CapableMetal said:
Less certainly is more. I wish some of the studios would realise this when applying DVNR to blu-ray masters!
I'm happy I changed idea and gone into the "less is more" philosophy also about avisynth script - I always follow that philosophy when I build web sites.
I thought you were using a DVD recorder pass-through for comb filtering? I know that the s-video on my CLD-2950 is horrible compared to the composite output (which I tend to use with the "HQ Filter" off, but cannot disable it on the s-video output), I thought that was the case with most LD players, with the exception of the very best NTSC players?
When I used the composite out of the CLD-D925, I saw the rainbow effects around the white, superimposed display info; when I used the S-Video, the rainbow was not there anymore, so I think with this player the comb filter is better than my capture card. About CLD-2950, maybe, as it is older, the comb filter is not that good as the D925; and I set the HQ always off, and it stay off also using S-Video.
Watched it and its looking good, however there is a serious misalignment of one of your captures on the first shot (look at the small moon, the Tantive's engines, then the Star Destroyer). There is also a combed frame as Threepio looks up and says "What's that?".
You are a keen observer; about the misalignment, I think now it's fixed - the german capture was off only in this scene, but as it was really dark I made the wrong alignment...
About the combed frame(s): they are frames from 4663 to 4666, but they must be in the master, at least in the PAL one used with these THX laserdiscs, as they are present in all the three laserdisc editions, and in all of the several test captures I made with different players and connections, so... maybe if they are good in the NTSC SE, I could use those frames from there...
Looks great! Its difficult with the SE because all of the transfers suffer from colour issues, you're doing a nice job.
Thanks, I think it's not perfect, but surely better than the "original" pinkish!
I just stick with SetMTMode(2,0) at the start of a script which is maybe not as fast as manually assigning filters to threads but is enough of a performance boost. My scripts tend to be quite basic because I've found filters that I prefer and that do a good job, all of which seem to work nicely multi-threaded. I depends on the filters you are using and how much filtering you're doing, of course. As you say, some filters just can't benefit. I tend to use the default filter settings a lot of the time too, only changing settings if something doesn't look right (for fine adjustment). I rarely have scripts that occupy more than 30 lines, usually they're only about 10 lines, but then I haven't tried layering different sources! The results I get from the filters I use are very good, too. Sometimes keeping it simple is enough, I'm sure I read on another thread that the upscaling scripts for DJ and You_too's project was only a few lines...
I use also SetMTMode(2,0); yes, it improves speed, but I discovered that the best thing is to save the aligned/median/upscaled result (with lagarith) and then feed it to sharpener/denoiser/color correction script, and save with the preferred codec (e.g. AVC1 for the test clip). With this trick, the total processing time would be a lot less, and, I want to change something in the enhancement script, I have not to process the whole script, but only the enhancement, as the aligned/median/upscaled is saved as .avi - got the idea?
About the lenght of the aviscript: only to align the three captures, I used about 30 lines of code - more than 50 are used for OUT; for median, maybe five or six; for color correction, sharpener, denoiser, upscaler, about ten.
Right now my PC is processing another test clip; it's the same, but fixed at the beginning (hope so) and color corrected; now I must go to work, but I'll post it in the evening.
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Last thing: anybody has the french 1997 SE THX laserdisc trilogy - separate movies, not in a box, with the FRENCH audio? I'd like to add the french soundtrack...