csd79 said:

AviSynth ... 5-capture median, manual IVTC, rainbow & dot crawl reduction, depan, partial spot removal, noise reduction, upscaling, additional chroma denoising on selected shots AfterEffects ... color tweaks, manual dirt removal on opening credits, Kinney logo

BTW, I was wondering if you'd go into more detail on the AviSynth plug-ins used -- which ones or combinations w/ settings for each fix-up type ... that sort of thing.

There doesn't seem to be any independent sharpen. Because of the de-noising and upscaling, I would think sharpening would restore any crispness lost during those fix-ups, as well as from the LD source. My wondering was because I made that HSL reconstruction mentioned earlier (which injects DVD resolution) and found that mild sharpening brought the laserdisc image noticeably closer to the DVD. Of course, I'm using a dubious-quality paint program function. But there are AviSynth sharpeners that work without introducing such new, obvious artifacts. LimitedSharpen() is a well regarded one.

DVD (anamorphic expanded) LD (H-S) + DVD (L) = H-S-L recombination

LD restoration (anamorphic expanded) LD w/ sharpening