Also, I have had the ESIR HDTV x264 file available to me but no direct way to import it to After Effects or Adobe Premiere. I really wanted to do an "A to B" comparison of Wookie Groomer's vid VS. the ESIR x264 for optimal source clarity and have finally sucessfully done so via a conversion (River Past Video Cleaner Lite) and reconversion (VirtualDubMod) process to get the stupid file into After Effects.
I have still yet to determine if the ESIR vid will be good for what I would like to do with it (scale it up past 1920x1080 resolution to enable zooming in on a scene closer than WG's vid will allow with reasonable clarity), but preliminarily the ESIR source looks promising as it is noticeably sharper though an interesting frame-rate issue has been introduced that I will be checking into later.
I have still yet to determine if the ESIR vid will be good for what I would like to do with it (scale it up past 1920x1080 resolution to enable zooming in on a scene closer than WG's vid will allow with reasonable clarity), but preliminarily the ESIR source looks promising as it is noticeably sharper though an interesting frame-rate issue has been introduced that I will be checking into later.
Please do follow up whenever you can. I am very interested in:
1. Your conversion process
2. The results of your comparison and analysis
3. The "interesting" frame-rate issue.
For example, can you elaborate on point #3? There is something dubious (or at least confusing) about WG's WMV files, because he reports the frame rate as 23.976, but the original European fellow who is most reponsible for that material surely captured a PAL broadcast. Are you referring to a similar matter?