Moth3r said:
ChainsawAsh said:
Well, after doing some tests with both versions, it seems that fixing the combing artifacts in the 480p file yields better results than fixing them in the 576p file. So I'm going with that.
That doesn't make sense to me. If the source is an interlaced PAL frame with 576 lines, the odd and even fields are separate (as a crude deinterlacing method, you could "dumb" bob - through away one field and in recreate the missing lines by interpolation).
However if the interlaced source has already been downscaled to 480 lines, then the fields will have been merged together during the vertical resizing, making them much harder to separate.
Honestly, I don't know why deinterlacing the 480 version works better than the 576, but that's why I tested it using both. Anytime I ran across an unsolvable issue with the 480-sized version, I tested the same spot on the 576 and got the same thing. Must be something to do with the fact that the film was originally a 480 project that was upscaled to 576.
Moth3r said:
Maybe you should have approached it as "here's how you can fix your own disc" rather than "here's what I've done, anyone interested in a copy"?
Perhaps. The thing is, it's not exactly a simple process. My method requires Final Cut Studio on a Mac and slowly going through the film shot by shot multiple times in order to manually correct its issues. It's not a "run it through program A, then program B, then you're done" type thing.