Whats Film Gimp?
Film Gimp is a tool for retouching motion pictures frame by frame. A typical application is removing dust marks after film is digitized. Scanning the negative is the first step in post-production, and the scans must be cleaned up to remove dust and scratches. Film Gimp also is used to eliminate wires when actors are being flown in wire rigs. A movie fundamentally is just a bunch of frames, and that’s what Film Gimp operates on. It’s different from a video editor that works on one large file. Each frame of a film negative is scanned to become a single image file named with a sequential number. A frame manager in Film Gimp helps the user walk through the images one-by-one. The image retouching itself is about the same as using Gimp, which Film Gimp is based upon. Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a popular open source alternative to Photoshop. Movies are normally scanned at 2k wide resolution and 16-bits per pixel component. A significant difference between Gimp and Film Gimp is c
