Originally posted by: eros
changing ld ripped video to anamorphic will degrade picture detail and sharpness. Let me present to you images A and B.
A:
B:
Image A is the raw capture from the laserdisc, borders cropped, with noise reduction and sharpening filters applied.
Image B is the same frame, noise filtered, sharpening filter, upsampled to anamorphic resolution, encoded to MPEG-2 (this frame is taken from the first pass, so is not even the finished encode), borders cropped and finally resized back down to it's original resolution.
Now tell me how much the picture is degraded.
Originally posted by: Warp99
BTW I noticed a linedrop in frame# 1030 in the sample, it's right in the middle of the picture, maybe you already fixed it...
No, I left that in to give the DVD an authentic laserdisc feel...changing ld ripped video to anamorphic will degrade picture detail and sharpness. Let me present to you images A and B.
A:
B:
Image A is the raw capture from the laserdisc, borders cropped, with noise reduction and sharpening filters applied.
Image B is the same frame, noise filtered, sharpening filter, upsampled to anamorphic resolution, encoded to MPEG-2 (this frame is taken from the first pass, so is not even the finished encode), borders cropped and finally resized back down to it's original resolution.
Now tell me how much the picture is degraded.
Originally posted by: Warp99
BTW I noticed a linedrop in frame# 1030 in the sample, it's right in the middle of the picture, maybe you already fixed it...
Seriously, there are literally hundreds of little spots and lines on the capture; some are off the actual film when it was transferred to the laserdisc, others are caused by dust or scratches on the disc surface when I did the capture. I considered using a despot filter to try and remove some of it, but I was worried that it might have a detrimental effect on other aspects of the video, e.g taking out twinkling stars because the filter thinks they're laserdisc defects. (I'm very proud of my beautiful starfield, I even think it looks better than the official retail DVD). And I have neither the time nor the software to go through frame-by-frame and remove the defects manually...