>>262Great job! I didn't see much of Dre's software but it seems like it works out frame by frame, that's insane but it looks great. I've always wanted to do a frame by frame restoration because like you said Photoshop can greatly enhance a film.
LUT's are fairly easy to use specially if you have a simple video editor.
For a simple digital restoration I usually correct the colours & levels manually, sometimes I find a useful LUT that makes the job somewhat easier but in my opinion if you want to render and clean an entire film using one or various software you'd need dedicated heavy-ish horsepower. Or at least a nearly new, clean PC. I used to work on my brother's Mac laptop and that was a low-end wonder for digital edits. You can always process the film in segments if you don't want to strain a "cheap" PC I guess
This is a quick single frame edit I made for one of my favourite scenes of Madness, (the croc statue) tho I can't remember if the before pic was already enhanced. Just imagine what an actual frame by frame restoration could look like.
I take it you don't have much memory on your PC? I am dying of stress because I am in the same situation, all of my work I've done it in a shitty second hand laptop that will soon die, depression and alcoholism are seriously affecting me.