Perhaps a cleaned up Puggo? But I think negative 1 might trump all sources in the coming months....

Mavimao said:

Perhaps a cleaned up Puggo? But I think negative 1 might trump all sources in the coming months....

yup, we hope so.

will definitely get back to you,

once we get around to it.

moth3r check your pm.

later

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Moth3r said:

Sort of a follow-up to this thread; what is the best source for the ~140 frames of the infamous Mos Eisley speeder pass-by shot?

This shot is one of the best examples from the GOUT DVD showing the detail loss as a result of DVNR smearing (upscaled to 720p):

Here's the same frame from the French THX laserdisc release - more detail is retained, but overall it still looks like shit:

How's this:

DeEd v2.0:

 

Done using a cleaned up version of JSC (thanks to Laserschwert).

I'm actually considering graining it up a bit for the final version, since this clean, it seems inaccurate.

Moth3r said:

Sort of a follow-up to this thread; what is the best source for the ~140 frames of the infamous Mos Eisley speeder pass-by shot? 

If we're talking laserdisc, I would say it's either the SC

or SWE (Technidisc)

The SWE seems to have more horizontal resolution than the JSC but less vertical. It's hard to decide what looks better. Also, I think the JSC seems to look worse because it's less contrasty, compare it with the DeEd, which uses the JSC but it's cleaned up and the colours are tweaked:

JSC

SWE

DeEd

Well, this shot always looked like crap, having just seen what this shot looks like on a well preserved IB print, it doesn't get much better that these DVNR-less LD captures.

This shot should be grainy, clean it up, and you just make the effect stand out as even more fake, I can understand why Harmy needs to do it as it needs to fit the rest of his footage. Personally I think it's a little too clean, fine detail is gone along with a slightly flat and blurry quality, especially were the sky meets the buildings.

Well, yeah, it had to fit with the SE footage within the same shot. Like I said, I'm gonna add the grain back for the final version (though probably not as much).

Harmy said:

Well, yeah, it had to fit with the SE footage within the same shot. Like I said, I'm gonna add the grain back for the final version (though probably not as much).

 Oh, I see. I guess it also looks much better in motion.

Yeah, it does.

BTW if some are interested in specific smearfree scenes from the Technidisc, I can always upload them in lossless avi for you. But if you think the Special Collection is dirty you haven't seen this one. ;)

darnit, still getting to that shot..soon,

but here's a previous one... sample over

60 frames, every 10 frames..

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later

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Red5 said:

-1 what type of denoising are you using or is the smooth look just a result of downscaling, would love to see one or two raw.

 

 

 

no denoising, it's just a simple rescale from this:

slightly bigger 720p version here:

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http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/3382/sw140000.jpg

later

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