More than one year ago my HD went bust, with all Star Wars related contents (LD captures and AviSynth scripts)… but few days ago I discovered a copy of my WhiteMagic script in a USB memory, and decided to give it one last try.

I used a spanish HDTV version of the 1997 Special Edition of Star Wars EP4; loaded the WhiteMagic AviSynth script into VirtualDub; and then take some totally random pictures of the results - I initially put the left half of the same frame side by side, but then decided to set them vertically to display better on this forum.

The script tries to improve the colors and the definition… maybe the colors are totally wrong, but as far as I can remember, I compared the results with many screenshots taken from the original movie frames and other reliable sources, and they match better than GOUT… maybe the resulting image is too sharp, I know, but few details are discovered…

Anyway, I’d like to know your impressions.

Here you are three screenshots - if anyone will be interested I’ll post few more:

EDIT: links to the images:

http://postimage.org/image/tjif92167/

http://postimage.org/image/fr40dfaen/

http://postimage.org/image/kr1gldg1b/

I have the Blu-Ray of the entire SW saga, sitting on the shelf still intact, because… NOOOOOO (and other little annoying things). And, apart the fact that it’s still shrinkwrapped, I have not a BD-ROM on my computer, so it is impossible for me to grab BD captures…

Anyone who has the BD would/could make a comparison between the WhiteMagic and the BD? Obviously if the BD image is way better than WhiteMagic results, I’ll quit immediately - I must confess I tried to render the whole movie, but after 2 days and 200GB of hard disk space, VirtualDub gave up!!! I don’t want to waste 4 days and near 400GB for nothing - my PC is tired enough! 😉