Not long after Nie Cai finished drawing the news points, Director Xue came back soon.
"Nie Cai, let's go... Such a big central station doesn't even have a decent camera. How can we do our work?"
His face was still a little blue, his brows were furrowed, and he said angrily.
From the look on his face, he seemed to have hit a big snag with his leader, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten so angry.
Nie Cai said comfortingly: "It's okay, Director Xue, I'll just use this Panasonic m9000. As long as it works, don't be picky."
He originally had an artifact like a pupil camera, and he didn't care at all about external things like cameras.
"You don't think it's embarrassing to do this, but I still think it's embarrassing... Let's go. Ouyang's injury hasn't healed yet anyway. You can use his machine first, and I'll find another machine later."
Director Xue suddenly became anxious and pulled Nie Cai out.
Let your men go around shooting things with an old-fashioned camera? If you don't want to be laughed at, Director Xue will not really let Nie Cai use this Panasonic m9000 to embarrass himself.
With a trace of regret, Nie Cai and Director Xue left the computer room together.
Nie Cai seemed to have remembered something and said, "By the way, I heard Uncle Luo say just now that there is a file restoration team in our station?"
"Why did you suddenly mention this thing? I remember that there was indeed such a group, led by people from the Technical Department, working with people from the Central Archives
Director Xue was a little strange and said: "I have an old friend in this group... By the way, he is the person I want to take you to find now and ask him to find you a machine."
"Looking for it? How to find it?"
Nie Cai was a little surprised. Apart from the computer room, where else could he get a camera
"You'll find out if you follow me."
Director Xue smiled mysteriously and said.
After saying that, Director Xue led Nie Cai into the stairs and walked downstairs.
I don’t know how long I walked, but Director Xue finally stopped at the door of an office.
"The third office of CCTV's technical department?"
Nie Cai glanced at the sign on the door and said with some doubts.
"Yes, this is it."
Director Xue opened the door carelessly and yelled into the dark office.
"Old Qin, where are we?"
The third office of the technical department is not large in area. It is covered by thick curtains and looks very dark.
In this office, a thin, middle-aged man opened the door from a dark room, opened the curtain and walked out. Only then did he realize that the person who came was Director Xue.
He raised his head and said helplessly: "Old Qin, next time you come to my office, can you knock on the door? I was so scared that I almost dropped the things in my hands."
Nie Cai followed the sound and saw this middle-aged man walking out of Ali from the dark room wearing a pair of plastic gloves.
"Anyway, your place is full of junk. If something breaks, it will break."
Director Xue walked into the office unceremoniously and said, "I am missing a machine in my column. Can you get me one?"
"Why are you looking for me? Go to the leader and apply to buy it. Isn't it all rubbish here?"
The short middle-aged man took off his plastic test gloves and put them away, humming.
"Old Qin, am I kidding... Let me introduce to you. This is Nie Cai, the new reporter in our column."
Director Xue seemed to be very familiar with this old Qin, and said to Nie Cai: "This is Qin Xiao from the technical department. We used to be old partners, but now his legs and feet are not good, so he went to a technical position."
"Hello, Brother Qin."
Nie Cai didn't know why Director Xue brought him here, but he still said it honestly.
"Nie Cai? Are you the Nie Cai who made a big splash in "Eastern Time and Space" yesterday?"
Qin Xiao was a little unimpressed at first, but after hearing Nie Cai's name, he looked at Nie Cai in surprise and said.
After the broadcast accident yesterday, Chen Mang immediately found people from the technical department and asked them to repair the teleprompter. It happened that Qin Xiao was the one to do it.
Today, he just went to the studio of "Eastern Time and Space" to upgrade the font of the teleprompter so that the font supports French and other multi-language fonts. This time, the previous crash phenomenon will no longer occur.
"Not only is he in the limelight, a lot of people are rushing to get him today..."
Director Xue was a little proud, but when he thought about what happened in the computer room, he became a little angry and said: "Old Qin, let me tell you, today I went to the computer room to sign for Nie Cai's machine, but I didn't expect that the machine was snatched away by other columns. I left, I went to the leader and he didn’t give me any clear explanation, so I could only find you here.”
"It's easy to say... I have the bodies of three cameras here. The Xinwen Network guys accidentally fell into the water when they were filming the typhoon last time. The manufacturer said they were scrapped, but I took them apart and they were still working. Assembled into a complete machine.”
After saying that, Qin Xiao took out a camera from the cabinet and handed it to Director Xue.
"Great, I knew you would have some private goods here. Is this machine stable to use?"
Qin Xiao's face was slightly excited and he said.
As the most valued department of the news department, "Xinwen Lianbo" naturally has the best camera, which is Sony's new camera pxw-x180.
"Of course it's stable. I replaced a few of the chip welds that had gotten into the water, and it was able to turn on again... Are you still worried about my technology? It's exactly the same as the original one. If you don't believe me, try it for a while and see."
Qin Xiao seemed to be a little disdainful and said.
Director Xue turned on the camera and tried to take a few pictures. Sure enough, everything was normal, and then handed the camera to Nie Cai.
"Qin Xiao can perform chip-level repairs. This technology is really amazing."
Nie Cai took the camera and said with some amazement.
This kind of camera has a sophisticated structure and is expensive. If there is any problem, it will cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands to send it back to the manufacturer for repair. But Qin Xiao can actually repair this kind of professional camera by himself. This is a very remarkable skill.
With this technology, Qin Xiao estimates that he can save Taili at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of maintenance expenses a year.
"What's the use of being awesome? Why don't you be assigned to the third office..."
Qin Xiao smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, Lao Xue, I won't tell you anymore. I still have a pile of films waiting to be repaired. I should be able to use ultrasonic waves to develop another roll of film before I get off work today."
He put on the plastic gloves he had put aside again and walked back into the darkroom.
Seeing Qin Xiao disappear, Director Xue felt a little emotional and said, "Nie Cai, didn't you just say you wanted to find the file restoration team? This old Qin is the leader of the file restoration team."
"It's him?"
Nie Cai was suddenly surprised and said.
He heard Director Qin seem to be mumbling terms such as ultrasonic washing and scanning digital intermediates, and wondered what he did. Unexpectedly, he was the leader of the archive restoration team.
"That's right, the station launched a project two years ago. It was said to be a precious historical archive restoration project. We cooperated with people from the Central Archives to restore some important historical materials. Lao Qin is the person in charge of our station."
Director Xue sighed and said: "This plan sounds very wonderful. It is to restore the precious historical archives stored in our central station and make these video materials visible again... But the problem is that the station's funding is stingy. The progress was extremely slow. After two years, there used to be an assistant, but then the assistant couldn't bear it anymore and resigned."
"Originally, with Lao Qin's qualifications and skills, he was definitely a strong candidate for the director of the technical department, but after he was forcibly appointed as the leader of the file restoration team, all his time was wasted here, and the terrible thing was that he did not do anything at all. He didn’t produce any results, so he didn’t have a share in last year’s competition for the position of director of the technical department.”
Nie Cai seemed to understand, and said, "Director Xue, you mean... someone sent him here on purpose?"
"Of course it is. Is it that easy to repair the data on the Founding Ceremony? It has to be repaired frame by frame. If he were to rely on himself, it would probably take several years to repair it in just a few dozen seconds, right?"
Director Xue said a little angry.
Lao Qin has been his old partner for many years. He is a good person, but honest people are easy to bully. He can't even notice such an obvious rejection, and he falls into the trap without realizing it.
At the beginning, the leader of the station said that this was a political mission assigned by the central government, and promised that after the repairs were completed, he would be given the treatment of the director of the technical department, and people in the military system would give him medals. Now that he has accepted this political mission, there is no way Canceled, I guess the second half of my career will be spent here. "
At that time, Director Xue was out shooting something. He didn't know about this matter and did not discuss it with Lao Qin. Otherwise, he would never let Lao Qin take on this political task. This was obviously a trap set by the director of Jinggang's technical department. .
I heard that the person who was the director of the technical department of Jinggang was a nephew of the Taiwan leader. With this connection, it was no wonder that Lao Qin, who wanted to be the director of the technical department of Jinggang, was sent here.
"The Founding Ceremony? It turns out that he just restored the fragments of the Founding Ceremony..."
Nie Cai's heart suddenly moved and he said in surprise.
Just now, Director Xue said that he would take him to find the file restoration team. He had not thought that the file restoration team would be such a shabby and small office.
Now after hearing Director Xue's words, Nie Cai finally understood that the file restoration team of Qing Dynasty only had a polished commander like Lao Qin!
"I want to see Brother Qin's work... is that possible? I am particularly interested in these antiques and would like to take a look."
Nie Cai put down the camera in his hand, glanced at the darkroom Qin Xiao had just entered, and said.
"Of course. Those junk things are all burnt and have been exposed a long time ago. If you put them in the darkroom, you just take off your pants and fart."
Director Xue nodded and took Nie Cai in.
Lifting the thick curtain at the door, I saw only dim dark red light in this narrow darkroom, with various equipment piled messily inside, making it look even smaller.
"Old Xue, if you don't go back yet, why are you in my way?"
Qin Xiao looked at Director Xue and Nie Cai who walked in, and said with a frown.
Wearing plastic gloves, he held a piece of film and soaked it in a pool. A piece of equipment was humming and causing a fine splash of water.
"Brother Qin, I heard that you were restoring the film of "The Founding Ceremony of the People's Republic of China". I came here to take a look. I am particularly interested in these things..."
Nie Cai took a look and found that the piece of film Qin Xiao was holding was indeed emitting a dazzling golden light, and he immediately became excited.
Sure enough, it was the film of the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China. I didn't expect that this film was actually in the hands of Qin Xiao.
"What's so interesting about this... I get upset every day repairing these things, but unfortunately I can't get rid of them, otherwise I will be subject to military discipline. Oh, you can just watch it if you want."
After finishing speaking, he pointed to a laptop computer placed in the darkroom and said: "Only about two minutes of film in the film on the stage are relatively complete. It took me almost two years to repair it. By thirty seconds, the damage to the film at the back was even more serious, and we don’t know how long it will take to repair it.”
Qin Xiao sighed and said helplessly.
Regardless of the age of the film, these film films will one day have to begin its restoration process. This is because film has a shelf life.
It is said that the best quality film can guarantee the quality for 1250 years under the most ideal conditions. However, due to various reasons, the ideal conditions are not reached. The film will fade, scratch, tear, peel off, etc. during the storage process. Various injuries such as damage to the vocal tract.
The repair of burned film is even more difficult, including image quality restoration and sound restoration. Generally speaking, repairing a movie involves sorting and cleaning the materials. Repairing the film requires comparing different copies to obtain the best possible result. Possible complete restoration of footage. After the collection is completed, the film needs to be cleaned by ultrasonic washing. After finishing, the film is scanned into a digital intermediate and output to the hard drive, and then color corrected and repaired through the digital intermediate. Depending on the degree of film fading, the colorist will perform color correction on the film. After that, five tasks need to be carried out: automatic repair, manual removal of dirty spots and scratches, jitter removal, flicker removal, and video frame loss calculation. The above work needs to be repaired frame by frame. The workload of a one-hour film is about 140,000 frames, and this is just the repair of the picture.
After that, the sound scanning and restoration stage still needs to be carried out. The sound needs to be captured in digital format from the film, and the sound needs to be denoised and restored through audio restoration equipment. After the sound restoration is completed, the repaired video and audio products must be synthesized, and the picture and sound must be completed for special circumstances. After the repair is completed, the synthesized data will be output to the tape library for storage, packaged into a unified format for the theater, and HD-D5 or HD-SR high-definition video tapes will be transcribed for identification and transcoding. All restored films are in digital format, and the workload is huge.