the slightly more grainy but more natural image is what I've been aiming forI've discovered I can merge the 5 captured avis of a single side into a 7gb huffy file, repeat for the other 3 sides so then I'll have a 'core' capture avi to work with to then encode to XviD & DVD, which is great as this makes things a lot more easier because I thought I might have to encode the final outputs a half hour (side) at a time because of space constraints.
Just testing capturing the intro from my definitive set to then colour/brightness/contrast match to the German THX set to replace the German titles, a few things that I've noticed are the framing of the two sets, the German set is zoomed in slightly more during the opening shot, also how detailed and not-overly bright the German THX set is compared to the definitive set, lastly the definitive set seems to have less temporal smoothing applied to it than the German THX set.
But overall I prefer the higher detail level of the German THX set to the definitive set, just a shame it's almost totally in German and have to use definitive set clips, thinking about getting the French THX set for the original English titles & subtitles... ! (as if I haven't already spent enough money getting to where I am now)