You_Too said:
This one sure looked great for being LD-sourced! At some points it looks like the vertical resolution is even better than the GOUT. Though like you've stated before, the blacks and whites are a bit clipped but I guess they were like that on the disc(s) too?
Unfortunately yes, the clipped whites and crushed blacks are on the PAL masters, so they are present on all the laserdisc editions used on OUT ruLes (and also onto the italian VHS, by the way...).
But the scenes involved are not too much; as I wrote before, I'm thinking about replace them with the "pyramid" edition, but I still have to find the way to color correct those scenes to look like the rest of the movie - I think colourlike avisynth plugin will do a decent job.
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And now, the bad news (>_<)
First problem noted: the italian soundtrack sounds too much louder in respect to other languages... I thought I recorded it at a too high level, but that was not the case; infact, I leave the Panasonic videocassette recorder mix setting on, so the track is the result of the HIFI+mono VHS tracks! I just finished to capture and convert the right version - it will be included in the next release, but it is important only to whom is interested in the italian track, so... it's a minor bug (U_U!)
Second problem: frames from 135080 to 135087 are half darkened because in the french and english editions those frames were black, and I forgot to replace them... so the median&average script has averaged normal frames with black ones! I just corrected the error; as now the script have to average only two editions instead of four, these eight frames are a little bit lighter than the rest of the scene, but I preferred to leave this as is, because it's better to have a lighter scene one third of a second long, instead of the whole scene averaged between only two editions - and so with less quality. Also if this issue could be not considered as minor as the first, frankly I could not afford another four days conversion just for it (**O) - I'm waiting for eventual other bugs and then start a new conversion.
Waiting to discover the next mistake!