Originally posted by: THX
Well, that might give him the edge.

No comment on the luma/chroma thing?

We looked at doing a lot more than just that.
The SC is very detailed but has quite a bit of video noise. Most of the noise however is in the chroma channel.
Using Shake you can track the two different video captures and warp the chroma from one to match the luma from the other.
This allows you to take a relatively clean chroma from the source with good chroma and layer it into the relatively clean and more detailed luma from the other capture.
But you don't have to stop there, once you have a way to align multiple captures you can start to do other things, like take advantage of the different exposure levels and the different aspects (different noise, dropouts, dirt and scratches etc.) of separate transfers and combine them in a way to try and get a final product that is more than the sum of its parts so to speak.

There are also some other interesting discoveries we made re the particular noise signature of some of the laserdiscs.