Putting this new script aside for a moment, here are my latest results, which should mark the end for my current hardware setup as my new stuff will be coming in this coming week:

http://www.aptirrelevance.com/videoprojects/images/thANH.toot.d5000.01.jpg

ANH.toot.d5000.02

ANH.toot.d5000.14

(more screenshots on the web site)

I think these are my best results so far. As you can see, these shots are not oversaturated and there is a bit more detail since my raw capture was not as dark.

I started with a more neutral capture setting in VirtualVCR, then captured all three ANH LD's and TooTed them together. Then in AVIsynth I cropped the video down to size, and used Laserschwert's second de-ghost method:

v1=AviSource("e:\zion.avi").ConvertToYUY2.GuavaComb(mode="NTSC").SeparateFields.SelectEvery(10,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,9).Weave.AssumeFPS(23.976)

v2=v1.crop(4,0,0,0).AddBorders(0,0,4,0, color=$FFFFFF).blur(.5)

v3 = overlay(v1,v2, opacity=0.2, mode="Darken") # remove only bright halos

return v3

Then in VDubMod I IVTC'd, resized to 2x and ran the MSU smart sharpen and denoise filters, then resized back to 720x274. From there, color corrected each shot individually with Adobe Premiere. Then resized to anamorphic back in AVIsynth.

I know there's a lot of dot crawl in these caps. I was switching between GuavaComb and DeDot and I think I had them both disabled when I did my final save.

So what do you guys think? When my new LD player and capture card get here, I'll be doing another capture like this, only I shouldn't have to do any deghosting or noise filtering.