Here you are the comparison:

I'm still experimentig with the script, but given the raw capture the results are good, don't you think? Which version do you prefer? (look at zoomed pictures too)

About the colors of spanish capture: you are right, they are richer than the "pyramid" LD, but are they "right"? Well, you can see also that some colors are loss due the white magic script... they could be improved if I tweak the capture color setting a little higher.

But the meaning of this thread is another: the PAL THX LDs (german, spanish, french with and without subtitles) shares the same masters, with two inherent problems, DVNR (also if not so destructive like GOUT or DC) and clipped white levels (that destroys literally white details - see the picture in the first post).

So, making a restoration based onto any PAL THX LD is wrong, as it is impossible to restore white lost details and de-DVNR the image.

Is it possible to overlay the spanish LD chroma onto the "pyramid" LD luma, but it makes any sense, as the problem of clipped white levels stay in the chroma... so if you make that way, the problem will be still present! It could be made the opposite, overlay the "pyramid" LD chroma onto the spanish LD luma; in this case, the clipped white problem is solved, but the DVNR problem will be still present...

So, at the end, the "final" solution is to use ONLY the "pyramid" LD captures to have a totally DVNR-free and color corrected (I mean without clipped whites and crushed blacks) restoration.