then I can use my filters, colour correction etc to bring the footage up. Russ15 knows what my filters can do after I showed him some samples from when I fiddled with the editdroid version.
Yo can not add picture information where there is nothing.
I never said that. I'm not saying I'm adding picture information. what I can do is sharpen the image, improve contrast and brightness. saturation and color correct and then present a better looking image. I've already run tests on this and its possible.
besides, you're using a spurious argument because XO project team have PROVED picture detail can be recovered from the LD transfers 'ie the starfields.
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of course. all the work being done by X0 project is relevant because as the LD and the new OUT DVD is struck from the same master tapes, then the footage suffers from the same problems of dirt, grain, damaged frames etc.
No, because they are hand-fixing these problems. I believe that in the end, the X0 transfer will look better than the official DVD´s. They are working with raw uncompressed images while when workind with the DVD, you have to re-compress everything, introducing more digital artifacts.
yeah, they're hand fixing problems. so what? if the OUT DVD is taken from the same mastertapes, then it will suffer from the same spotting, splicing problems, etc just like the DE LD's they've captured from. therefore, if its framed the same, they can apply the same changes to it and recover the same detail, and correct the same way.
they're working with raw uncompressed images? really. yeah uncompressed from an analogue capture which in its own turn can introduce artifacting of its own depending on the equipment used. they're using the XO machine which is top notch to eliminate this issue but it won't be completely gone.
and like I've said. the OUT DVD will a few steps closer to the original film material than the LD captures are.
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so, while this release isn't exactly top, we were already adjusting non anamorphic LD to be anamorphic, so nothing changed there, we have an original source to look at.
Again: YOU CAN NOT ENHANCE THE PICTURE QUALITY BY UPSCALING A NON-ANAMORPHIC FRAME TO ANAMORPHIC.