So I got a new request for a detailed list of all the Avisynth plugins that are required to run the script. Here is the list with links to the .dlls.

-required Avisynth version: 2.5.8 or higher
AVS 2.5.8 Alpha 2 from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57023

-required to make .d2v file from raw .vob files after ripping them from DVD
DGIndex.exe from here:
http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/dgmpgdec149.zip

-required dll's (place just the indicated .dll from each of these in Avisynth "plugins" folder)

DGDecode.dll from here:
http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/dgmpgdec149.zip

DePan.dll from here:
http://avisynth.org.ru/depan/depan1100.zip

DePanEstimate.dll from here:
http://avisynth.org.ru/depan/depanestimate192.zip

mvtools.dll from here:
http://avisynth.org.ru/mvtools/mvtools-v1.9.3.zip

mt_masktools-26.dll from here:
http://manao4.free.fr/masktools-v2.0a35.zip

nnedi.dll from here:
http://bengal.missouri.edu/~kes25c/nnedi_v1.3.zip

RemoveDirt.dll from here:
http://home.arcor.de/kassandro/RemoveDirt/RemoveDirt.zip

RemoveGrain.dll from here:
http://home.pages.at/kassandro/RemoveGrain/RemoveGrain.zip

Repair.dll from here:
http://home.pages.at/kassandro/RemoveGrain/RemoveGrain.zip

hope this helps!

-G

Thanks DJ! I don't mind at all, in fact I was going to do the same thing, except I realized that I can't do it here at work, so I just posted the links instead.

-G

Ugh. I know, I've changed the crop values a few times in order to remove some artifacts, and I have not re-calculated what the PAL values should be, nor am I even sure they were ever right. I just couldn't figure out what was going on since your processed clips were my only PAL references, so I axed the whole PAL resizing stuff. If you would like, I could re-evaluate the appropriate crop values if you could encode and post a short, bright, unprocessed clip (no resizing, no cropping etc.) that shows the borders well. Might be worthwhile to post ESB and ROTJ raw clips as well, since you are anxious to do those too. I'm a ways off from doing the subtitles for ROTJ though.

I think you'll be happy with the quality and the speed of the script since your last encode. Sorry you have to do it again, but it'll be worth it! Post that clip and we'll get it right this time!

-G

Thanks guys for posting all the filters! It's a great help.

No problem. Make sure to use Avisynth 2.5.8 otherwise the "font_width" of the subtitles won't work.
Also, maybe dark_jedi would care to update his care package with the font in case not everyone has it.

-G

Thanks OSJ! I can't view them while at work, since they block rapidshare, but I will look at them tonight at home.

I have updated the script on page one with what I'm pretty sure (90% sure) are the correct crop values for the PAL ANH. I will test them on the clips OSJ posted later.

The current script has a setting at the beginning that allows you to choose PAL or NTSC, and then the rest of the script crops and resizes the appropriate amount automatically. Give it a try!

-G

Thanks! This is a cool thing!

I posted short clips of ANH, ESB and ROTJ. If they are to short, let me know.

OSJ,

those clips are very useful. Thank you. Turns out the PAL version is cropped on all sides more than the NTSC. I have updated the script on the first page with the correct crop values (only for ANH so far though) so give that a shot.

thanks,

-G

Only once at the beginning.

-G

No, it will look that way. The problem is that, before, I was actually using the FFT filter to do some of the stabilization work, but that caused a lot of banding in dark scenes that I just couldn't live with. It also caused bad motion estimates in places that actually added to the instablilty in spots. This version trys to maintain more of the grain of the original, which I never really meant to remove in the first place. I have thought about an option to remove more grain for those that hate the grain, but it will slow down the encoding considerably, and I'm not sure how artifact free it will be. Hopefully you can live with it, but if not, let me know. BUT, isn't the image so much more stable now?!!!! (for instance, compare the "Along time ago..." scene)

-G

I'm currently running at 2-3 fps, so I'm thinking it'll take a couple days. But my computer is a few years old. I haven't actually started to do the whole thing yet, just select parts. I've been using HC Encoder.

-G

HCEncoder is free. I've heard that CCE is a little better.

-G

Well, I tried a test encoding last night to try to do a fast degrain stage. As I suspected, there were too many artifacts. So, if you're looking for good degraining, it's gonna be Slooooooow. I'll keep playing around with some and make a suggestion soon. But, this will at least involve putting an FFT3D in, or re-calculating the motion vectors to do an MVDegrain. These are both painfully slow and these would need to be in addition to what I'm doing in the latest script.

-G