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They use it as if it were one, at least. Not sure it’d hold up if challenged, though.

1.75:1. I guess that makes sense, given that that’s what Disney had been doing for some time by then.

Well, that I do believe I have - and have done it more than once.

😕.

Well, the audio is probably fixable, in the same way as the laserdisc audio, unless they raw-over-dubbed it with the DVD or BD…

The only nonpublic tracker I have an account on’s the Spleen, but this is something I’d be digging, especially if it CUTS OFF MY EAR…

The novelization, at least.

I didn’t say there was no point to scanning a 35 of those movies, I said there was no point to scanning a 35 at 4K.

I don’t think there’d be a point to 4K for anything past Little Mermaid (I think the CAPS films were rendered at 2K) but even 2048x1234, which should be close to the native resolution, should be an improvement, since it’d be the original theatrical versions, unlike the official releases.

Yikes. And I complain at 36C.

I was self-censoring, for what it’s worth.

Our objection is YOU’RE SELLING THEM AT ALL YOU DOHO (not you)

Command line unrar works fine for no cost…

I’d prolly donate if I had more money to throw around, but money’s always tight and around December it’s usually at its tightest. But when it’s all done and manages to make its way out into the world, I’ll try to make myself useful.

Basically, yeah. RPow2 is the only thing it doesn’t do, and that’s specifically an upscaling filter.

I read the script before commenting 😉

The bulk of it’s just Spline36Resize and AWarpSharp2… and I already use debanding filters on everything I encode, and ColorMatrix on everything I upscale, and a function to simplify the use of MDegrain2 is part of my arsenal (in fact I used it on an mp4 encode of the SSE of Star Wars, as well as on my DBZ encodes).

The current filter chain I seem to prefer for upscaling anime is a variant of nnedi3_rpow2(2).ColorMatrix(mode="Rec.601->Rec.709").Spline36Resize(1280,720).AWarpSharp2(depth=10)

Oh, it just uses Spline36Resize and AWarpSharp.

This is why I only use 7-bit ASCII filenames. -_-; My own copies are called, literally, anh.ts, esb.ts and rotj.ts.

The best filter I’m aware of is nnedi3_rpow2…

Given that my laserdisc rip is made with poor quality equipment, I think I’d rather hold out for a better source than that before trying to despecialize Mewtwo Strikes Back… as big as the difference would be between a 1080p and 372i source, that would be exacerbated by a cheap laserdisc player and a bottom-of-the-line DVD recorder. 😦

I didn’t… but I did release a laserdisc rip some time ago.

Avisynth has a Stab() filter, but I’ve only really ever used it on anime, so I don’t know how well it would work on a live-action film.

😃

I’ve honed my skills working on Detective Conan, where it’s frequent for an old episode to be aired remastered, but with a few scenes cut and the theme songs replaced with the current ones, or where occasionally it will be necessary to mix sources to work around news flashes and such on the TV rips. A lot of the same stuff goes into it that would go into despecializing Star Wars, so I figured I’d give it a new whack now that I have some actual experience.

Thanks, poita. 😃 And since I know you’re working on the 97SE of ANH, I’ll take you up on that - it might be the first we see of the 97SE in HD. (This is the version I saw in cinema, so it does hold some special place for me even though I prefer the pre-SE.)

I’m actually considering whether it would be worth working at full BD resolution for this one. I think that’s about 1920x820. That’s all I’d probably need - but I’ll probably take a little at a time, and keep the rest stored elsewhere (my friend has much more disk space than I do).

I think the next thing I need to do is get the actual BD (the latest version I have legit is the 06 DVD for ANH and 04 for all; for now, I’m using WOWOW rips, and can plug in the BD later).

I’m in no rush - kinda waiting on 4K77 to be my source for original unmodified footage anyway.

ETA: Most likely I’ll work in short bits, scene by scene, and first learn my enemy by putting the different versions side by side. Then when I’ve decided what to do, I’ll write it into the final code. With the flip of a switch I might be able to create a full despecialization or a 97SE despecialization.

Don’t mind, I speak jumbly already. XD The idea was to take the BD version, then roll it back to the 04, then roll it back to the 97SE, then roll it back to the OTVs - a progressive despecialization using everything available.

For example in ESB I would probably use 97SE footage of the Emperor, and I’d use some 97SE footage of the end of ROTJ, if enough of it survived to blend in with Yub Nub. And if 97 footage is higher quality, also, so be it.

IIRC, Harmy didn’t use any 97 sources. There may be places where doing so could be an improvement (e.g., ESB’s Emperor scene).

As having wanted to despecialize Star Wars myself I don’t see a conflict with there being 2 different versions in the future (and if I release such a thing it’ll be called “Rolled Back” rather than “Despecialized”, so there’s not going to be any name confusion). I don’t think my approach will be the same as his, so the results could be better, worse, or both. I’m mainly doing it for practice.

I haven’t seen any version of Despecialized - I pretty much stayed with straight GOUT until the SSE came out.