I haven't read enough on how cinema craft handles the average when the range is so great. I really want to constrain the average bitrate to the haighest possible value. I may try to lower my min and raise my average. I noticed on the new set, they average 8 to 8.5 with the occasional 11.3.
Once again these are value I will play with with the goal being the highest possible average & the least amount of artifacts. The artifacts showing up in the new set sets me off. I know this software compression won't be better but I'll try to let the problems reside in my image quality not me compression methods.
On another note:
I will admit that I need to become educated on non-interlace video and the animorphic stuff. All I have ever done has been NTSC /interlaced/4:3
Did you capture the video in 4:3 and cropped it in another program?
Also, how does the dvd standard handle non-interlaced video?
Oh are these laserdisc player video at a film or standard video(29.97) frame rate?
Thanks & I look forward to reading over all of you posts. I've seen your capture card specs and the mpeg 2 compressor you are using & am very impressd with the stills you have posted. You should look into getting Cinema Craft to get a bit more quality out of your compression. They have a free trail version you can download for testing purposes. Also if you google pdf files you can find a user manual online. There are a ton of settings to play with including the handling of the conversion of film frame rate to video.
Thanks again & take care,