Knightmessenger said:
I don't mean the dvnr, I mean the image blur done only for the dvd release. Whatever people keep saying about why the laserdiscs have slightly more vertical detail. Wasn't it to inverse telecine? So the interlacing created from making an NTSC 29.97 fps video that on the '93 master tapes and laserdiscs, wouldn't that vary in each shot like with any interlaced video?
I don't mean the dvnr, I mean the image blur done only for the dvd release. Whatever people keep saying about why the laserdiscs have slightly more vertical detail. Wasn't it to inverse telecine? So the interlacing created from making an NTSC 29.97 fps video that on the '93 master tapes and laserdiscs, wouldn't that vary in each shot like with any interlaced video?
Interlace is different from telecine. A telecined movie was originally 24 frames/sec. The frames are split into fields and some field are repeated to go from 24 -> 30 fps (23.976 -> 29.97). So if you properly undo this you get the original 24 fps (23.976) so no blur will occur. A video that's interlaced like a home movie shot with a camcorder cannot be IVTCed. It can only be deinterlaced. It was shot at 29.97 fps so the "source" never was 24 fps. The fields that make up one frame aren't shot at the same time. What I mean is the camcorder records at 59.94 fields per second. So if you deinterlace a fast moving scene (so you put together two fields that are shot after eachother) the frame is a bit blurred.
I would never try do deinterlace/IVTC a home movie shot with a camcorder. In my opinion the interlaced video always looks better and more smooth. If you captured home movie and you want to crop/resize you can unfold the fields using avisynth, apply the filter and refold them.
The GOUT master was probably oversharpened (which probaly created the jaggies) to look better when played as a Laserdisc. And to mask the jaggies for the dvd release they probably applied a vblur.