Originally posted by: s7en
Very nice looking screengrabs. Are they from before or after mpg2 encoding? They have not been encoded into MPEG-2; I took the output after post-processing, cropped the borders and resized the image to natural aspect ratio, then saved as JPEG with a high-quality setting.
Originally posted by: s7en
The only point for criticism I can see is the red behind c3po looks a bit noisey, and seems to have a bit of a moire pattern running through it. Is this a casualty of dot crawl or a problem in the original source? And more importantly, how does it all look on a tv?
I'm not sure on the technical details of why pure reds are so problematic. Bear in mind it looks worse on a monitor than on a TV, and I am using only light noise reduction so as to keep detail intact.Very nice looking screengrabs. Are they from before or after mpg2 encoding? They have not been encoded into MPEG-2; I took the output after post-processing, cropped the borders and resized the image to natural aspect ratio, then saved as JPEG with a high-quality setting.
Originally posted by: s7en
The only point for criticism I can see is the red behind c3po looks a bit noisey, and seems to have a bit of a moire pattern running through it. Is this a casualty of dot crawl or a problem in the original source? And more importantly, how does it all look on a tv?
I've just noticed that shot shows some minor ghosting (there is a faint shadow of Luke's face from the previous frame); this is present on the raw capture before post-processing. I think I've read somewhere that the Def. Collection laserdiscs had similar defects, I believe it's due to digital noise reduction applied to the video master that the laserdiscs were pressed from.