7 hours 40 minutes to encode 4 passes.
Ok, take the screenies below with a grain of salt. In motion clips always look different than stills.
Some of the shots I chose because the chroma artifacts are reduced, but a few frames earlier artifacts might still exist because the filter is temporal and hasn't turned on yet. By and large this IS representative of the final version.
Of course the final film is anamorphic, but both shots have been resized (and deinterlaced) equivalently for comparison.
Things to look for: rainbows around edges, interference patterns on small textures, black levels, white levels.
I still chose not to use a dot crawl filter to clean up the credits because the rest of the film's detail takes a hit. There's also color bleeding that I've yet to find a method of removing.
Top is the original raw mpg capture just resized, bottom is final re-encoded dvd video.
Makes you wonder if I can improve a movie this old this much, why the heck can't George Lucas?