zee944 said:If it's a smearing similar to color bleeding, YAHR() and other aWarpSharp tricks above may help. If it's like fieldblending (that means the trails are coming from the neighbour frames - the smearing led to four-eyed startroopers) then there are a few filters to remove this. But I don't know how to use these, so it's really just a guess. I'm just hoping you'll find some solution for that. It'd be too bad if the smearing would hold back this being the best source for having the untampered trilogy.
The smearing comes from a "dirt concealment" method that was used when the DefCol laserdisc masters were created back in '92. It had something to do with using surrounding frames to hide dirt specks, pinholes, etc. Unfortunately, it probably created more problems than it fixed.
Still, they ended up being the highest quality OOT laserdiscs available, and they used those same masters for the GOUT DVDs.