Thanks for the feedback Moth3r. :)
Moth3r said:
I got the chance to scan through your SW disc the other day.
While you've made some very interesting choices wrt the colour grading, personally I wouldn't choose to watch SW this way. My main issue is the brightness; it's almost as though you've attempted to match the photos taken of the screening exactly, even those that are obviously overexposed.
Also, I was grabbing some screenshots to put up on my Custom DVD comparison page, and DGIndex complained about detecting a bad field order transition. You mentioned that you used different settings for the binary sunset scene - how did you go about encoding the different elements? I'm wondering if you used some sort of MPEG2 editor to combine the shots, and that caused this. I don't know, however, if this would cause any real issue with playback.
I have to say for me working in 23.976fps was a nightmare, I started off by using DGIndex with force film checked to create a D2V file from a copy of the NTSC GOUT DVD on my HDD. DGIndex reported one frame-count I then used VirtualDub to open G-Forces AviSynth script which I had modified (Removed Levels & Hue Commands as well as adjusting the NNEDI2, Crop, Spline16Resize & AddBorders Commands to upscale to 2048x1152)
This was where I started to get a headache as VirtualDub reported a different frame-count to DGIndex! I tried re-creating the D2V file but this didn't fix the problem, so I went ahead and exported the AVI using HuffYUV and Fast Re-compress. I then imported the AVI into Final Cut Pro which once again reported a different frame-count. I used Final Cut Pro to export the AVI as a QuickTime Movie using the Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) Codec.
I then imported this QuickTime Movie into a Final Cut Pro timeline put in some cuts and then used the "Send To" option to send the timeline to Apple Color which I used to apply the colour grading. I rendered the Colour Grading in Color. I then used the "Send To" option in Apple Color to send the colour corrected timeline back to Final Cut Pro. I then shared the timeline from Final Cut Pro to Compressor which I used to export a QuickTime Movie using the ApplePro Res 422 (HQ) codec and downscaling from 2048x11152 to anamorphic 720x576 (1024x576 actual). I then used Compressor to create the M2V file from this QuickTime Movie.
I have not had any of these framecount issues when using DGIndex & AviSynth/VirtualDub on several 25fps DVDs. Perhaps I have missed something in either DGIndex or VirtualDub/Avisynth any advice as always would be welcome and appreciated! :)