[STEREO REMASTER] Al Bowlly - Midnight, the Stars and You

Описание: Most digital releases of this song are de-noised and reverbed, but I found a good 90's CD release with dynamic range. The vocals were the easiest part (separate, clean, restore, rebalance). The instrumental took time since there are both strings and horns. I isolated most of the bass and piano, compressed it. The other instruments I had to leave alone. Initially I had the piano to the far right, but the strings couldn't balance the left channel on their own. For the video I went with the original photo from The Shining (of course). It was released publicly, but the top section was missing. I reconstructed it and Jack Nicholson's face from screenshotting the 4K transfer of the film, and editing them back together. I wanted to AI animate the picture, but I don't have the specs to run ComfyUI. The song is so long anyway that AI might not know how to fill the duration. I wanted to try a parallax with the foreground/background, but it was so tedious and if they came out of sync there'd be a bunch of repeating figures. I settled with tilting the photo instead, so it doesn't appear as stagnant. Since it was complicated, I used kolorize.cc to do the base work, then cleaned and modified it with GIMP.
Stanley Kubrick didn't do very much to the original photo. In the film (originally 4:3), he tracks-in with a cut-out of Jack Nicholson on top. For the closeup, he cleaned a tear on the upper right and printed a copy with Jack airbrushed-in so you don't notice the cutout (Jack is also less tilted). He didn't do anything else, it's just a very occult-looking picture. The airbrushing was good for its time, but could've been better. You can tell Jack's photo was newer with less grain, and the work left reflection marks. Hopefully I made it more convincing.
Audio source:
   • Midnight, The Stars and You  
Photo sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19...
   • The Shining 4K HDR | Ending Scene - Extended  
AI site for separating vocals and cleaning:
x-minus.pro/ai
AI site for separating instruments:
lalal.ai
Audio mixing program: Audacity
Photo colorizer:
kolorize.cc
Photo editor: GIMP
Photo upscaler: Gigapixel
Video program: Sony Vegas
Uploaded at 96khz 24 bit
Music by Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell, and Reg Connelly
Performed by Ray Noble and His Orchestra with vocals by Al Bowlly on 16 February 1934 at Abbey Road Studios 2, London, UK.
Photo taken on 14 February 1921 at St. Valentine's dance and ballroom dancing competition; Empress Rooms at the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington, London. The man in the middle was identified as dance instructor Santos Casani. The woman to his right may be his dance partner, Jose Lennard.
His Master's Voice – B 6461