VERY EXCITING UPDATE ;)
So, I got a little frustrated working on these "problem" episodes for the last few days and started wondering if I can possibly find any other high/decent quality source for these episodes. AND I JUST DID :)
But now I face a dilemma and was hoping for some input from you wonderful people here. Let me start off by saying, SOME of the episodes (due to no other high quality sources) have a LOGO (oh, NOOOOOO!!!!) in the lower-bottom corner of the screen, as can be seen here:
and when I initially wrote about this project, I KNEW that some of them will have this logo and there's nothing I can do about it BUT now...
Well, the dilemma is this: Do I try to clean-up the "problem" episodes just because they don't have a logo (they are a b*tch to work with, as it looks like they were telecined first (23.976p to 29.97i) then improperly transferred to PAL where they still have the NTSC duration and there are TONS of garbage frames (I figured out a new script that takes care of most of this, but there is still some ghosting here and there AND some blending here and there which means some of the "unique" frames are just missing)
OR
Do I use the properly transferred (direct 23.976p to 25i, utilizing PAL speed up, so all the original frames are actually there, I'm sure as I already downloaded a couple of these episodes and verified this) for ALL the "problem" episodes even though they DO contain the ugly logo?
There is NO difference (on average) in the video bitrate between the two different sources, so that is NOT a factor in the decision and neither is amount of time I have to invest into completing this project (although I have to say, saving some time would be nice)...
Peace,Jerry