non-anamorphic. nope, sorry, won't happen. takes too long for my machine to render out the avi file as it is, I'm not going to be able to get that past the wife twice.
I wouldn't say mine is the best to be honest. for a start, mverta is gonna kill all our efforts stone dead some day, already has to some extent. I would still say Zion , mebejedi and Moth3r have the edge, purely because they are capturing on better kit than I did.
mine was done two years ago from the DE set on a Pioneer 515 player into a VIVO Geforce 1 card. the whites and highlights are a bit blown out on my capture and that detail is lost, never to return. I did it two years ago and having seen the likes of Zion's and others, mebejedi for example, my capture lacks in some areas. all I'm doing now is polishing a turd really.
I do have empire and jedi's raw capture, but not ANH, I lost it in a partition crash. all this work has been done using an AVI'd version of my original encodes M2v file. yup, I'm re-encoding an mpeg of my original capture. so I am starting two generations down from the source.
the compensating factor here is how the filters have improved in the last two years.
big thanks to zion and laserschwert, without your input I'd never have found sangnom.
sangnom fixed the jaggies big time, seriously, use that filter.
msu smart sharpen is entirely responsible for the detail you now see. the top screenies illustrates how I oversoftened my source capture and lost lots of edge detail. I used pixiedust for that originally and while it killed the mosquito noise, it also buggered a lot else. on my TV it looks a bit soft, but the new MSU smart sharpened version kicks ass.
it makes me mad though, I am sorely tempted to buy another laserdisc player, buy the discs again and do it all over again. I know I could do a better job of it.
instead I am going to try and DE SE the DVD next time and do what I can that way.