dark_jedi, you can ignore my PM's.  I think I finally figured out the thing.  I'm looking forward to seeing what you've done.

TV's Frink said:

dark_jedi, you can ignore my PM's.  I think I finally figured out the thing.  I'm looking forward to seeing what you've done.

well if you need any help just drop me a line.

Hi DJ, I'm a bit behind - did you use the menus on this latest version? If not I can put the links to the materials up on here in case folks want to do it themselves...

Jonno said:

Hi DJ, I'm a bit behind - did you use the menus on this latest version? If not I can put the links to the materials up on here in case folks want to do it themselves...

Not yet but I intend to give it a whirl,version 2 has not been uploaded yet.

dark_jedi said:

Jonno said:

Hi DJ, I'm a bit behind - did you use the menus on this latest version? If not I can put the links to the materials up on here in case folks want to do it themselves...

Not yet but I intend to give it a whirl,version 2 has not been uploaded yet.

 DJ,

might want to wait until I get all the scripts worked out, otherwise you will not have de-ringing, improved anti-aliasing, and improved image stabilization.

ESB is coming along nicely.

-G

I've been doing some playing around with AviSynth and the GOUT, and thought I'd post this here in case anyone was interested in the results:

Left: DVD          Middle: filtered GOUT          Right: unaltered GOUT

The geometry of the image and the colour of the sky are down to my own little programs, written specifically for this scene.

DE

Darth Editous said:

I've been doing some playing around with AviSynth and the GOUT, and thought I'd post this here in case anyone was interested in the results:

Left: DVD          Middle: filtered GOUT          Right: unaltered GOUT

The geometry of the image and the colour of the sky are down to my own little programs, written specifically for this scene.

DE

 

Very impressive! Very nice colors. Love it.

Very impressive! Very nice colors. Love it.

I'll have to double check, but apart from the sky the only colour adjustment was an RGB gamma adjustment to/from (I can never remember how it works) 0.71.

I've only skimmed this thread briefly, but I caught sight of some stuff on scaling. FWIW, I would only do any resizing/interpolating to reduce aliasing, then let the TV scale it from there. The upscaled images I saw from either this or g-force's thread looked okay, but I think TVs these days are capable of better (Samsung LEDs are the best upscalers I've seen up close).

If you encode to 1080p, you're stuck with that upscaling, even if you get a better TV.

DE

These DVD's sound amazing! Are they DVD-5 or DVD-9?

g-force said:

dark_jedi said:

Jonno said:

Hi DJ, I'm a bit behind - did you use the menus on this latest version? If not I can put the links to the materials up on here in case folks want to do it themselves...

Not yet but I intend to give it a whirl,version 2 has not been uploaded yet.

 DJ,

might want to wait until I get all the scripts worked out, otherwise you will not have de-ringing, improved anti-aliasing, and improved image stabilization.

ESB is coming along nicely.

-G

Anything to look at yet,I will surely do some testing but it really has to knock my sox off before I do this whole thing over again.

What happened to the AVCHDs?  Are they still in production?  I downloaded the DVDs from the usual place, a while ago, but I have not seen the AVCHDs.

If this GOUT sourced AVCHD really is of a reasonably high quality, couldn't a hybrid be made with Darth Editous new 480p project?  One could take the footage that was untouched in the special edition, replete with all DE's fixes, and add in the theatrical footage for places where the special addition did make changes, such as Mos Eisley.  This would make a restored theatrical version, but one with DE's fixes.  That sounds like the perfect Star Wars to me. 

I know there would be a slight difference in quality between the two, but I for one would find that acceptable.  Much as I admire Adywan's ANH:R, I ultimately prefer the original films; at the same time, I am not such a purist that I don't appreciate all DE's fixes.  This sounds like a perfect way to make a polished theatrical version. 

Do DJ and DE have any thoughts on this? 

Sorry, but what would the point of having it be an AVCHD be?

Sumguy21 said:

Sorry, but what would the point of having it be an AVCHD be?

 

I don't like PAL speed up.  I do actually notice it.  It irritates me.

I don't like NTSC telecine judder.  I do actually notice it.  It irritates me.

AVCHDs have neither of those problems.  There is also the fact that h.264 video on a DVD-5 AVCHD almost certainly has the same quality as MPEG-2 video on a standard definition DVD-9, and DVD-5s are cheaper.

Chewtobacca said:

Do DJ and DE have any thoughts on this? 

Wow, I must have missed that I was being asked first time around - do I have any thoughts on this? Not so much, no... that is to say, it could indeed be done (I'm not sure what you mean by my new 480p project - if I do another edit before SW comes out on BD, it'll be based on the PAL DVD again).

The noise reduction is just too bad in the GOUT for me to want to do this for every SE addition - it was okay for that checkpoint scene, but (for example) when they go past the next Ronto before stopping outside the Cantina, the GOUT quality is abysmal.

DE