FINAL AVISYNTH SCRIPTS WILL BE IN THIS FIRST POST
Welcome to the ROTGOUT (Return of the “George’s Original Unaltered Trilogy”) preservation & restoration thread!
Utilizing the PAL GOUT DVDs, I have created BD-compliant 720p encodes of the films, paired with GOUT-sycned LaserDisc audio. Each film in the trilogy has been given a basic cleanup via Avisynth (anti-aliasing, minimal noise removal, and color correction) and upscaled to 720p. Overall, this is still very much the GOUT, but with minor enhancements and uncompressed audio. These files are NTSC GOUT synced, so you can mux in any other mixes you want might.
This is V1 that includes burnt-in alien subtitles, LPCM audio (sourced from the 1993 LaserDiscs), and BD-compliant 720p video. I do not plan to make multiple iterations of these, but if there are any errors, I will revise them for TESB and ROTJ.
I am aware that TeamBlu already made their upscale of the ANH GOUT, but this is a very different project. I’m utilizing the PAL discs (for increased resolution for ESB/ROTJ) and syncing them to the NTSC GOUT rips, and then doing very basic one-pass fix in AviSynth. The final product will look better than the actual GOUT originally did, but I do want to preserve the look and feel of the GOUT – as it’s my personal favorite home video transfer of the OOT, despite being so flawed.
Here’s my current AviSynth script for ANH (Final):
Mpeg2Source(“ANH.d2v”) #GOUT Sync
AssumeFPS(24000,1001) #GOUT Sync
DeleteFrame(144053) #GOUT Sync
Crop(0,124,0,-126,align=true) #Crop Black Bars
Levels(10,1.08,255,0,255).Tweak(hue=-6) #Black Level & Gamma
eedi2() #AA
QTGMC(Preset=“Medium”, InputType=1) #Noise Removal and Additional AA
Lanczos4Resize(1280, 542) #Scale to 720p Square
ESB (Final)
Mpeg2Source(“ESB.d2v”) #GOUT Sync
AssumeFPS(24000,1001) #GOUT Sync
DeleteFrame(150204,150205) #GOUT Sync
Crop(0,124,0,-126,align=true) #Crop Black Bars
chroma=last
a=trim(chroma,0,90887)
b=trim(chroma,90888,96324).ChromaShift(C=2)
c=trim(chroma,96325,96446)
d=trim(chroma,96447,96650).ChromaShift(C=2)
e=trim(chroma,96651,96945)
f=trim(chroma,96946,97040).ChromaShift(C=2)
g=trim(chroma,97041,97529)
h=trim(chroma,97530,106132).ChromaShift(C=2)
i=trim(chroma,106133,129145)
j=trim(chroma,129146,129574).ChromaShift(C=2)
k=trim(chroma,129575,150203)
l=trim(chroma,150204,155767).ChromaShift(C=2)
m=trim(chroma,155768,155837)
n=trim(chroma,155838,159587).ChromaShift(C=2)
o=trim(chroma,159588,159652)
p=trim(chroma,159653,163075).ChromaShift(C=2)
q=trim(chroma,163076,163145)
r=trim(chroma,163146,165306).ChromaShift(C=2)
s=trim(chroma,165307,165516)
t=trim(chroma,165517,166149).ChromaShift(C=2)
u=trim(chroma,166150,166213)
v=trim(chroma,166214,168066).ChromaShift(C=2)
w=trim(chroma,168067,168236)
x=trim(chroma,168237,168761).ChromaShift(C=2)
y=trim(chroma,168762,168849)
z=trim(chroma,168850,169402).ChromaShift(C=2)
z2=trim(chroma,169403,169484)
z3=trim(chroma,169485,169928).ChromaShift(C=2)
z4=trim(chroma,169929,170763)
z5=trim(chroma,170764,170858).ChromaShift(C=2)
z6=trim(chroma,170859,170978)
z7=trim(chroma,170979,172852).ChromaShift(C=2)
z8=trim(chroma,172853,0)
a+b+c+d+e+f+g+h+i+j+k+l+m+n+o+p+q+r+s+t+u+v+w+x+y+z+z2+z3+z4+z5+z6+z7+z8
Levels(10,1.08,255,0,255).Tweak(hue=-6) #Black Level & Gamma
eedi2() #AA
QTGMC(Preset=“Medium”, InputType=1) #Noise Removal and Additional AA
Lanczos4Resize(1280, 542) #Scale to 720p Square
ROTJ (Final):
Mpeg2Source(“ROTJ.d2v”) #GOUT Sync
AssumeFPS(24000,1001) #GOUT Sync
DuplicateFrame(141781) #GOUT Sync
DeleteFrame(68664,68665) #GOUT Sync
Crop(0,124,0,-126,align=true) #Crop Black Bars
Levels(10,1.08,255,0,255).Tweak(hue=-6) #Black Level & Gamma
eedi2() #AA
QTGMC(Preset=“Medium”, InputType=1) #Noise Removal and Additional AA
Lanczos4Resize(1280, 542) #Scale to 720p Square
Special Thanks to:
nightstalkerpoet
gforce
Chewtobacca
althor1138
yotsuya
msycamore
schorman
Comparison (Upscale Only Script vs Filtered/Upscale Script):
Final Project Specs:
ANH
VIDEO: 1280x720p H264 23.976 fps
TRACK 1) 2.0 LPCM [English] (1993 Laserdisc mix)
TESB
VIDEO: 1280x720p H264 23.976 fps
TRACK 1) 2.0 LPCM [English] (1993 Laserdisc mix)
ROTJ
VIDEO: 1280x720p H264 23.976 fps
TRACK 1) 2.0 LPCM [English] (1993 Laserdisc mix)