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September 17, 2026
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Add Frame forward to restore faded color films

  • September 17, 2026
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Please add the Adobe sneak peaks app Frame Forward to Premiere Pro and After Effects. It seems like it would extremely useful in my attempt at restoring faded color movies. To my eye I can make an educated guess as to what the faded color in a film should be but manually rotoscoping and masking is too tedious. I could manually restore one frame in photoshop for frame forward to reference and propagate for the whole scene, and perhaps in other scenes if it could “learn” scene elements and their correct colors. Going beyond Frame forward perhaps there’s a way to make an ai system that can use known facts (I.e. color dyes used in 1930’s Kodacolor regular 16mm movie film, clothing dyes and colors of 1930 fashions, New England summer vegetation colors etc.).  This info could be added to the restoration recipe to come up with a best guess as to what the original look was. Automatically propagating still frame work done in Photoshop to a moving scene is a very useful feature.