That guy with the "white magic" claimed it was all done in avisynth but i could never get him to post his script used in the process. That doesn't really fit into the spirit of this website imo.

Layering different versions over each other is difficult but is achievable. Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that the only thing worth salvaging was the chroma from the GOUT to be overlaid onto the SE. I'm still kind of tinkering with it and have found a couple other programs that work better at image registration than avisynth.

I agree with dark_jedi on the laserdiscs. They are pretty worthless. The JSC is nice to watch because of the lack of dvnr but the level of grain makes me think it is not a good source print. Also it is next to impossible to ivtc unless you know how to manually do it. The GOUT DVD is the best there is imo. I have captured the DC, JSC, and FACES editions with the hope of attaining something to work with but it always eventually gets scrapped because of the limitations of the Laserdisc. In order to get things to look halfway decent you are going to have to filter it and in turn erase detail.