SS4DarthPayne said:
I'll be the first to admit that this project is not for me, but I think it's great how much you care about what you're doing. I think you hit the nail on the head, talking about how you've done this with comparatively simple tools and free software, as compared to Lucasfilm and all of their resources. I must also admit I am quite surprised at how well (more or less), it holds up to the GOUT.
Thank you, SS4DarthPayne, you hit the point... today is possible to restore a movie at home, using free software and really cheap hardware, with really high quality results - see Harmy's work and many others.
My project isn't perfect, but I started it for two reasons: I wanted a better GOUT version (also with italian language) AND I wanted to prove myself that I could do it. Maybe more for the second reason than the first one...
If only GL wanted to do something like this, with only a small fraction of the devotion of all the fans of his movies found here... with his money, he could reach top results... but instead... he spent dozen million $$$, and what we have is BD version, at the end! /_xx/
You_Too said:
Yeah it looks good compared to the GOUT there, but for the comparisons it would be even better with the NTSC GOUT for SW, since it's got more detail preserved than the PAL version for some reason.
And the sharpening in your version seems a bit too strong maybe. And why is it only vertical sharpening? At least that's what it looks like.
I'm still thinking what results can be achieved nowadays, using a simple laserdisc as source... some years ago, these kind of results were possible only for production houses, and mere mortals could only dream about them!
You_Too, sorry, I live in Italy, one of the PAL lands... I have not access to the GOUT NTSC, but if someone could point me to the m2v file I'll be happy.
By the way, also if the NTSC GOUT has more details, at least the PAL GOUT *should* have more lines of resolution...
Yes, the sharpening seems too strong, but when seen in action is better; download the clip and tell me what do you think. On my 55' LED, it's good.
I'm thinking about the next step... making the same treatment I've done until here, but using the NTSC captures of the Definitive Collection (US, two copies, and Japanese) plus "Faces", and the Pioneer HLD-X9 as the laserdisc player... (using all the scenes not affected by the DVNR, of course) and then merging the result with the result of the PAL captures... what do you all think?