Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
Nerfherder said:
Ditto. Even though the source material perhaps isn't in the best of condition every bit of resolution helps. I was watching the Puggo Grande on a 110" screen last week, upscaled via an HD 1080p Epson projector. Whilst it looks fab and REALLY gives one the feel of seeing it 'for real' again (ahh those worn prints of the early 80s!) the blocking/compression in having to squeeze it onto a DVD-5 and the encoders freaking out over all the film grain and dust/scratches etc is really quite apparent. If you're going to the time & trouble of scanning in a film, might as well push the boat out with the encoding to make it as 'perfect' as possible instead of possibly having to do another transfer further down the road...
By the way, I ran a test for reel 1 of Puggo Grande last week at full SD bitrate (which would fit on a DVD9)... it's hard to say if many people would notice any difference. I was hard pressed to see any difference, but I think I saw some at the borders of horizon and sky in the desert scenes.
After I'm done with PSB, maybe I'll go back and make a HD upscaled version of PG.
It depends on how big the viewing screen is. On my laptop I didn't notice many compression artifacts, but on that 110" screen they were quite obvious. Encoders just hate constantly moving scenes, and I think those particular Star Wars 16mm prints are one of the worst examples out there with all the grain, dust, scratches and so on. It would be very cool indeed to have an HD upscaled version of the Puggo Grande to give those encoders room to encode every little spot and blemish without any artifacts - Thanks for considering it and I'll keep my fingers crossed ;)