After I worked with “The Matrix” for the last two months, I developed a simple denoise+upscale script to upscale the anamorphic PAL DVD to replace shots affected with artifacts; today I was tinkering with the last improved version, and I said myself “why don’t you try it with the PAL GOUT?”… even if I know SW:ANH PAL GOUT is inferior to its NTSC counterpart, I wanted to give it a try; I took Harmy’s DE 2.1 for comparison - as it’s the “de facto” standard for the OOT ( we’ll see if negative1’s project will beat it); I know there are a lot of attempts to improve GOUT’s quality, but this is MY attempt! (^^,)

Top, Harmy’s from the AVCHD untouched, bottom, my test script - no color correction at all:

Here you are the links to the comparison test clips; I included “normal” bicubic resize as well, because (if I’m not wrong) this is the method most HDTV upscale SD material, and give you an idea of before-after; all files are 1280x1080 (1280x540x2) inside a 1920x1080 frame, 23.976fps, no sound, 8000kbps:

Tantive corridor (14.5MB each)

Harmy comparison - http://www.sendspace.com/file/5x034d

Bicubic comparison - http://www.sendspace.com/file/8e6xc3

Mos Eisley (5.5MB each)

Harmy comparison - http://www.sendspace.com/file/dzbqym

Bicubic comparison - http://www.sendspace.com/file/ypilhs

Alderaan distruction (20MB each)

Harmy comparison - http://www.sendspace.com/file/khj0dx

Bicubic comparison - http://www.sendspace.com/file/g8k72f

I’m curious how well it could do with the GOUT NTSC, or with the Technidisc laserdisc captured with the Pioneer HLD-X9… I’m starting to think to use it for my next projects, but I need your opinions about quality.

Thanks to all in advance!