drngr said:
The one on Usenet is just a binary combine of the three Russian .MPG files.
There are multiple issues with that HDTV capture, some of which were discussed in the thread that spawned this one.
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Matrix-with-original-theatrical-color-timing/post/638963/#TopicPost638963
- At least a couple glitches in the recording, and the pulldown pattern changes at least once.
- There is horizontal aliasing. It looks like they took a 1440x1080 HDCAM master and resized it to 1920x1080 using point-resize. This can be fixed by downscaling and upscaling horizontally with a softer resizer. (I did that for the screenshot comparison)
- Recording stops during end credits.
- Being Super35, they cropped the sides off a bit to make the open matte transfer.
- Compression.
Thanks for this information!
I think I was able to fix the glitches with "force film" in DGIndex. It fixed four field-order transition errors.
I'll check for any combing using TIVTC later tonight.
My plan is to downscale to 720p, which should reduce some of the visible macroblocking. I haven't decided what to do about the aliasing.