Original 24 frames reconstructed, 80%ish of noise from interference patterens and (edge enhancement?)/chroma artifacts removed.
Cropped and resized to anamorphic.
Black level lowered 7 points so black is black, white level brightened 20 points.
Both avisynth and virtualdubmod are being used to frameserve (I prefer different filters from each one).
Currently encoding at 500min/5130avg/8200max kbps in 4 passes with CCE 2.70 (q level one pass vbr estimate is 14, I can hit 1 if I don't use PCM audio but I will not go mpa -> wav -> DD).
Audio restoration so far is minor.
Since the audio is mono, both channels were combined and then re-split to average out any cable noise in the recording process and to equalize left/right volumes.
I'd like to remove tape hiss, but there are some really nice high frequencies in the movie that are lost in the process.
So far lead in and lead out hiss to the film is muted as well as some abruptness and popping at the side change.
More may come, but I want the video finished first.
Barring any posts on this thread from anyone besides me and Suntech, I'm not going to post any more project updates.
I feel like I'm just talking to myself.