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Very nice, I always wondered if that was possible with avisynth, could you please post a script example on this? but how the heck do you solve the warping issue?

Darth Editous said:

Script was:

gout=imagesource("gout.tga").flipvertical.converttorgb32
cap=imagesource("jsc.tga").flipvertical.converttorgb32
mask=gout.levels(240,1,240,0,255).showgreen
stackvertical(stackhorizontal(gout,cap).reduceby2,fuse(gout,cap,mask))

Fusion plugin is here.

DE

Nice, will check it out. :) I guess it could at least realistically be done on a few short sequences that is problematic in the GOUT if you manage to make them align properly (warping). Am I right about what warping means here? 

I was playing around with blending GOUT with JSC in Photoshop one day when I was bored, before I realized there's nothing in the GOUT to benefit from.

As I've recently done the GOUT-'Pyramid' LD frame-by-frame comparison now I could see clearly the GOUT faults - you can see them here too - also if I'm still not happy with the ColourLike script results... then I've taken the new 'Pyramid' LD capture and treated with a slighty modified WhiteMagic 0.5 script - only more saturated to have a better overall color and not so lifeless as before:

Still thinking that, also if it's not perfect yet, "white magic is better - now with added colors" ;-)

What do you think?

I'm resurrecting my old thread to post some news.

As I've done "The Thing" project lately, and results were not bad, I thought to use the same technique to color grading the "pyramid" captures.

Here you are a screenshot; first "pyramid" as is, second with noise reduction and color matching my [ruLes] project (click for bigger version):

a clip is available HERE

Still not perfect, but waaay better than before, don't you think?

I like it.

Very nice, Andrea! I smell OUT ruLes 3.0!

Avatar_Emil said:

Very nice, Andrea! I smell OUT ruLes 3.0!

What a good sense of smell have you! (^^,)

Well, as I deleted ALL the captures I used for OUT (and SET too), what I need is to recapture them all (again) possibly with a better PAL player, try to find an NTSC smear-free trilogy on laserdisc (Technidisc) and capture them with the Pioneer HLD-X9, then use the PaNup script to match them to obtain a better video quality and... presto! A OUT [ruLes 3.0] will be ready...

In the meanwhile, Harmy will release his DE 2.5, and team negative1 will release their version... so, probably I'll give up! (**/) - I do LOVE laserdisc, and I "squeezed" out every bit of details from it, but when a higher resolution source is available, it's better to use it...

With this, I could always think to redo the SET trilogy, as I think there is still possible to realize a more than decent version using laserdisc as a source - until someone would like to do a De-Re-Specialized edition, something like what Harmy did with his DE, but obtaining a 1997 version... in this case, this person WILL need some part from the laserdisc, so I hope he/she will contact me!

The ending scene of the Gold/Pyramid French edition also looks pretty good to me.

Here's the scene uploaded to Vimeo, no color corrections, just a raw LD capture: https://vimeo.com/75260761

password: originaltrilogy

An example of "less is more" enhancement, made on Spanish LD old capture - top original, bottom enhanced:

(you can download the clip here, it's only 486KB)

In this screenshot the enhanced version seems. ehr, less enhanced, as there is a lot of grain in it... I actually added it, because in motion it seems more natural, while with the previous setting it seemed a bit "plastic-y".

It's good to see someone else still interested in laserdisc-related stuff!

You can undo that, NTSC pulldown can be more destructive if not done properly...

352 scanlines, eh?

That's the same vertical resolution as NTSC 2.35:1 SD anamorphic, não?