AntcuFaalb said:

That's Release v1.1 ;-) Here's what I plan to do:

Release v1.0: Median2() of the five captures, but otherwise unaltered (w/ any of the five captures available upon request).

Release v1.1: Resized v1.0 with gentle filtering; e.g., cropping and possibly some brightness/contrast, HSV, and levels tweaking if the general consensus of the people here is that it's needed.

This entire process will be very transparent and community-led. I may have the PS78 VHS, but it's really our responsibility to preserve the magic it contains.

As you know, an ad hoc committee is forming in #OriginalTrilogy. Is anyone against making this a bit more formal for PS78?

I'd say keep an unfiltered release in reserve in case you later want to scale back any changes you made (i.e. do the opposite of George Lucas). Also i'm guessing if you capture the best spread of information at the capture stage the less you will need to do after, which it sounds like you are planning to do in earnest. I'd be wary of making this project too formal that it becomes a chore for you - i'd say the only responsibility on this is don't chew up the tape - and getting all that original colour goodness out would be a bonus