Tweaker Said:
"I think you should lighten up on the color levels a bit. I'd have to dig out my DVDs to check, but is he really that red?"
No, I'm going to do some serious leveling and color correction once I get everything cut together in Vegas. The pic I posted was when I was figuring out how to set black/white levels in Avisynth, and I actually just stole the levels right out of X0's Star Wars guide. Thank you, X0!
Also, if you could post your HD screenshots of any of the frames I've already posted, I'm sure we'd love to compare the cropping with the R2 DVD and TV caps. On the other hand, that HD is so pretty it's going to make me sob when I have to watch deleted scenes from VHS
Jaiman Tuckuh said:
"The color artifacting looks like it might be a sync timing problem from the broadcast chain. There are filters for those color problems, but I don't know much about them, offhand."
Here's a sequence of screenshots that leads me to believe it's an IVTC problem:
The two frames on either side of this cut still show field blending.
...and the same goes for anything with high motion, like the guard's head:
(although it's harder to see)
Unfortunately, this may be the least of my 3:2 problems. Since I need one project frame rate (I can't mix 24 frame and 30 frame sources), I either need to IVTC all of them or none.
"Did you capture from Encore directly to DV, or was is from a tape?"
DV, directly to my Hard Drive.
"I wonder if there's anyone with a PAL vcr, a TBC, and a good capture setup, who could recapture from Lorang's tape, if he's willing to send it to them?"
I'd love to see screenshots comparing Llorang's to ReverendBeastly's. We established earlier that Llorang's was best, but then found out ReverendBeastly's screens were from a poor quality dub, and his current one is comparable to Llorang's.
"If you don't want to delay things by doing the compositing bit, or if it turns out to be a lot of work, due to color-correction, or whatever, then you're the boss. But I hope you might give it a try."
I will. No logos would be ideal, but I'm skeptical that it would work. I just tried it with my DV cap and the scene Llorang posted from his VHS, and his version is zoomed in a way that would require me to zoom in on my DV image to composite them together.
EDIT: I needed to slow Llorang's down to 98% to sort-of match cap, which means Llorang's is actually FASTER than mine (as PAL should be). My bad.