The 23.976 IVTC process is very simple, once you wrap your brain around what you are actually doing. As you can see, it was definitely worth the effort. High-motion spaceship fly-bys ROCK!
My original uncompessed RGB capture of ANH came out at 180GBs. It would have eaten your hard drive and your cat.
Luckily, two things happened. 1) Costco had sales on Maxtor hard drives ($130 for 160GB, $180 for 250 GB), and 2) laserman introduced me to the wonderful word of HuffyUV, which cut my capture size in half! (with better color fidelity as well) Once I was able to make captures with no dropped frames (which took a lot of tinkering), everything else was pretty straightforward."ETA: Niiiice. Did you have to any work on color balance, or was the Faces Set that good to begin with? These encodes look less washed out than the Definitive versions/"
Honestly, it didn't take much. I keep screwing around with brightness/contrast, and finally realized that just dropping the brightness made the best improvement. As you can see from my earlier pic, my DVD capture was darker than my AVI master. My biggest goal was to get "space" as dark as possible, without losing too many stars. Everything else just kinda fell into place once I found that right balance.
People can "ooh and aah" all they want about the Def. Col. (which I also have), but the Faces set is no small potatoes by any stretch. You won't find one website that gives the CAV process a huge visual advantage over the CLV process in anything other than viewing individual frames, at least in regards to the Star Wars films. Believe me, I've looked. (BTW, the last third of the Faces set is in CAV. You know, the "armada" scene?
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