I did these late at night in my old school's editing lab. The player and capture device I had access to wasn't the greatest and the Macs fought me every step of the way. I didn't have time to really go through them frame by frame so on some of the discs there are a few glitched frames here and there.(by this I mean frames that appear as color blobs/bars/snow and sometimes with a brief audio dropout etc.)
I'd like to redo these with my own player as soon as I build my own editing PC. (If I can ever save up enough! ;)
If you'd like to have the ones I did finish that's no problem, but they are very very rough. I tried all kinds of things on these transfers just to see what was possible on the software I could use. Each is a dual layer, hand scaled 16:9 disc. I did the scaling by hand because I couldn't get measurements to look right and I wanted to not crop any part of the frame-especially on the 1.66:1 titles. Gosh, that was a nightmare trying to measure and anamorphicize!
The IVTC I chose looks good for the most part, but I'm not really happy with the overall picture. The sound was originally to be PCM but I couldn't get an authoring that would work so I just encoded everything at 448 ac3. Dolby Surround titles are encoded as such.
Work chain: Imported LD and digital audio into Final Cut Pro in a lossless DV codec, cut together with any dropouts fixed with VHS if necessary, Scaled to fit a 16:9 anamorphic sequence, Exported as lossless quicktime mov, converted to Apple ProRes 422HQ, brought into Compressor and exported at maximum bitrate and Dolby ac3 @ 448 kbp/s (Surround encoded if necessary) with Reverse Telecine, DVD built and encoded in DVD Studio Pro to an .img file.
Titles done: (Dual Layer, 16:9, Trailers+Logos included if present)
Connery Collection Vol. 1: 1.66:1, 2.0 mono@448 kbp/s
SW Trilogy 97 SE+Doc: 2.35:1, 2.0 Dolby Surround encoded@ 448 kbp/s
The Spy Who Loved Me-1991 LD-2.35:1, 2.0 Dolby Surround encoded@ 448
You Only Live Twice-1989 LD-2.35:1, 2.0 mono@448
Chinatown-1993 LD-2.35:1, 2.0 mono, 2.0 isolated score@448