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Hey there!
Inspired by a lot of the restoration attempts for the OT here I've recently aquired a copy of the NTSC CAV Definitve Collection Box and now I'm looking for a suited player for playing them back and a capture card to digitize them. I'm doing this just for the fun of it and I don't wanna spend huge amounts of money on this little project, but I guess there might be others out there who want to the same, so I thought I'd start a brainstorming thread to collect the knowledge about it.
1) What Player to use. Sure, there are the X-Players (X0, X9), but they are almost out of anybody's reach price- and availability-wise. And since the picture undergoes digital processing afterwards anyway, is there any use to use a player that comes with all sorts of filters or would it be better to use one that outputs the composite signal without any processing? Pure or pimped, what do you think? I think the LD9 or the V8000 would do a good job, am I wrong? I might be wrong, but with the tools available today (AfterEffects plugins, AviSynth, etc) a high quality 3D-comb-filter seems rather redundant to me. And using the RGB output is supposedly not the purest way of capturing the video since it's stored on the LD in composite format and then transformed Chroma/Luma separated inside the player to conform it to RGB, am I right?
2) What capture cards are suited for the job? I'm thinking about getting a Blackmagic Design Intensity card for the job, it supposedly works very well with Final Cut Studio 2 and has great quality A/D converters.
3) What codec/resolution to capture in? I'm thinking about capturing in NTSC resolution at 480i/29,97fps, the pulldown will then be removed after capture, obviously. I'd like to use ProRes422 on my MAC, with post-processing done scene-wise uncompressed 4:4:4 on both Windows and MacOSX.
4) Up-converting to HD. Sure, there isn't too much resolution on the LDs to begin with, however, I'd like to have a BluRay25 with some offline-rendered upconversion instead of a DVD that's being upconverted to my display-size in real-time. There must be some benefit of doing it that way. What kinda up-scaling algorithms would you prefer? I recently discovered a Shareware program called VideoEnhancer which does a pretty good job, at least I thought so, until I compared the output with of Lanzcos4Resize and it made no difference whatsoever? Any thoughts on that?
5) Multi-pass. I heard Max_Rebo saying on the V8 thread that there's a way to use multi-pass capture to decrease analog noise. How's that done? And can the same be done to increase the detail-level of the capture?
6) Things not yet considered. Any input?
Shoot (first) guys, I'm really interested in how YOU would do it!
