satanika said:

Video Collector said:

I'm using a consumer DVD/Harddisc recorder that captures realtime MPEG2 to harddisk. Not an ideal solution, granted (even at the highest quality setting there is some compression-related blocking).

In my experience you can eliminate a lot of the recorder induced noise/blocking by recording for example 3 times and then averaging the captures in avisynth.

That is assuming the amateur doing the capturing can handle avisynth :-)

I have thought about this actually, but it wouldn't be first and foremost for the blocking. (The compression to fit these 2+ hour movies on a DVD5 would negate that). I believe averaging would take care of most of the tracking-related garbage as well.

The Empire boot in particular is suffering from severe telecine wobble, so I'd like to use Avisynth to stabilize the image as well. That would probably entail some minute cropping, but it's worth the tradeoff.

Also, if both averaging and stabilization were applied, the damn thing would compress better.

So, who's up for teaching me Avisynth and sending me the scripts to accomplish all this, then?