls Spice Album Advert (Restored)

We’ve attempted to reconstruct these adverts before. This is version 4. pangenttechnologies. tumblr. com/ Victoria’s section is missing from our known copies of the first advert, and is reconstructed approximately using shots of Victoria which appear in later adverts using the same footage. Otherwise the editing is accurate. In the second version of this advert, the girls don’t speak. The main source was a bit damaged, but the editing should basically be accurate, nearly to the frame. Most audio was replaced from the CD, and most footage replaced from later adverts which used the same footage. For version 4, I have cleaned up the damaged source used for advert 2 frame by frame in Photoshop, removing glitches, and generating a handful of missing inbetween frames using After Effects pixel motion. Photoshop’s content-aware fill was used heavily. Some frames of Melanie Brown were affected by an interlacing mismatch, and have been reconstructed approximately. I have also used AI synthesis to generate entirely new frames throughout. In many cases, we had a high quality version of a shot (from a later edit), which cut off at a certain frame. We matched this frame with a cleaned-up version of the lower-quality complete shot, using its motion to synthesize new frames to match. This is especially obvious at the end of the shot of Victoria pointing in Advert 1, which was from a very low quality source. In this version, new frames have been synthesized to complete the shot in full quality (more or less). Many shots in Advert 2 have gone through the same process. Longer shots are synthesized and cross-dissolved back to the original (lower quality) source. A few shots are repeated here at the very end, when they appeared in longer form in overseas versions of the ad. I have also included a comparison shot of the restoration of Victoria pointing, and some of the original damaged frames which were hand-corrected to remove glitches and then synthesized to match the higher quality footage. -lw