Rectified the colour saturation issue. I had used the same capture settings for each side, so I don't know how side 3 came to look so de-saturated but 1, 2 and 4 were OK. Anyway, I've checked frames containing red lights with a vectorscope tool to ensure a uniform level of saturation that doesn't clip. As before, I've left the hue dead centre. If you're used to the Dr Gonzo version you may feel like turning the colour up, but I'd suggest, if your display is properly calibrated, my version is a more accurate representation of how the laserdisc is supposed to look.
Watching the new encode, the video is as good as the ANH disc, generally it's lovely to watch - the halos and a bit of dot crawl are still there but not noticeable on my 28" w/s CRT TV. And this time there are no missing sections in the side changes!
I did notice some dropped lines that hadn't been caught by the filter. There's now a new version of DeScratch which means that I can tune the detection more accurately; after a bit more tweaking, I checked 5 frames known to have line drops and they've all been fixed.
Another issue I noticed; remember the blocks occaisionaly caused as a side effect of the noise reduction filter? (Look carefully at the ANH disc, in the smoke left behind after Greedo buys the farm.) I didn't hear of anyone noticing the blocks in ANH, but in one scene in TESB the effect is quite bad. So I've now added in a block-blurring filter, just over these few affected frames.
Here we go then for the final 48-hour processing/encoding session...