It's looking good!
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what is that gibberish on GKAR's picture, bottom right?!?
Yeah, there is a lot of that going on throughout, kind of ruins the experience for me. Even after running deblock/dithering filters in AviSynth it still looks poor in places.
OK, I admit SET lacks details also if its picture is enhanced, but, as explained before, it *could* be because the laserdisc player used for the captures is not the best OR the very unit I used is faulty; because the spatial alignment is not that perfect; because there are only two captures instead of three... I'm trying to find some other excuses, but maybe the missing details are due only to the fact that those laserdiscs could resolve about 544x340=184960pixels, where GKAR has 704x416=292864pixels... so GKAR DVD has about 50% more resolution than the SE laserdiscs... I'll find out the truth!
I think that's your reason right there. The broadcast versions are all anamorphic, so have much more vertical resolution than the letterboxed laserdiscs. I'd much rather watch with a 'clean' picture missing some very fine detail than one that has it but is covered with digital artifacts!
But, as you could see, no blockiness, no compression artifacts, better colors... hope to find a better capture method, to improve resolution.
Are you going to remove the awful pink tint from certain scenes on Tatooine? I've never seen a '97 release that doesn't have it.
I'm thinking about TPM [ruLes] using the (second) best laserdisc ever made, and two different copies of the laserdisc.
That would be excellent, the laserdisc has the theatrical cut, I believe, and we have the DTS audio for that also, but only a digital broadcast to sync it to.
BTW, my DTS syncs are almost prepared for you, I'll PM you when they're available.
Perfect, thanks a lot! Your work is precious for my project, really!
My pleasure, of course. Seeing as you're using PAL sources it should be easy to make your SET ruLes project conform to the 'standards' we have set in the other thread, which is basically just reel change frame numbers, and will mean any audio you create can be used for other projects (my audio has been to conformed to the numbers there), and other audio could be applied to your video (such as other language tracks) in future.
I'm also happy to lend any other assistance should you need it on the audio front ;)