emanswfan said:
Well, I usually edit from lagarith avi converted directly from the raw m2ts file, but here I just used VLC to take snapshots, as this isn't a project I'm directly working on right now. That might be the issue, if it's not how do I make sure it's rec.709?
You could look into using AviSynth via VirtualDub, which will give you this kind of control, and in fact has all kinds of tools for colour correction without converting out of the original colour format. Your Lagarith AVI is probably still the same colour format as the m2ts, but I guess VLC is using the wrong matrix on playback.
If necessary you can convert to the correct matrix using an RGB channel mix:
r' = 1.08r-0.07g-0.01b
g' = 0.10r+0.84g+0.06b
b' = -0.01r-0.03g+1.04b
On another subject, I must say that I think you've massively over done the sharpening. Video is often a lot softer than people think, because displays (i.e. TVs) are expected to have some kind of sharpening. You'll also hurt your final compression ratios.
And yes, there is actually more detail there...
...the edges are crisp because of added detail...
I'm not clear what you really mean - adding noise may make it look more detailed, but there must be less information than before, unless you've actually gone in and painted those details in yourself.
DE