pittrek said:OK a few comments to the screenshots.
The Ringwraith pics look too bright, but the "VideoCollector" pics are too dark :-) Finding the perfect balance will be a tough task.
Anyway the PAL VHS captures seem to be slightly "squeezed", I wonder how will they look when you crop the black bars and stretch it to full PAL resolution (720x576 instead of 704x576)
Still the Ringwraith captures will probably nead some logo filtering, or what is that little "UFO" in the bottom right corner of the second picture ?
Fritz, did you chose the correct frames for the comparison ? I'm asking because if you check the first set, the "beam" on the first picture ends much earlier than on the second picture. I wonder if you actually used a different frame or if the PAL and NTSC sources are "positioned" differently ?
I believe the frames are spot-on. I couldn't find any other that matched better. I think maybe Ringwraith's noise reduction has taken a bite out of the laserblast?
The UFO is the old "planet" logo from the Sci-Fi channel, where these episodes were taped from.
Pittrek, my good man, I leave any post-processing of my captures to you. You may crop them and resize them as you will. :-). I too think they may look more correct when expanded to full PAL resolution. See, that's why I just want to be an external content provider on this project. Stuff like that, fiddling around with it, will take you forever. Ha ha.
Let's just give Ringwraith a sample of our captures to work his magic on, eh? He'll go to work and report his results back here, agreed?