AntcuFaalb said:

althor1138 said:

I'm sure it helps out in some situations but in this case it just adds layers of complication with no real benefit.

I agree. There are two options for doing capture averaging/median without artifacts or resolution loss:

1 Process the captures shot-by-shot (or even frame-by-frame)

2 Get an amazing image registration program to do the work for you

I think the best solution, for now, is to do one excellent capture and work on fixing drop-outs and speckles (that aren't on the source) manually.

I think imagej using bunwarpj or something newer would actually do a great job at registration and could be easily automated and incorporated into an avisynth script via the call command. I think the downside to that approach is that you have to do at least 2 colorspace conversions before encoding and it would take anywhere from 10 seconds to 10 minutes per frame depending on your accuracy settings.

I think I'm about to start playing around with my cheaper cld-d505 tonight and see what results it produces. It looks less noisy but I'm pretty sure that's because the composite is filtered and recombined.

Still waiting on the Video Essentials to arrive. The guy pretty much lied to me about mailing it and only now is shipping it out. If it ever does arrive I'll be posting some stuff in the Laserdisc screenshot comparison thread to hopefully get some more definitive feedback on which of the 3 players I should be using for capture. I do think the HF9G will probably produce the best results but as Moth3r said earlier the real proof will come from a captured test signal pattern or some colorbars.