g-force said:

-1,

you need to run the .VOB and the .mpg through DGDecode first, and load the resulting .d2v file with Mpeg2Source instead of DirectShowSource.

And you have to make sure they are the same size.

clip1 = Mpeg2Source("X:\...\...\xxx.d2v")

clip2 = Mpeg2Source("X:\...\...\yyy.d2v")

StackVertical (clip1,clip2).ReduceBy2()

The Overlay option won't work very well, because if you get them lined up correctly, it will look like just an average of both.

BTW: the results are indeed supposed to be subtle, and reducing both by 2 just makes the differences less noticable. Watch the original, note how much it jiggles, and then watch the output of the script and see how it jiggles much less, is sharper, better color, better contrast, less jaggies, etc. Please note that the script doesn't "remove" any of these problems, just lessens them without (hopefully) adding artifacts.

-G

thanks g-force, will try it out...

basically, what i wanted to see, is how much the 'jiggle', and other options affect it...

i also wanted to draw a fixed (slightly cropped) box around the original to see how much the variation is ..

thats why i wanted to try the overlay, so i could 'see' how much is stabilized....etc..............i will play around with it more..

thanks again..

later

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