I can see the smearing throughout almost the entire films, I'm talking about the temporal smoothing of one frame to the next in an attempt to reduce the grain of the film footage before it was mastered to laserdisc, that's the sole reason I tried the 5x capture & merge thing so I end up with a cleaner capture of the laserdiscs and don't have to use temporal because they already did that and further smoothing just makes things look worse.
MeBeJedi, yeah if you try and undo the temporal smoothing you get into some serious dangerous waters, like how would the algorhythm differentiate between normal motion bluring and added temporal bluring, I've never heard of it being achieved.
If I had the money/resources I'd be looking into doing an 8mm transfer of my own, but I don't so I'm stuck with the smeared laserdiscs
