Doctor M said:

My thoughts on the sample clips.

Well accepted as usual.

Best is the Analoclean with magicup. The Magiclean turns the noise into a frozen noise pattern that looks like your watching it through a screen door.

Agree.

You may want to find out what upscaler Dark_Jedi using on his SW project since he is getting great results.

I don't think he will share his secret...

I certainly wouldn't use bicubic when a superscaler is needed. Spline36 in a pinch. I've never heard of magicup, I'm assuming that it is a superscaler.

magicup is my own upscaling script.

The other thing is the ghosting. Not as in DNR, but as in the old analog noise. There is a double image around everything. Is that in the master or is it something in the analog equipment/wiring?

I noted this, but I don't know what could be... I should try to capture the same disc with another player, and see if it's the player; or change the cable, and see if it's the cable.

There is also another possibility: recently I replaced the old video card with a new one. Don't know if could be the case, but I read somewhere that even that could cause some interference during video capture. If this is the case, I should replace it, but I must test each model if it afflict the capture quality or not...

Seriously though, if the analoclean+magicup was your final release I'd be pretty damn happy with it. It's really clean but looks like there is still some grain. Finally, and I know it's only a short clip, but the black levels (and possibly the white level) need a bit of a tweak. It doesn't quite bottom out at 16 like it probably should.

Here you are the last attemp:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1ugrfb

grain reduced, levels adjusted, ghosting still present of course, as the capture is the same of the other test clip.

Let me know what do you think about; if only I could get rid of the ghosting problem, the final result will be spectacular, thinking about the fact that the source is a mere laserdisc.