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I've been inspired recently by some of the laserdisc captures going on here and I've decided to capture the JSC,DC,SE, and the first P&S release that I own. I am not planning on resizing or color correcting anything (even the red shift of the SE). I am not trying to sync with another release I just want to have a nice looking digital backup of my star wars laserdiscs.
I am armed with free software (avisynth,virtualdub,etc.), a usb capture card, and 3 laserdisc players of varying quality(CLD-HF9G,CLD-D505,CLD-D615).
My planned workflow is as follows:
1.) Capture YUY2(Lagarith)
2.) Splice sides together. Encode into 1 file.
3.) Field ordering(TFM). Denoising(MVDegrainmulti).
4.) Deinterlace(Qtgmc 3.32)
5.) Decimate (Tdecimate). Sharpen (maybe, not sure if it's needed or wanted yet).
6.) Crop. Addborders. (I've done this here because I wanted to deinterlace and sharpen the burned in subtitles of the JSC and then crop away all of the black areas and add them back with pure black borders. Otherwise, I would have made this step #3 or something like that.)
7.) Audio alignment.(Planning on using the raw audio files from the Laserdisc Audio Archive)
8.)Encode Mpeg-2 with high as possible bit rate. Burn to DVD.
If anybody has a better method or just wants to point out something I'm doing totally wrong please let me know.
UPDATE 03/17/2013:
I think I will make a revised list here of the steps I plan on taking so that anybody who wishes to embark upon capturing laserdiscs can get an idea of how I decided to do it and use it for themselves or improve upon it.
1.) Acquire the best Laserdisc player/capture card combo that you can.
2.) Capture the Laserdisc in YUY2 colorpsace. Try to capture with settings that don't crush or blowout information.
(YV12 colorspace messes up the chroma when you IVTC)
3.) Concatenate the sides
4.) Perform manual IVTC
(IMO automated IVTC will never do a perfect job)
5.) Set white and black levels/adjust contrast and saturation if needed.
6.) Sync audio files.
(I used an external audio file so sync was necessary.)
7.) Encode and burn to media of your choosing.
I'm sure there are many different ways to approach this but I feel like these steps are quite mandatory if you plan on digitizing a laserdisc film.
Luke threw twice…maybe.